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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Buffaloaf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  This is somehow a ram.

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Psilocybin was likely involved.

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aries wasn’t even a constellation until some Greeks decided it was. They attached it to the mythical ram in the golden fleece myth. It looks a little ram-like with the full milky way behind it, but it’s not much of a constellation.

    For some reason astrology bullshit has taken over the entire internet when it comes to researching star signs. The story behind the ram is mentioned (copy pasted) everywhere but fails to tell how exactly Ptolomy made the connection.

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    • burningmatches@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t that how all constellations came about?

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      • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Other constellations are much older, and are actually in the shape of the thing they represent. Ptolomy wrote down his constellations about 900 years after the Babylonians split up the zodiac into the constellations we now use in the western world as well as India and the Islamic world (with the exception of a bigger constellation that was split into three). An earlier version of Babylonian astrology goes back to about 1000 BCE and still covers many of the constellations we use today, with many names coinciding with their Greek and current derivations.

        100CE is still old of course, but it’s about as far removed from the origins of most other constellations as we are from the East-West Schism.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s looks like the profile of one of those rich people dogs.

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s way more of a scorpion than some other constellations are their thing

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• br3d@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rotate it 90 degrees to the right

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why? That doesn’t make it look more like a scorpion.

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    • XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I… see it now

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• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it really that weird? You can’t see half the stars these days, but it’s really not that much of a stretch:

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  Don’t forget that pre-electicity civilisations spent a lot of time looking up at the night sky. Any traveler had to learn how to use the stars to navigate, so if course they’d group stats together to create points of reference.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not saying it’s useless. I’m just saying it doesn’t look like a scorpion.

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard that not having access to actual dark skies free of light pollution makes it a lot harder to see/understand how people could see figures in constellations, and that extremely faint light from other stars, nebulas, etc adds to the experience. Allegedly it makes Orion’s belt easier to see. I’ve never had access to a sky dark enough to test it in person, though.

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• RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Uh that one is a rare case of constellation actually look like what it’s supposed to be. It’s pretty easy to see the scorpion tail imo. Doesn’t have all the legs obviously but still close enough to consider it as one.

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• famousringo@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Close enough, fuck it.” — National motto of Ancient Greece

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• Octopus1348@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It looks like a hook.

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