Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for November 25, 2014
November 24, 2014
November 26, 2014
Transcript:
Gracie: I was hoping to capture a great scene from our universe. Gracie: But I don't know if I succeeded. Dad: Actually, that's the constellation Eridanus, right? And the brightest is Achernar... Dad: ...The tenth-brightest star in the night sky. Gracie: Papi! You always know how to make me feel better!
cdward over 9 years ago
I did not know that.
Observer fo Irony over 9 years ago
He is probably making that up like all the other constellations are make believe.
fredd13 over 9 years ago
HE’s not making it up; that was the Ancient Greeks. Eridanus is the old Greek name for the river Po. The constellation starts a little below the celestial equator, east of Orion and south of Taurus, and the “river” snakes between other constellations over halfway towards the south celestial pole, ending with Archenar. A few degrees higher up the sky and it might have taken Taurus’s place in the zodiac.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 9 years ago
Agreed Gracie.
banjinshiju over 9 years ago
Now we know where Gracie gets her intellectual interests. She inherited it form her father.
markjoseph125 over 9 years ago
I’m a little surprised that some creationist didn’t drop by to “enlighten” us to the fact that Achernar is 139 light years away, so its light has been traveling toward us for 139 years whereas, say, the Whirlpool Galaxy is about 23 million light years away, and so its light has been traveling toward us for 6,000 years!