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“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another” – Plato

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    • Another Name Generator and other things seen

      I was listening to Seth Shostak’s “Are We Alone” and it seemed a little odd this week. The guy he was interviewing seemed a bit like a crank. But I hadn’t researched what he was talking about, so maybe that was part of the weirdness of the world. Then around 8mins in came the line. [...]

    • Is there any evidence that Delphinus was used to keep time?

      For all the speculation that Delphinus was used to time rituals, there is a still a major problem. Namely that they would appear to be a daft bunch of stars to choose. They glimmer at around magnitude 3.5 to 4, which is faint. There are hundreds of brighter stars, so can we be sure that [...]