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I actually remember a couple of diagrams in a science book way back in elementary school, so we’re talking 70s here, showing the Big Dipper today and what it wo
by whartung 3y ago
I actually remember a couple of diagrams in a science book way back in elementary school, so we’re talking 70s here, showing the Big Dipper today and what it would look like in 50,000 years.
It was a kind of weird feeling as a young boy “seeing” change to something considered so static, and all the deeper considerations from that.
- Tommstein 3y agoI've played with Celestia and had it draw the constellations, then zoomed around the galaxy and seen how they got distorted as I moved away from Earth and saw them from different angles. Really drove home that the constellations are three-dimensional arrangements, not flat.