What do you think of when you think about stars?

Question

When someone talks about stars (in the sky not celeb's) what do you think about?

Answer 1

Distance.

Answer 2

Stars

Answer 3

There is only one answer to this question and that answer is History.

What we see in the Universe when we look into the night sky is probably not there at all. Because of the vast distance that the stars are away from this planet, the nearest being Alpha Centuri
which is approximately 4.5 light years away that equals a monumental mathmatical sum

60X60X24X365X 186,000 = I light year in Miles.

What you are looking at is history stretching back to the begining of time. Therefor what we see in the sky at night apart from the nine planets is probably not actually there at all. We are looking backwards in Time.


Father Graham

Answer 4

Whe I think about them I always wonder if that particular star might have some kind of life looking back wondering the same thing. Also from my physics background I also think about how the light you see in the sky now could be the light of a long dead star, still travelling across the universe.

Answer 5

first I think how beautiful the stars are, how breath takingly beautiful on a crystal clear night. The stars make the night sky look like a blanket safely wrapped around this tiny planet earth. So firstly the stars make me gaze in wonder at their beauty and feel warm and safe. However if I really start to think about the stars I then think about space, infinity, what is out there? where does it end ? how did we get here? how did the stars get there ? is there another universe beyond? now you've set me off I won't sleep tonight.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

First i think of how darkness overwhelming and deep makes tiny pinpricks of light all that more beautiful. Then i think that it looks like we're sitting under a black glass coffee table and someone spreads white sand on top-looks like that. Then i try to imagine these stars closer.
Mostly though i dont think when i see the stars, i just feel. One of my wishes is that a frosty, cold clear star-filled night will be the last thing i see before i die. Its my favourite image in existence.

Answer 7

My late boyfriend/son's father. When he passed away, there was only one star in the sky every night in the SAME EXACT DIRECTION from my front porch and it remained like that for one week straight and alot of other people came up to me and told me that, they noticed it also and it made them think of him too :) Ever since then, every time I look at any form of nature I think about him.

Answer 8

I think about a woman I once knew. Her father saw three stars aligned in the sky and he nicknamed her 'three stars'. I knew this woman for almost a quarter of a century and she was the strongest, sweetest most loving woman I have known......stars always remind me of her and always will

Answer 9

I think about how small I am in the universe, and find it strangely comforting. They were there a hundred years ago, and they'll be there a hundred years from now. Thats no time at all to them. But I'll be long forgotten. Somehow it makes all my problems seem smaller.

Answer 10

Nietzsche-I love those who do not first seek beyond the stars for reasons to go down and to be sacrifices: but sacrifice themselves to the earth , that the earth may one day belong to the superman.

And Mushrooms.