What's mildly amusing you today?

Undertoad · 03-11-2012, 06:23 PM

Been watching these guys for the last few weeks. And the thing that always strikes me is

Thousands of years ago mankind usually had a perfectly dark sky; and so, every clear night, unlike us, they saw all 6000 visible stars and the Milky Way.

They didn't have TV. Entertainment of any kind was hard to come by. Even books, no. Drama, no. Shakespeare had not been invented. All they had was this night sky, and the moon and the patterns, which moved around during the year. And then these other things, brighter than the usual stars, that actually did move around faster; man, if you didn't know anything about it, that could really mess with your uneducated brain.

You would really be trying to figure out what all the patterns mean, and maybe to connect it to the rest of the physical world that you are aware of.

03-11-2012, 06:23 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Been watching these guys for the last few weeks. And the thing that always strikes me is Thousands of years ago mankind usually had a perfectly dark sky; and so, every clear night, unlike us, they saw all 6000 visible stars and the Milky Way. They didn't have TV. Entertainment of any kind was hard to come by. Even books, no. Drama, no. Shakespeare had not been invented. All they had was this night sky, and the moon and the patterns, which moved around during the year. And then these other things, brighter than the usual stars, that actually did move around faster; man, if you didn't know anything about it, that could really mess with your uneducated brain. You would really be trying to figure out what all the patterns mean, and maybe to connect it to the rest of the physical world that you are aware of.

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