What did you mean by "water"?
They need to take more water with it ...
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Even if Eridanus did look like a human profile, (which it doesn't), constellations are arbitrary patterns.
Not "discern" but "superimpose". Those of feeble intellect seek the familiar in all things. In fact the sentence is exactly back to front: some people apply patterns where there are none, and seek to discern meaning from the meaningless.
But the question needs to be asked WHY are humans able to discern such patterns and apply meaning?
Perhaps these star patterns, and their likeness, are a way of directing us to look deeper. Maybe they are like road signs that are meant to be read and direct us?Anything with the power to arrange the stars is quite capable of communicating in plain English. Or indeed any other language.
A sort of cosmic GPS.GPS is cosmic. Unlike mysticism, it is unequivocal.
This is the best picture I could find. It is sideways, but you can see both Cetus and Fornax above Eridanus.
Its my personal opinion that the ancients where directing us to these specific constellation because the Great pyramid points to them.
It says that it is Taurus, so I'm assuming it is Taurus the Bull yes.I thought it looked like bull
I thought it looked like bull
The Great Pyramid ... Perhaps this is what the new world order is all about?
But the question needs to be asked WHY are humans able to discern such patterns and apply meaning?Much of the internal workings of the brain involve pattern matching, which makes it an extremely capable pattern recognition device. The question has been asked, and the most widely accepted explanation is, predictably, an evolutionary one, crudely summarised as 'spot the camouflaged predator before it eats you'. In general, the detection of patterns in the environment helps detect and predict events, e.g. tracking animals; predicting the behaviour of predators, prey, and other people; predicting weather; recognising plants and when their fruits are available; etc. There is an area in the brain dedicated to recognising faces.
Perhaps these star patterns, and their likeness, are a way of directing us to look deeper. Maybe they are like road signs that are meant to be read and direct us?No. They are patterns imposed on random data; constellation stars may appear to be grouped from our position, but the stars in them are often of widely varying distances from us, so the constellation would not appear from even a slightly different position of view. You can do the constellation exercise with any random pattern of dots.
Utter piffle. The shape of the Hebrew alphabet is entirely due to its being written from right to left with a flat nib held in the right hand. Modern italic handwriting has the same characteristics, backwards.
There's a classic problem in medical psychophysics called the ring artefact. If you present an image of a disc consisting entirely of random black pixels, i.e. pure noise, people will swear that there is a pattern of concentric circles inside the disc, but if you set up a pattern recognition algorithm to look for them objectively, they aren't there. All very funny except that sometimes there really is a ring artefact in a CT or MRI image, which is indicative of a machine fault!
Yeah, but I just tried writing Hebrew (or indeed any other marks on parchment) with a flat nib. It looks like a spiral edge-on.