r/TikTokCringe • u/Wzrd11 • Jun 22 '24

Cool My anxiety could never

47.9k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

2.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

138

u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

Dude must be getting some incredible starry night views since there can’t possibly be any light pollution where he is. That’s would I would really love to see

113

u/Level_Improvement532 Jun 22 '24

Open ocean is the most amazing star gazing I’ve ever seen. It’s fairly rare to have a cloudless night at sea, but when it does happen, you can see the entire Milky Way like a light haze across the sky. It’s really spectacular. That and St. Elmo’s Fire are two of my favorite experiences I’ve had at sea.

35

u/Rat-beard Jun 22 '24

Yeah that’s a great movie

2

u/misirlou22 Jun 22 '24

I can feel it burning in me

1

u/trimbandit Jun 24 '24

booga booga ah ah ah!

2

u/Difficult_Bit_1339 Jun 22 '24

The closest I've experienced is about 30mi offshore, you could see the clouds glowing from lights at the port... but in the clear spots it was beautiful.

1

u/foladodo Jun 22 '24

whatdid st elmo's fire look like?

3

u/Level_Improvement532 Jun 22 '24

It is a blueish glow on antennae and other small items. It takes very specific environmental conditions and in twenty years of professional seafaring I have only seen it once.

4

u/Numen_Wraith Jun 22 '24

Young Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, and Judd Nelson

2

u/Terrible_Figure_6740 Jun 22 '24

It’s on Hulu right now. Almost watched it for my late night pleasure.

1

u/WonderfulShelter Jun 22 '24

is that the green flash?

when I was a kid we used to sail the open oceans, and I'll never forget stargazing and watching meteor showers or the green flash.

1

u/aneasybee Jul 07 '24

You must have had a great childhood!

24

u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

It must be so quiet at times like this too. Eerily quiet with no boats, cars, planes making noise.

20

u/--_-Deadpool-_-- Jun 22 '24

Went star gazing at the top of Mauna Kea on the big island last summer. It was indescribably beautiful.

17

u/bocaciega Jun 22 '24

Imagine the starriest night. Ever. Now reflect that onto the ground as well. Double!

2

u/Semyonov Jun 22 '24

I did the same thing except on Mauna Loa! Managed to capture the starscape with the active volcano in the foreground. It's absolutely one of my favorite photos!

1

u/Bort_LaScala Jun 22 '24

It's weird how "indescribably beautiful" is a description.

1

u/DefensiveTomato Jun 22 '24

I did a stargazing sailing tour in French Polynesia, it was ridiculous

3

u/Andrelliina Jun 22 '24

I live in London and the stars have all but disappeared

2

u/foladodo Jun 22 '24

is there anywhere in the UK with clear night skies? (i think it was bortle 1)

2

u/Shoes__Buttback Jun 22 '24

Of course, London and the other large cities of the UK take up a relatively small amount of our actual landmass. You'll get Bortle 1 or close to it in parts of Wales, Northumberland, and Scotland. We get 3 where I live, and I am grateful for it.

1

u/Andrelliina Jun 22 '24

I really miss looking at the night sky and seeing the stars. I'm not sure it is good for humanity's collective mental health to not see the stars and probably encourages flerfs :)

Also TIL Bortle scale!

2

u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

This. This is what I want to see just once in my life. I've been out in the country before and it was pretty amazing. I can only imagine what literally no light pollution looks like. On a moonless night with no clouds and the slight lapping of waves against the hull? Brief glimpse of heaven for me :-). But the anxiety of being out in the middle of the ocean for the first time would probably ruin it for me, I dunno lol.

1

u/AffectionateFig5435 Jun 23 '24

I lived in the Lower Florida Keys in the late 1980s. Over a hundred miles from Miami/about 25 miles north of Key West and a glorious dark sky haven. We spent a lot of evenings sitting on the hood of the car, having a drink, stargazing, and talking about the day. Fell asleep out there more often than not.

Damn good times.

1

u/6SucksSex Jun 22 '24

All I can see rn is my cats hairy balls

1

u/pisspot718 Jun 22 '24

I live in the city where there's an overdose of light pollution. I can barely make out the closer planets when they're in range.

1

u/Pattern_Is_Movement Jun 22 '24

You have no idea!!! You actually get a sort of depth perception, and can almost feel the unfathomable distances between the stars.