And if you were to point to it in the sky, 999 out of 1,000 Americans (at least) would call it "the Big Dipper". I think that proves my point. Even in America, even here at FR, we can't agree what that set of stars looks like. We can't even agree on which which stars and how many to include in the image of the most famous one of them all.
Which strengthens my argument for contact as opposed to mystical Jungian stuff.
"Big dipper is only a piece of the Great Bear."
"And if you were to point to it in the sky, 999 out of 1,000 Americans (at least) would call it "the Big Dipper". I think that proves my point. Even in America, even here at FR, we can't agree what that set of stars looks like. We can't even agree on which which stars and how many to include in the image of the most famous one of them all."
The Big Dipper is one of the few really obvious constellations, along with the "Big W" (Casseopia, I think), Orion, and the thing that looks like a Big Sicle (I don't know the name of it). Those four just leap out at you because the stars that make them up are so bright you just sort of see them. I knew what Orion was, and with those very stars too, for about 15 years before somebody gave me the name for it, because Orion is obvious. So's the Big Dipper. But if you take the Big Dipper and make a bear out of it by adding stars, well, that ain't obvious. The Little Dipper is not a bit obvious - that one you have to be taught to see (and the way we're taught to see it is by looking at the obvious: the Big Dipper, and then moving from there).