If I were writing, or reading, a formal, or serious, communication I would want to use, or see, proper grammar. This was a joke. And slang is perfectly acceptable in non-formal situations.
As far as I know, it's not that the stars in the skies looked like things, rather because the stars were there when it was time for certain activities. March-April was the time of letting goats off to pasture.
A few wise men discussed the number of teeth a camel has regarding its origins. They couldn't agree, so they asked a camel driver. "Ah, I will be back soon". After a while, he came back. "34" he said. "Dear man, how did you reach that conclusion so quickly"? "I counted them", and went back to work.
Yeah I agree they had great drugs and a great view of the stars we have almost entirely lost. I’ve taken the dose to see the lines in the stars so can verify it is likely what happened 😂
I do wonder if with less light pollution and less pollution overall, they could see dimmer stars we can’t that filled out the shape?? Or they were drunk as hell. Either one is possible.
So again, the Stars have not moved (from our perspective). We have. Our axis has tilted less than 2 inches over 2000 years but the stars are still in the exact same places.
Thank you for recommending i look into this subject Again. It's nice brushing up on topics i havent visited in a while.
You do realize that the cosmos is in constant motion and that our sun is moving through the universe and we follow it because of gravity? Or that the light of stars is bent because of the Earth's Gravity?
Last time the sun was in this section of the Milky Way Dinosaurs were a thing.
Take millions, if not billions of years for those specific stars to shift in their constellations. The universe is BIG. In that time the arrangement of those stars hasn't changed. But our Axial Tilt has, by only a few degrees. Thats the only visible change thats happened. Stellar placement has not.
Yes, i Do know that. I also know that our entire galaxy is moving together as one. I Also know that the space Between the stars that We have designated as certain constellations are millions, if not billions of light years apart from each other. So if they Are moving at different speeds it will....
Hey, i guess you're right. A >10⁰ shift in the earth's axial tilt over 2000 years IS a HUGE difference. Especially since these stars are millions of light years apart from each other And Us.
The stars themselves arent moving or changing position from our perspective, the tilt of our planet is.
You ever think about how much more of the sky anchient cultures had due to lack of light pollution? How it was easier to build shapes out of clusters of galaxies, but we can only see the skeletons of the brightest stars.
Only chasing a goat and thinking you're going until the last minute swerve to the correct fall on your face, that kind of goat/ghost sign in the sky. Yeah, sure, everybody sees it.
It’s like the planetarium episode from South Park. They show a couple constellations and then overlay the figures. For the last one, which isn’t real, it’s two stars and then overlay Davinci’s Last Supper painting.
I wonder if they could see a lot more stars back then, because they didn’t have the light pollution, and maybe the configuration did look like a goat back then…
I've viewed the night sky from remote places far from civilization, & the difference is just stunning! You could easily lie on the ground just looking up in awe at what you're seeing compared to what you'd normally see at home.
As for the goat, I couldn't say. I'm far too astronomically ignorant.
Constellations had the names they had as mnemonics to oral tradition stories rather than their actual shape. Folklore was meant to teach people about what the sky looked like in certain seasons or special days. So they attached celestial bodies to characters in the stories.
... art thou for real?
Try getting this picture when your location is surrounded by greenhouses. Or from downtown Vegas. Either you dial down your exposure, or you get a completely burnt-out frame.
I saw the milky way once in the countryside on a clear night about ten miles from here, 30 years ago. I'd have to drive for hours to even have a chance of seeing it again. ☹️
The sky looks like this to a CCD camera set to a high exposure setting, which is what took this picture (it's actually a screencap from a 2016 video as part of the "darkskies" light pollution initiative).
I've been to mauna kea. The view is incredible, but it doesn't look anything like that.
That's what I always say! Aside from the dipper and southern cross... I don't think anybody saw anything in any stars. It's just they were the first to name it.
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Two stars, surrounded by lots of other stars "The Twins!"
Of course they also couldn't see the color blue...so your point is kinda valid.
Thank you for recommending i look into this subject Again. It's nice brushing up on topics i havent visited in a while.
Last time the sun was in this section of the Milky Way Dinosaurs were a thing.
The stars themselves arent moving or changing position from our perspective, the tilt of our planet is.
This goat affects my moods
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I thought I'd just got a hold of that...
Obviously it's a stoat.
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As for the goat, I couldn't say. I'm far too astronomically ignorant.
There, fixed it.
Try getting this picture when your location is surrounded by greenhouses. Or from downtown Vegas. Either you dial down your exposure, or you get a completely burnt-out frame.
I've been to mauna kea. The view is incredible, but it doesn't look anything like that.