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Alpha Draconis used to be the north star, pointing always at true north, but now it has swapped positions with Polaris due to precession of the equinoxes and motion of the stars themselves...
In 3000 BC the faint star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the North Star. At magnitude 3.67 (fourth magnitude) it is only one-fifth as bright as Polaris, and today it is invisible in light-polluted urban skies.
Alpha Draconis (Thuban)
Futurama, episode: 'That Darn Katz!' The domestic house-cat is revealed to be from the 9th planet orbiting the star Thuban. Their planet having stopped rotating in the year 3,500 B.C. they travel to Earth to harness its rotational energy. However in the process, the "Space Cats" encounter the people of Ancient Egypt who worship them as gods, and as a result become complacent and domesticated; forgetting their original mission until the events of the aforementioned episode.
Alpha Draconis is a star system that can be explored in the Mass Effect 2 video game.
The Arabs did not interpret the constellation as a dragon, seeing instead an asterism called the Mother Camels.
In Chinese astronomy, constellation Draco were divided in two areas. The areas are:
Purple Forbidden enclosure (紫微垣, Zǐ Wēi Yuán)
The Black Tortoise of the North (北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ)
....can anyone here tell me how this thread reached over twenty pages...
Originally posted by Unknown Soldier
This is one of the more believable claims of his, funny as it sounds there are many children un accounted for gone missing over the years. I looked at a new york state stat on missing children one year and it was staggering, i just do not see how so many kids can just vanish dead or alive. Going to third world countries, south American countries does not fit in the equation. So then the question comes up, this does haunt me and really i do not doubt this in some way.
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
In two sentences or less....can anyone here tell me how this thread reached over twenty pages?
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
In two sentences or less....can anyone here tell me how this thread reached over twenty pages?
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
In two sentences or less....can anyone here tell me how this thread reached over twenty pages?
Originally posted by NightVision
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
In two sentences or less....can anyone here tell me how this thread reached over twenty pages?
Ignorantly jumping to the LEAST possible conclusion in an effort to bolster ones belief system or in an effort to make themselves popular among the believers is what has made the UFO subject the laughable joke that it is. Failure to understand that simple fact is what will keep this subject relegated to the dark corners of the internet, where if the average Joe (with even the use of half his brain) stopped by, he would run away and never come back, further setting this subject back yet ANOTHER generation....