Have you ever looked into nighttime sky?

Question

Away from all the ambient light of a small town or city,,
and felt really small,,yet connected?
The Milky Way is much more than a candy bar,,

Answer 1

Lovely and poetic...

Answer 2

I have told this story so many times here, but its worth telling again!

I was helping do a bird survey for a ranch in the Texas hill country, far away from any city. We went out at night to look for owls. The milky way was spread across the sky. We got our spotting scopes out and did some scanning. I was absolutely overwhelmed. I felt this sense of the immensity of the universe. I turned to my friend and said "THIS is why I don't believe in God!"

People always expect me to say the opposite, but it truly makes me realize that we are so very very very tiny. It makes the idea of a personal god seem extremely arrogant.

Answer 3

Yes, I have...

My Mom lives out in the boonies where the night sky is untouched by even the slightest caress of artificial light...

Many nights I have sat out on her deck, a beer in hand, and gazed into the moon.
At some point my thoughts take me beyond the moon and into our solar system,... further still into the Milky Way,.. and eventually to the billions of astral systems and bodies which make up our Universe...

Near the end of my mind's journey I find myself struck dumb by the absolute awe of 'all that which is everything',..
...and my last thought is always this:

"I wonder if,
- somewhere out there,
- at a little spot in a place at the end of my mind's travels, there is...
...someone who
- at that very moment,
-is looking at their own nighttime sky,...
...and pondering the same thing...?"

At about that time my beer-buzz starts to fade, and I'm brought back to Earth,
-and to all of the Sisyphean drudgeries it has to offer me...

[Thanks for posting this question,... and allowing me to escape the bonds of those drudgeries, - if only for just a spell]...:-)

Answer 4

There's something about being in the two best places at the same time: on an awesome deck overlooking the ocean -- but wrapped up warm in a blanket on a bench on the deck looking at the billions of stars and hearing the crashing of the waves just 50 feet away! I feel so tiny and insignificant when I see all of the stars -- and I am truly grateful to God for the beauty of his creation.

Answer 5

i miss that so much. i am currently stuck in a concrete jungle.. alas, when i see the sliver of a crescent moon, like tonight.. i am transported through teary eyes to the place i remember being in where i could see billions upon trillions of points of light in the nighttime sky..we all look up into the same sky, so we are one, yet there has GOT to be many other places that see the sky, not just we on earth.. it would be so sad to know that we are the only conscious life in the universe.. don't you agree...

Answer 6

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

- Monty Python

Answer 7

yes, we are really so small and insignificant compared to the rest of the universe. we are even less than the meanest ant, yet we are connected to the universe, we are in it. When I look into it I think of the vastness of the universe and how little we really know and how beautiful something that has been here so long can be.

Answer 8

I left your house this morning,
’bout a quater after nine.
Coulda been the Willie Nelson,
coulda been the wine.

When I left your house this morning,
it was a little after nine.
It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations
reveal themselves, one star at time.

Drove back to town this morning,
with working on my mind.
I thought of maybe quittin’,
Thought of leavin’ it behind.

Went back to bed this morning
and as I’m pullin’ down the blind,
yeah, the sky was dull and hypothetical.
and fallin’ one cloud at a time.

That night in Toronto,
with its checkerboard floors.
Riding on horseback,
and keeping order restored,
til the men they couldn’t hang,
stepped to the mic and sang,
and their voices rang with that Aryan twang.

I got to your house this morning,
just a little after nine.
In the middle of that riot,
couldn’t get you off my mind.

So, I’m at your house this morning,
just a little after nine.
’cause, it was in Bobcaygeon
where I saw the constellations reveal themselves
one star at time.

- Tragically Hip - "Bobcaygeon"

I live in the forest to the north of Bobcaygeon. No light here but the sun, the moon, the stars ...

Answer 9

i don't sense related. i think minute, yet i'm comfortable with that. i assume, in a fashion I DO sense related, in that i think of that human beings on the different area of the planet are seeing the same stars as me. Then I comprehend that the two previous & destiny generations all see what i'm now seeing. That does supply me a related feeling, so i assume you have been precise. isn't it beautiful? I bear in mind years in the past, on a tiny u . s . highway in Elkhart, Indiana early one dark night, my fiance & I laid out interior the path of the rustic & in simple terms stared up on the sky & mindlessly chatted. It replaced into so beautiful & captivating....

Answer 10

We are very small compared to the night sky!! That's probably why you felt that way!! Now you know what a bug must feel like looking at us!! It's all relative!!

Answer 11

Yes I have and it's even more amazing when I look into the stars with my telescope.

Light pollution sucks...too many miss the beauty of a gorgeous night sky.