> I don't know constellations because I don't depend on them for navigation. I'm not sure why else I should even care that a bunch of ancients thought this bunc

> I don't know constellations because I don't depend on them for navigation. I'm not sure why else I should even care that a bunch of ancients thought this bunch of stars looked like this animal or that one. One of the weirdest things I found while doing Astrophysics research is that people still use constellation names for most references. There are more thorough catalogue references to stars, but most papers reference "π Sco" (where Sco is short for Scorpius). It was quite bizarre, but it makes sense for a field that is that old. On the downside it meant that whenever a supervisor used relational terms to a constellation I would have to look at a star map (since I have no idea about constellations either).