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[-] boojumliussnark@lemmy.world 94 points 6 months ago

Pigs can't look up? Hahaha WTF? Who came up with that?

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 77 points 6 months ago

Someone that's never seen a pig

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 29 points 6 months ago

It's like if you asked AI to come up with a problem pigs face and it's only ever read about pigs but never seen one.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

They can't look straight up, and then some genius heard that and morphed it to pigs can't look up period.

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Plus, it's not like the only way to look at the stars is by pointing your nose to the sky... Eyes have movement and the stars can also be seen in the horizon.

Still, would be nice to hug a pig, with my guts. (jk...)

Edit: shit, that sounds so wrong, I meant eating the pig...

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Hello Prime minister of the UK from that episode of Black Mirror

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Or an actual previous prime minister in his student days

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[-] tastysnacks@programming.dev 11 points 6 months ago

Pigs can look down. And pigs can lie on their back.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

They can also stand on a slope

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

These are all awesome pig facts

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[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago

Edgar. Well not really Edgar. More like someone wearing an Edgar suit.

[-] Remmock@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

His skin was hangin’ off his bones.

[-] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 6 months ago

He says it's kind but no one asked the pig what he wants

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago

You can ask. Just say "officer, can l lift you up and show you the stars"?

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago

You bet your ass that pig gonna be kicking and screaming.

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[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 32 points 6 months ago

Can't pigs lie on their side and roll around though? Then they'd be able to see the stars

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 months ago

What would the modern human equivalent of seeing the stars for the first time be? I guess we probably wouldn't really comprehend it even if we had the opportunity.

[-] 5too@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

Seeing the stars in a properly dark area, maybe?

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

It really is an experience. I'm from NJ and lived in the NYC metro area for 7 years so I've never really seen "true" darkness.

A few years back I went out to Colorado and a few friends and I stayed in a cabin up in The Rocky Mountains. That's true darkness. On the road up to the cabin we turned the headlights off, got out of the car and you couldn't see your hands it was so dark. It was cloudy so we couldn't see much, but it was still pretty awesome to see the stars that bright (when we could).

[-] wick@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Yes absolutely. I took a trip out towards the middle of Australia and it was crazy, we don't even have that much light pollution in our cities but the difference is still massive.

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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are probably people that have never really seen the stars and it will probbaly only get worse. It's honestly sad.

It makes me think of the Overview Effect.

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[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago

Many astronauts say seeing the earth from space is a similar transcendent moment. Especially the Apollo astronauts who could see the entire earth at once .

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[-] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

I've always been sorta jealous of people with synaesthesia. I imagine there's probably some weird downsides but I'd love to experience it. Just, like, something dumb like what color is my favorite song, or what does 4 smell like?

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago

My SO has some mild synesthesia, mostly just lights having a "sound". Like, our neighbor had some really obnoxiously bright flashing christmas lights that were allegedly quite loud. He "heard" something akin to a tiny truck backing up whenever he glanced out the window at the wrong time. He almost always knows if it's a real sound or a synesthesia "sound", though there have been a couple of occasions when he has had to ask me if i hear stuff while watching a show or movie that warranted an epilepsy warning. Sometimes he'll get a smell when listening music that makes him nostalgic, too, but that's only happened once or twice.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Do lots of LSD.

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

If you really want to, try taking some psychedelics.

[-] themachine@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Boob gazing the very first time.

[-] Kite@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

Being able to see the full spectrum of colors that actually exist in the world. Every very rare once in a while someone is born with more cones in their eyes, which allows them to see more. The rest of us, though, will never know.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Maybe seeing wavelengths we can't normally see, like IR and UV? Would be pretty cool.

[-] malean@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

There is so much lightpollution that neither we can watch it

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago

The good news is that the problem is fixable, so if that's important to you, check out: https://www.darkskysociety.org/

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[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago

Someone didnt read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. This is how you get Krikkit pigs

[-] Ohi@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

SUGAR.......WITH WATER.....

[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 12 points 6 months ago

I'm betting pigs could write some bomb ass poetry

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago

Can a copper look up tho? Maybe that's why they are so nasty and jealous of uplookers?

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 months ago

Tbf, this would also explain why guards in stealth games never look up

[-] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago
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[-] w1Ldc4rD@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

This is the most wholesome thing I've seen on the Internet today. This was the smile I needed.

[-] olmium@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Hello! I'm here to ruin it :) Just because it can't look up doesn't mean it can't see starts in front of it at night

[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Dont ruin peoples days

[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago
[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I'm just imagining him turning up at a farm and very insistently telling the farmer that this is what he's going to do. Even if that farm doesn't have pigs, that's what's going to happen when he pulls up.

[-] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

If they make Blood Meridian into movie and he’s not the Judge we riot.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

His name is Leonard Lawrence, sir!

[-] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

I think you mean that Thor tweeted this. He will always be Thor.

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