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Old guy at a truck stop showed me how to spot Orion without a map
I was fumbling with my phone in the dark at a rest area near Flagstaff and he just pointed up and said "look for the three stars in a row, that's his belt." Took me 10 seconds after that, now I can find it every time without any app.
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margaret_singh112d ago
Spend way too long once trying to teach my nephew with a star chart app but he just got frustrated and went inside. Its funny how something that simple like a guy pointing at the sky can just click for you. All that tech we carry around sometimes just gets in the way of actually looking up and seeing things for yourself. Makes you wonder how many other things we overcomplicate when the old way works just fine. I bet that old guy has taught a hundred people that same trick and none of them forgot it.
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betty_reed6112d ago
Oh come on, it can't be that deep Margaret Singh. Some people just prefer apps and gadgets, that doesn't mean they're missing out on anything important. A guy pointing at stars is cute and all, but he's probably just some random old timer with nothing better to do. Not everyone has the patience to stand around outside looking up at the dark and getting eaten by mosquitoes. Kids these days are used to screens anyway, so maybe the app just wasn't designed well enough. Let's not pretend like a simple finger point is some kind of life changing wisdom or anything...
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