LOL not me looking down at all the bug bites on my legs from gardening, during the day (fuck you asian tiger mosquitos, the day used to be safe!), with full body deet
Yes, I hate this damn invasive species. Especially if you have neighbors who don't take care to avoid having standing water where they can proliferate.
I was in Germany and my host family made fun of me when I reacted strongly to an insect approaching closely. I recognized from context instantly that in the US we likely overreact to insects in their eyes and immediately toughened up, frustrating their teasing and amusement. My pivot caused them mild disappointment and we each learned something about our cultures.
I don't understand my fellow continentmen either. First thing I did once I had a place of my own was installing screens everywhere. Fuck chasing mosquitos. As a kid my bedroom walls were murder scenes from all the mosquito massacring.
Back then some window types didn't work well with screens, but that's been a long while.
They exist, you just have to buy and install them yourself.
Hence why everyone is asking what is wrong with Europeans for not doing it and for ONCE i have to agree with the Americans on this one. I installed screens on every single window in my apartment years ago, even bought a screen door for the balcony. Fuck them mosquitos.
I'm German. My parents never bothered to install screens so me and my brother were bitten a lot. First thing I did as a home owner was installing screens and screen doors. I'll never get why older folks didn't use them. I guess they were seen as luxury, like climate.
Dude, I live in Germany next to a forest. Without screens I'd be eaten alive. My son mistakenly opened an unscreened window in his room and had like 20 mosquitos in his room.
OP lives in the "north part" of the northern hemisphere, if the photo was recent then they're in Europe. Their bedroom is on the north side of the building.
That's all I am deducing without cheating ... or caring that much. I'm not a geo-sleuth, I just like stars.
On that note: if you follow a straight line from the two stars on the right edge of the Big Dipper / Ursa Major upwards, the next brightest star you cross is Polaris / the North Star. (Which is the handle tip of the Little Dipper / Ursa Minor.)
Or in this case that line leads you straight to the top of their window frame
PS
Apparently it's hard to find a real picture of the dippers in short order so here's an artist's depiction of what I wrote ... except these are beavers! (Whoever drew this has never seen a bear. And yes the website claims these are bears.)
definitely not by me. ain't no way i'm opening my windows at night without screens (nor am i doing it with the ac on), all you'd find left the next morning is a sweat-drenched corpse drained of blood by mosquitos.
The middle star in the handle is Mizar, a double star. Supposedly, Native American tribes used it as visual acuity test. I didn't believe that until one night I was explaining the Big Dipper to my 5 y.o. daughter and she told me she could see two stars even though I had never told her that.
Go get an okay-ish set of binoculars and... take OFF your glasses.
I don't know why it didn't occur to me before but I recently just started using mine without my glasses and HOLY SMOKES is it nice to do something without my glasses on, even if... they are just bulkier more awkward glasses, also ... the Moon looks amazing!
Originally I had some bushnells from the 1980s but they were dirty as hell and abused so those are for the kids out in the yard.
Now I have some Vortex 10x42 Diamondback HD's and holy smokes they are awesome. but they were like $199 on sale so.... be ready for expensive glass if you go beyond a nice $50 pair.
Vortex stuff was on sale at sportsman warehouse this week. Pretty sure still going on.
Edit. I checked it is. But I was not expecting to a $1,700 pair, and I swear I know what astonished means.
here’s a visual representation. for the first 22 years of my life i always just thought lights looked like that for everyone until i finally got glasses and learned what astigmatism means lol
I have astigmatism in both eyes, one more than the other. It’s when your corneas turn oval-shaped instead of the round they’re supposed to be. I know there’s more science-y shit I could say, but that’s what I remember from what my eye doc told me lol
I believe both are also multiple star systems, that move together. After looking, Mizar is a quadruple star system, and Alcor is a a binary star system, so they make a sextuple system.
Considering the Native Americans were never in contact with Arabs, you can’t say where it started because they would have started at unrelated times without knowledge of each other.
I once camped in the mountains. It was really early in the season and I was alone and worried about bears so I slept in my SUV. Laid the back seats down and laid back with my head on the armrest between the driver and passenger. The view from the sunroof was the big dipper, I'll never forget it. I took so long to fall asleep since I just stared at it. 10/10 camping experience. Woke up to snow on the ground 😂
Technically correct is the best kind of correct! Even if the dipper will disappear, I’d still enjoy seeing the night sky and let my imagination run wild.
I have the freckle constellation of Libra on my back, Scorpio on my thigh and Orion on my belly. No one ever thinks it’s cool when I show them with sharpie.
So lovely!!! Once I was asleep on a plane, woke up, and it was framed perfectly in the window. Can’t find a picture, but the perfect framing felt magical!
I live in San Francisco, and one of the few downsides is that I haven’t seen a recognizable constellation in years. I’m lucky if I get a planet or two here and there.
That's tight! I'm excited I can finally see the moon from my bed and living room. Nice view all the way to the horizon mostly so I should catch some big ones in a few months. Plus a telescope that looks at it ok. Not what I thought I was going to see but still fun.
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u/mjh215 11h ago
Within an hour the geoguesser dudes are going to know exactly where you live.