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Originally posted by muzungu
skydiver
Most of the stars which form the constellations are not associated with each other as a physical group and are often separated by immense distances. The pattern they form is merely an accident due to our relative position. |
true. they aren't 'groups' of stars per se, just individual stars we've grouped together to make a picture...but given that they can be 1,000,000 of light years from each other, isn't it possible that orion looks like orion on a different planet...it would all be a matter of perspective...if the other planet is standing behind earth for lack of a better term...parallel to us as opposed to being say 90 degrees away from us...man 3 dimensions is hard to talk about but say there is a flat picture inside an orange. anyone standing inside (yeah odd idea but it's late) that orange on a certain vector would see the same picture, just varied in size...but if you were on the front of the orange and someone was on the bottom of the orange both looking at the same picture, they would see different images given their relative position to the picture...
to make a long story short, the ancients didn't have to be ON earth, just on the same vector as earth when using the constellations to make the glyphs...i think. or it could be the last of that corbet canyon going to my head(and you thought daniel was a cheap date)