It looks more like a ladle (“dipper”) than a bear (“Ursa major”) to me. Always made more sense to me.
It’s a stretch to say a pair of quadrilaterals with sticks look like a bear family, imho.
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abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 months agoIn the Netherlands we call this “the big bear”, which is an even more bullshit name, if you ask me.
blindsight@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But at least “big bear” is consistent. That’s literally what Ursa Major means, and that the name it had basically for 2000 years now.
The reason it doesn’t remotely look like a bear is because this is just the ass and tail. The whole thing looks like this: …wikimedia.org/…/1280px-Ursa_Major_IAU.svg.png