A Conversation for Polaris - the North Star
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Rod Started conversation Aug 9, 2011
Its Importance was obvious (to me).
It was the trigger that sparked off technology, starting, of course, with navigation then spreading to instrumentation and hence in ever-widening ripples.
Nowadays of course those thoughts are seen to be a degree off target. Nevertheless, I do sometimes allow myself to wonder if someone put it there, coming back later to build a polytechnic monolith.
They're due for a revisit pretty soon, I surmise.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Aug 13, 2011
Nobody put it there, because Polaris wasn't the north star for much of recorded history. It's only been the north star for a few centuries.
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Rod Posted Aug 13, 2011
Aye, but Northish for quite a while (precession and all that) - quite close sometimes?
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