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    I lead stargazing classes with my city parks, and I can tell you that it’s pretty much impossible to find earth in the night sky.

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        Idk, bro, I’ve never seen Earth at the horizon, it’s mostly just trees and houses and stuff. Do you have to be in dark skies?

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    An extremely rare planetary alignment will take place on February 28, 2025. Don’t miss it — an event like this won’t happen again this decade!

    In the evening, just after sunset, seven planets — Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars — will align in the sky. Four of them (Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars) will be easily visible to the naked eye. For Uranus and Neptune, get a pair of binoculars or a small telescope. Saturn will be the most difficult target to see — you’ll need to know the exact time for your exact location as the planet hangs close to the Sun.

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      i hate when people use vague blocks of time to refer to something that we know with 100% certainty.

      “YOU WILL NOT BE AWAKE SOMEWHERE WITH THE PERIOD OF APPROXIMATELY 12 HOURS FROM NOW, DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING TODAY”

      are we talking like, once every decade, once every two decades, once a century? I gotta have a reference frame here.

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      I’m not so sure about the binoculars part there… I have an 8" dobsonian telescope and I have a hard time finding those two.

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      I saw Saturn from a suburban street a week or two ago just after sunset, near the moon and Venus, and it was visible, though my elderly mother in law couldn’t see it

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    We were playing a music trivia game and the question was “what planet did david bowie sing about life on?”

    And my buddy says “earth?” Lmao

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            I’m sure there have been original compositions on space stations before, the people up there should be nerdy enough…

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              Yeah, but it’s still a song by a person from Earth on an Earth instrument and in an Earth language and almost definitely Earth related somehow.

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            Nah. The song in the triva question was Mars, for example. There’s plenty of songs about things other than earth, and other than life.

            I know what you’re saying though.

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      The song is called life on Mars, but it’s all about Earthly things, so I reckon he was singing about Earth problems and only contrasting it to the highbrow idea of life on Mars

      Looking at the lyrics again it seems to mostly be about a film, or films in general

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    He commented that right after texting his gf asking her to call his phone because he can’t find it

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    Years ago, I think I remember seeing a screenshot- could have been from Quora, where someone was asking why we haven’t sent astronauts to the sun.

    I lost a pretty big chunk of my faith in humanity that day.

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      Well, the P is silent.

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      you’re talking about the order from the sun, but that’s not necessarily how it has to appear in our sky. It’s like how the stars in orion’s belt are actually stupidly far from each other, and from their perspective they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

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      I was gonna say.

      Nearly everything one observes year round is Earth. Even your clothes and the cloud of your warm breath when you are out observing the alignment in the cold is Earth.