Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 01, 2009
January 31, 2009
February 02, 2009
Transcript:
Petey: That's Orion. Alice: Huh? Petey: It's a constellation, like a big dot-to-dot with stars. Ancient cultures invented them. Alice: Oh. I see. Petey: It's one reason ancient cultures aren't around anymore.
margueritem over 15 years ago
The Big Alice in the night sky, wonderful.
tourgent over 15 years ago
I’m going out tonight and look for it!
lazygrazer over 15 years ago
Good heavens!
kirbey over 15 years ago
The constellations always confuse me, but Alice figured it out.
DCStark about 13 years ago
This isn’t so far-fetched as it may seem. Many different cultures looked at the same asterisms in the sky, and came up with vastly different images”.
The “Big Dipper” is (in Latin) Ursa Major – the Great Bear.
In the British Isles, they called it variously the Plough, the Great Saucepan, or the Butcher’s Cleaver.
The ancient Hindus called it the Seven Great Sages.
In Africa, it was called the Drinking Gourd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper
gocomics almost 13 years ago
Stellarium lists the constellations of several different cultures as well. Personally, I think we need a “comic characters” constellation list!