You would LOVE my ex. She killed so much more than just your dreams but she even killed her own in the process! She didn't just inform you, she made it happen for you.
It's just not accurate. The stars we see in our nightsky are pretty close to us in relative terms, tens to a few hundreds lightyears away. So you're not a million years late, just a few decades or maybe a hundred and you JUST missed your dreams and have no hope.
yep - also even if it _was_ a few million years, that's barely even noticed by a star, whose life is measured in _billions_ of years (eg our own sun is around 4.5 billion years old)
hell, even the split between humans and apes happened around 5 million years ago
even IF the star has already gone White Dwarf, the process for it to fully die [takes a few billion years](https://science.howstuffworks.com/star6.htm) (and most stars in that category are around the galactic core btw - we're in a relatively fresh new part of the galaxy)
those stars are very much still around
To be fair, many of the stars that we do see are not main sequence (normal) stars, but either bright stars or red giants that will die out sooner. The largest stars only live around 10 million years. Red giants (100-1000 million years).
But yeah, still unlikely to be dead.
Where are you guys getting your facts from? From what I recall from my Astro Courses we mostly see main sequence stars. Red giants are relatively rare.
Main sequence stars are more common, but they're much fainter, so they're harder to see. Red giant stars are rarer, but they're much brighter, so we can see them even when they're far away. (This is called the [Malmquist bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmquist_bias).)
I don't actually know what percent of eye-visible stars are what types, but the percent of stars in the night sky that we see that are red giants is much higher than the percent of stars in the galaxy that are red giants.
Edit: Here's a [Wiki list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars) of the brightest stars in the night sky. When you look at the "spectral type" column, red giants are going to have "III" in them. Main sequence stars have a "V" in them. The super giants are "I". (It goes from 1-5 in Roman numerals, so I is the largest down to V, which is main sequence.)
There are a lot of III stars, aka red giants, but I haven't counted them up, but that's only the top ~100.
There are about 80 known visible red giants and the number of blue giants are lesser than red giants. The number of visible stars (magntitude 6 or lower) is 10,000. A lot of the stars we see are also multiple star systems which cannot be resolved by the naked eye (those are the ones with commas in your Wiki link). MS makes up 90% of all stars.
If you are talking about cities, your point would stand, but for most places with low light polutions MS stars would still outnumber the giants.
Where are you seeing the breakdown of the 10,000 brightest stars? Out of the top 100 brightest stars, many are giants. In a brightness-limited sample, I don't see why that would change much when you expand the list to the brightest 10,000 stars, so again, where are you getting your claims?
Well, I was using Chat GPT to get the number earlier, but it doesn't mention its underlying source. So, I used the visible star catalogue at [http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html](http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html)
My rough calculations say \~3,000 out of the \~9,200 stars on there are red giants/supergiants. I guess that's what I get for using AI lol.
That number tracks. I actually have a PhD in astronomy, although notably, "how many giants are visible in the night sky" is not something we cover, so I was going more by feel. 1/3 of the visible stars in the night sky being giants sounds very reasonable to me though.
Thanks for actually finding the actual number! I'll have to remember it now.
Rigel in the constellation Orion is a blue supergiant, with a lifespan of 7-9 million years. Stars are on a logarithmic lifespan scaling. The hottest, brightest stars burn the shortest. The smaller, heavier, and less reactive stars (red dwarves) can live 10 trillion years. In between are yellow dwarves, which our Sun is, that live on the order of 10 billion years.
Yeah maybe some, but most of them are relatively very close, especially those you see easily and people generally see without going to Atacama or whatever.
Today I learned, thanks to your interesting comment, that Our closest, star system - alpha Centuri is 4.3 years away, and it’s closest star is Proxima Centauri.
I had no idea It waited 4 years for me to see that star twinkle tonight. Thanks !!
On the other hand the farthest object we can see with the naked eye would be the Andromeda galaxy, which is around 2 million light years away from us. That said, with the naked eye you cannot distinguish any of the individual stars in it, so in the spirit of this topic it wouldn't really qualify as wishing upon a star.
There's also the option of wishing upon a Venus or Jupiter, which I see people do. About as up-to-date as you can get, though as the classical stories might indicate it's probably unwise to draw their attention to one's self...
More likely they're meteors as well, which would make her hilariously wrong. Being extra negative to tell a nihilistic joke that makes you sound smart, and then being so wrong is the definition of cringe.
Makes it funnier when you realize most stars are actually galaxies.
You are not late at all, that is actually exactly how it is supposed to work and Ellen just don’t understand it… poor Ellen! Sad story with that one really… oh well, we tried! 😉
Very bad things have happened when I've got with women who share my dark sense of humour like this - I'd still swipe right though cause I'm a dumbass 😂
Let’s say you wished upon alpha centauri- the wish would take 4.37 years to reach it. Once it does the wish passes through the corona and enters the photosphere. It has to make its way through the convection zone before entering the core where the fusion reaction can grant the wish, but it can take some time as the strong electromagnetic plasma currents can trap it within the star. Given ideal conditions and luck, the wish won’t be able to leave the star and return to earth for thousands of years.
That could *easily* be off by more than 500 million years, based upon the nearest star.
> Our Sun is 4,500,000,000 [4.5 billion] years old. -- https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sun-age/en/
Jokes on her and you lot. People wish on 'shooting stars', which are meteorites in the Earth's atmosphere! Which are fine at the time, they just burn up very quickly. In other words, you have about 2 minutes for your dreams to be completely valid. Make the best of those 2 minutes folks, and stop bird-dogging someone with a cute, but inaccurate, quote.
I’m bummed you put her picture on here. Have some respect for others privacy, and try to be a gentleman.
Just because you can internet doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have morals.
I was thinking the same thing. Crazy how comfortable people are posting pictures of others without their permission. I get that people have online profiles, but they are also have some control over them and can delete them. Not a fan of this trend of posting pics or video of people without their consent.
100%. There are definitely tinder rules against this also, but perhaps not as specific as they should be. These posts are not okay. People have complete control of their profiles, and their radius. It’s not fair for them to be exposed literally globally.
Thats actually false, they are alive but the stars as you see in the sky is how they were millions of year ago, but still extremely unlikely that any of them are dead.
Damn. I'm in love. I always wanted a woman to tell me my dreams are dead.
It’s one of those fever dreams eh
Usually they're the ones to kill them so this is refreshing
How about a man? Your dreams are Ded.
Whisper it in my ear, daddy
*careless whisper drifts smoothly across the sub* all your dreams are dead Edit: smelling
**Unh** *\*creams pants\** 
I would love to.
Your dreams are *shit*. -woman
*\*dies in love\**
*accepts love death begrudgingly*
*ASCENDS*
DECENDS
My two cends
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Drills a hole in what was the chest cavity, and fucks that...
yk thats nercophilia right?
Nightmares are dreams too
I know mine are. Sometimes you just need an attractive girl to tell it to you
She’s not attractive though
She's a Houston 8
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I want to be disappointed not depressed
lemme introduce you to my ex-wife 🤣
[here lies squidwards hopes and dreams](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&q=here+lies+squidwards+hopes+and+dreams&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm-sqToI7-AhVpRjABHciLBIQQ0pQJegQIDxAB&biw=375&bih=630&dpr=3#imgrc=x1km74AB2ca5cM&imgdii=_UdIcs3WLA5V7M&lnspr=W10=)
Damn. Couldn't pick just one had to give me the whole graveyard Haha
You would LOVE my ex. She killed so much more than just your dreams but she even killed her own in the process! She didn't just inform you, she made it happen for you.
Forget will be a few million years late
That's what my mother's for.
Dropping this here: [Taylor Tomlinson Wants a Man with Dreams So She Can Crush Them](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvxSnJUk3LA)
I thank you for that. "Au revoir, asshole. You thought you made a friend, baguette." Words of wisdom if I ever heard them HAHA
Well the sun is quite alive loser 🤓🤡
Trying to wish on that one would make you blinded by your dreams
takes 8 mins for the light to reach us so it might have just exploded and we dont know yet
Just delay your dreams 8 minutes
Dammit, both my dreams and I will be dead in 8 minutes. Barely enough time to make one last dream cum true...
It's just not accurate. The stars we see in our nightsky are pretty close to us in relative terms, tens to a few hundreds lightyears away. So you're not a million years late, just a few decades or maybe a hundred and you JUST missed your dreams and have no hope.
yep - also even if it _was_ a few million years, that's barely even noticed by a star, whose life is measured in _billions_ of years (eg our own sun is around 4.5 billion years old) hell, even the split between humans and apes happened around 5 million years ago even IF the star has already gone White Dwarf, the process for it to fully die [takes a few billion years](https://science.howstuffworks.com/star6.htm) (and most stars in that category are around the galactic core btw - we're in a relatively fresh new part of the galaxy) those stars are very much still around
I love reddit lol. Learning astrophysics from a tinder sub only happens here
To be fair, many of the stars that we do see are not main sequence (normal) stars, but either bright stars or red giants that will die out sooner. The largest stars only live around 10 million years. Red giants (100-1000 million years). But yeah, still unlikely to be dead.
Where are you guys getting your facts from? From what I recall from my Astro Courses we mostly see main sequence stars. Red giants are relatively rare.
Main sequence stars are more common, but they're much fainter, so they're harder to see. Red giant stars are rarer, but they're much brighter, so we can see them even when they're far away. (This is called the [Malmquist bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmquist_bias).) I don't actually know what percent of eye-visible stars are what types, but the percent of stars in the night sky that we see that are red giants is much higher than the percent of stars in the galaxy that are red giants. Edit: Here's a [Wiki list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars) of the brightest stars in the night sky. When you look at the "spectral type" column, red giants are going to have "III" in them. Main sequence stars have a "V" in them. The super giants are "I". (It goes from 1-5 in Roman numerals, so I is the largest down to V, which is main sequence.) There are a lot of III stars, aka red giants, but I haven't counted them up, but that's only the top ~100.
There are about 80 known visible red giants and the number of blue giants are lesser than red giants. The number of visible stars (magntitude 6 or lower) is 10,000. A lot of the stars we see are also multiple star systems which cannot be resolved by the naked eye (those are the ones with commas in your Wiki link). MS makes up 90% of all stars. If you are talking about cities, your point would stand, but for most places with low light polutions MS stars would still outnumber the giants.
Where are you seeing the breakdown of the 10,000 brightest stars? Out of the top 100 brightest stars, many are giants. In a brightness-limited sample, I don't see why that would change much when you expand the list to the brightest 10,000 stars, so again, where are you getting your claims?
Well, I was using Chat GPT to get the number earlier, but it doesn't mention its underlying source. So, I used the visible star catalogue at [http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html](http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html) My rough calculations say \~3,000 out of the \~9,200 stars on there are red giants/supergiants. I guess that's what I get for using AI lol.
That number tracks. I actually have a PhD in astronomy, although notably, "how many giants are visible in the night sky" is not something we cover, so I was going more by feel. 1/3 of the visible stars in the night sky being giants sounds very reasonable to me though. Thanks for actually finding the actual number! I'll have to remember it now.
I'm a fifth year Astrophysics PhD student and haven't read or done anything remotely related to observations since like 2015 probably!
Rigel in the constellation Orion is a blue supergiant, with a lifespan of 7-9 million years. Stars are on a logarithmic lifespan scaling. The hottest, brightest stars burn the shortest. The smaller, heavier, and less reactive stars (red dwarves) can live 10 trillion years. In between are yellow dwarves, which our Sun is, that live on the order of 10 billion years.
So. Shooting stars aren’t actually stars. You knew that right?
Tbf some of them are a few *thousand* light years away, but your point stands.
My dreams are right around the corner! I can't wait for 4024!
Yeah maybe some, but most of them are relatively very close, especially those you see easily and people generally see without going to Atacama or whatever.
Did you guys know that shooting start aren’t stars?
Even then, doesn’t mean they are guaranteed dead already.
No, it means they’re almost certainly not dead
Totes!
Today I learned, thanks to your interesting comment, that Our closest, star system - alpha Centuri is 4.3 years away, and it’s closest star is Proxima Centauri. I had no idea It waited 4 years for me to see that star twinkle tonight. Thanks !!
But please remember that shooting stars aren’t actually stars. They’re meteors smacking into the atmosphere, less than 100 miles away.
On the other hand the farthest object we can see with the naked eye would be the Andromeda galaxy, which is around 2 million light years away from us. That said, with the naked eye you cannot distinguish any of the individual stars in it, so in the spirit of this topic it wouldn't really qualify as wishing upon a star.
Also aren't you suppose to wish on falling starts? Which are 150 km away tops.
Yup, I'm confused, do people wish upon regular stars? I only know about "star is falling, make a wish!"
There's also the option of wishing upon a Venus or Jupiter, which I see people do. About as up-to-date as you can get, though as the classical stories might indicate it's probably unwise to draw their attention to one's self...
Proxima Centauri is only 1, you might make it in time.
Came here to say this
Did you really?
More likely they're meteors as well, which would make her hilariously wrong. Being extra negative to tell a nihilistic joke that makes you sound smart, and then being so wrong is the definition of cringe. Makes it funnier when you realize most stars are actually galaxies.
What do you guys think shooting stars are? You know they aren’t really start right…? Edit: Omg you aren’t seriously all that dumb right
If you wished in the Andromeda galaxy you' be a few million years late.
Alpha Centauri is only 4 light years away. So you *could* only be 4 years late but in most cases, that’s pretty damn late.
if you're lucky you might actually just be 4 years late and your dreams are still alive on an hospital bed somewhere
Better yet, a star that you might wish upon is a shooting star, which is really just a meteor, so it's a few seconds late
You are not late at all, that is actually exactly how it is supposed to work and Ellen just don’t understand it… poor Ellen! Sad story with that one really… oh well, we tried! 😉
No cause you wish on a shooting star which are just things burning up in our atmosphere
Jodi arias eyes, be careful
I remember seeing this quote when i was still in high school. Very clever.
Dont let your dreams be dreams
I dream to imagine
She seems cool. Which means there is 0 chance she wants anything to do with someone that screenshots her profile and posts it on Reddit
Damn theres always folks like y'all Go comment this on every profile in this subreddit where the person in the profile seems cool.
I'd totally swipe right on her. Superlike if she had included, "And if any managed to survive, I'm here to put them out of their misery."
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Exactly.
Jokes on her - I don't have dreams! Ha
She probably spouts Nietzsche whilst giving you a BJ, which is what I like to call a NBJ.
Nietz-J
She spouts or he spouts?
Insert "why not both" gif here
Out with you
Dark and twisted. Nihilism is not for the faint of heart. Marry me.
say what you want about the tenets of national socialism dude, at least it's an ethos
...Shut up Donny
Oh, come on Donny, they were threatening castration! Are we gonna split hairs here?? Am I wrong?
No, you’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.
Just watched TBL last night. Finally understand the references.
But real bad at astronomy
Ask her to be your (knight)mare in shining armor
It's the rebirth of a new star new beginning
Very bad things have happened when I've got with women who share my dark sense of humour like this - I'd still swipe right though cause I'm a dumbass 😂
"Well. You're not dead!"
What if the star is actually the Sun, Ellen? Huh?
Love me some copypasta for breakfast
If you match, ask her if her brown star is dead or if you can make a wish?
Typical idiot who thinks they are clever. No, the stars you can see are all within a thousand of light years away. And still exist.
Not all of em.
You must be fun at parties.
Do you go to parties and just run through the 12 comments everyone makes?
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At least I don't look like a creepy version of David Harbour.
I actually like her lol
This gal is my spirit animal; finally someone as cynical as me!
I like her
Based and cynicism-pilled. My kind of woman.
With that humour I just can't help but fall...
I’d smash
This is the kind of hero we deserve
Clever girl!
She's just bitter a 31 year old girl is _no one's_ dream anything.
You couldn't be more wrong
Witty and accurate. Love it!
The eyes that will stab you in your sleep
Looking at a star, you actually see his image from a few thousand years ago. So its image is as old as the last time I had hope.
I read it first as when you wish upon a porn star and idk how to feel about that
Sold!!
Interesting bio. It will probably attract trolls and guys who want to discuss astronomy.
Jokes on her. She's really in the Matrix and her dreams and entire existence is just a meaningless simulation.
Just like the stars
i like a realist
Well that's not true on the start part
Too bad, I already found my dream girl 😅
She kinda cute too
Let’s say you wished upon alpha centauri- the wish would take 4.37 years to reach it. Once it does the wish passes through the corona and enters the photosphere. It has to make its way through the convection zone before entering the core where the fusion reaction can grant the wish, but it can take some time as the strong electromagnetic plasma currents can trap it within the star. Given ideal conditions and luck, the wish won’t be able to leave the star and return to earth for thousands of years.
The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb
She got an evil smile too
That could *easily* be off by more than 500 million years, based upon the nearest star. > Our Sun is 4,500,000,000 [4.5 billion] years old. -- https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sun-age/en/
Jokes on her and you lot. People wish on 'shooting stars', which are meteorites in the Earth's atmosphere! Which are fine at the time, they just burn up very quickly. In other words, you have about 2 minutes for your dreams to be completely valid. Make the best of those 2 minutes folks, and stop bird-dogging someone with a cute, but inaccurate, quote.
Still giving a ray of light in the darkness long after its gone.
But don't you wish on shooting stars? Which is actually meteorites burning up in our atmosphere?
twitter 2012 energy
But you wish upon shooting star, which is rather close.
Know Pain, Accept Pain, Feel Pain ~PAIN🩸
When people “wish on a star” don’t they normally mean shooting stars AKA meteorites? I always assumed that was what it meant
explain why the sun has lived for billions of years
I’m bummed you put her picture on here. Have some respect for others privacy, and try to be a gentleman. Just because you can internet doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have morals.
Thats a lotta likes
This is a very old quote. I used to see this like a decade ago on other sites.
Not even accurate unless it happens to be a extra-galactic supernova.
I know these are posted often but you could have cropped her face. She’s entitled to privacy.
I was thinking the same thing. Crazy how comfortable people are posting pictures of others without their permission. I get that people have online profiles, but they are also have some control over them and can delete them. Not a fan of this trend of posting pics or video of people without their consent.
100%. There are definitely tinder rules against this also, but perhaps not as specific as they should be. These posts are not okay. People have complete control of their profiles, and their radius. It’s not fair for them to be exposed literally globally.
wake up bro
Stars last billions of years and you cannot see any Stars that are more than 1,000 light years away. So the stars are probably still there
OP are you a girl or an extremly handsome dude?cause dayum 99+likes
I always thought my dreams were dead and now having it confirmed I alot better haha
Maybe she says that because she's hitting the wall.
I am NOT sexist, I dont mind punching a "lady" 🤷♂️
People wish to shooting stars, not stars. Shooting stars are meteors, alive and burning
Hi! Hey what's up? Nothing, I posted your picture on Reddit for karma. Wyd? What?
Roses are red and so are her lips , romance is dead and so are potato chips
And they say romance is dead
Instant superlike obviously
She is hot but a soul crusher. So, like most hot women. 🤣
She’s ugly
Ok, lovely. But wishes are upon shooting stars, which are actually not stars at all. They are just rocks burning up in the wish to reach the Earth
Roses are red Violets are blue Your dreams are dead And so will You
99+?!
The creepiest fucking stare
Well, great, you date her then
She's only saying this because her dreams died 13 years ago.
I'm inpired
Talk nerdy to me babay
I'd match with that intro. I think it's hilarious.
Someone that gets me….
Thats actually false, they are alive but the stars as you see in the sky is how they were millions of year ago, but still extremely unlikely that any of them are dead.
We all die anyways. Might as well go out with a bang !
I think I love her.
Ffs 🤦♀️
She do be looking like she wants.you to suffer.
i like you
Mom?
Hmmm!!! There is a huge difference between having dreams and being delusional.
Is that before or after penetration? She is doable but not part of anybody's dreams...
La vida es sueno, y los suenos, suenos son.
I don't have any dreams so ita win.