phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
on 28 Apr 16:53
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Unfortunately, I can. 30% of Americans are actively antiscience/reality and they for sure enforce it on their kids. Another 40% honestly don’t give a fuck and again show that apathy to their kids. Leaves 30% who care but doesn’t exclude those who are limited by socioeconomics.
You talk to people and realize their parents never drove them out of the light pollution late at night to see a meteor shower or comet pass by never showed them any of the constellations, etc. Applies to all science really but astronomy is often put on the wayside even more than others because a lot of people really aren’t curious about space anymore. We’ve seen this with NASA funding since the end of the Apollo missions.
You are perfectly fine, the world has gone crazy and you feel it
BurnedDonutHole@ani.social
on 28 Apr 16:58
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They always say insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results yet we respect meteorologist about how the weather would be everyday and plan our days accordingly. Science is not just towards everything. System is rigged :-p
You’re not entirely wrong, but it’s still a slap in the face to all the progress that has been made in the last 50 years for women in stem recognition.
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Perspective is everything, perception is reality.
My physics teacher was a hobbyist astronomer, on the morning of my birthday I got to watch mercy sun transit through his telescope.
Edit: Wikipedia link describing what I saw in the telescope: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Mercury
If you had something else in mind please get your head out of the gutter.
Is… this a euphemism for sex? Lol. If not, it should be.
Eyy bby, want some planetary star transits?
No that’s an actual astronomical event
Did he also fix it for you to milk a cow blindfolded?
No, that’s not related to astronomy
This is a great template for so many things
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This meme-template should be titled something like "the modern education system"
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‘staring into space’ for the kid could also mean zoning out/not paying attention
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Unfortunately, I can. 30% of Americans are actively antiscience/reality and they for sure enforce it on their kids. Another 40% honestly don’t give a fuck and again show that apathy to their kids. Leaves 30% who care but doesn’t exclude those who are limited by socioeconomics.
You talk to people and realize their parents never drove them out of the light pollution late at night to see a meteor shower or comet pass by never showed them any of the constellations, etc. Applies to all science really but astronomy is often put on the wayside even more than others because a lot of people really aren’t curious about space anymore. We’ve seen this with NASA funding since the end of the Apollo missions.
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I think they mean “staring into space” as in “staring into the distance during class”
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This actually made me tear up. What the fuck is wrong with me?
You are perfectly fine, the world has gone crazy and you feel it
They always say insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results yet we respect meteorologist about how the weather would be everyday and plan our days accordingly. Science is not just towards everything. System is rigged :-p
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You’re not entirely wrong, but it’s still a slap in the face to all the progress that has been made in the last 50 years for women in stem recognition.
Haha I wish being an astronomer involved staring at the sky instead of staring into a computer screen…
My weird ass gifts have kept me from dying, I guess. I’m just waiting for my medal now.
… Any day now…
I don’t think the author have any idea at all about what astronomers actually do…