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by jcims
983 days ago
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I bought a large telescope a couple of years ago and the first month was out for a few hours every night paying close attention to the sky. It's amazing how quickly your mind develops a map of what's there. Planets take on this odd motion/3d characteristic in your mind because they are very clearly moving against the backdrop. The orbital ecliptic of the planets become obvious and their mean flow towards the horizon reveals your latitude clearly and gives you this odd existential perspective on which you can visualize your latitude on Earth and its inherent spherical nature. You feel the spaceship we're on. All of this with just stuff that you see every night. A sudden bright light that is sixteen times brighter than Venus is going to catch everyone's attention. It's going to be unmistakable. People would have noticed the extra light cast on the ground and would have walked out of their homes to see what is going on. Everyone would have been talking about it. |
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That sounds wonderful.
> People would have noticed the extra light cast on the ground and would have walked out of their homes to see what is going on. Everyone would have been talking about it.
Absolutely. But that is not the question. The question is if the Hohokam petroglyph is depicting that phenomenon. And the evidence for that is simply weak. See more in this article: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/did-ancient-ameri...