I don’t understand how one night a guy looked at the stars and said that if you draw a line between certain stars you can see a lion. And also were they chosen at random?
In: Planetary Science
Humans have had every night for 10s of thousands of years to stare at the sky and wonder. Lots of time to pick out new shapes and tell their friends.
It’s only really on the last few hundred years that we have created this much light pollution that a large chunk of our population rarely even sees the stars.
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