The World's Oldest Story? Astronomers Say Global Myths About 'seven Sisters' Stars May Reach Back 100,000

The world's oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about 'seven sisters' stars may reach back 100,000 years https://phys.org/news/2020-12-world-oldest-story-astronomers-global.html

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The world's oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about 'seven sisters' stars may reach back 100,000 years

In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or the "seven sisters." Look carefully and you will p

Holy shit, this is cool!

So many cultures call the Pleiades some variation of the "seven sisters" despite only having six visible stars. There only appear to be six because two of the stars are so close together as to appear as one.

The myths also mention one sister leaving or hiding to explain why there's only six. And based off observations and measurements, those two that are so close together used to be visibly separate. One literally has moved to hide.

And based off the similarities between the more commonly known Greek myth and the Aboriginal Australian myth, plus some other stuff, this myth could possibly even date back to when humanity still all resided in Africa!

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this has been sitting in my inbox for I don’t even know how long. Anon, if you’re still watching, what the FUCK does this mean

if you combine the first letters of the worlds in my url you get Papas

papas in spanish means potato

potato is related to the tomato and nightshade… 

i am most active durning the night and i also like sitting in the shade…

i like drawing with a shade

and you know what i draw with?!?!?

PAPER AND PENCILS

Fuck it

Coelacanth Friday

uhm. not to be pedantic, but this... isn’t quite how relativity works. Luna is, on average, 1.3 light-seconds from Earth. if a vessel made the trip around the moon at FTL speed, which it could not do because that’s not how velocity works, it would arrive roughly 2.6 seconds before it had left. assuming, of course, that you don’t subscribe to the notion that the universe can be treated holistically as one frame of reference. this was so close to being a cool and accurate sci-fi idea, but you missed the mark by about 3597.4 seconds.

NASA launches their Faster Than Light spacecraft and makes a round trip to the moon. Upon reentering earth’s orbit, they ask Houston for the time. Houston replies “Quit messing around with the coms, theres still an hour until launch”.