Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 13:36:25 +0100
From: Spectacled Bear 
Subject: Re: (urth) Sev's skull and spring constellations

At 06:53 2003-07-07, maa32 wrote:
>Mooncalf recently brought my attention to recent studies on solar sails and 
>how they might be contiguous with mirrors.  So, are we to believe that the 
>solar sails reflected constellations that were actually on the other side of 
>the Urth, or are we to believe that a rift in the universe allowed the 
>unexpected constellations to appear?  

It's much simpler than that. If you hide the sun somehow (it doesn't
matter how) then you will see the stars that are normally obscured by
its glare. If the sun stays hidden, you would see a succession of different
constellations rise and set. By the normal time of sunset, the Earth would
have rotated to face the usual stars for the season.

Spectacled Bear.


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