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minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·6 days agoI love it. it feels like Polaris will be there long after this rock is barren and cold, and we can continue to navigate by it in the gay space communism
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agofwiw it’ll at least stop being the north star in some thousand years (might be longer), which is arguably even more fucked to think about like, people in the past had a different north star, what the fuck
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoApparently the star is going to fizzle out soon, but beside that, if you are not on earth it becomes irrelevant for navigation.
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minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agowhy would you want to dash my hopes like that?
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoyou can just explore other star systems i guess? isn’t that something?
I love it. it feels like Polaris will be there long after this rock is barren and cold, and we can continue to navigate by it in the gay space communism
fwiw it’ll at least stop being the north star in some thousand years (might be longer), which is arguably even more fucked to think about
like, people in the past had a different north star, what the fuck
Apparently the star is going to fizzle out soon, but beside that, if you are not on earth it becomes irrelevant for navigation.
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why would you want to dash my hopes like that?
you can just explore other star systems i guess? isn’t that something?