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@neiltyson My fav is iPhone Australis.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson As apposed to the Greeky names in the North.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Geeky in Greek?!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Can we assume that Polynesians, Aboriginal Australians, etc had already given them older, less geeky names?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@Qldaah They sound like they'd be great names for characters in Harry Potter's world ...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson I think these 17/18th century constellation names predate the industrial revolution. But they fit the rise of modern science.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson My favorite is the Enhancement of Plutocracy by Mass Self-Rental Inducement.. So sick..depraved even. Also, The Factory Slave ^_^Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson as opposed to the Northern Constellations being GreekyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson "Phoenix?" Because he's here. Followed up on Base 8 Arithmetic and Base 16 0900, interesting enough EMI considers most of this.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Well you ruined it, I thought they were just smarter down under.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson It's always been so funny to me that all the southern constellations are so "modern"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson just read that at the speed of New Horizons it would take 28 million years to get to new earth-like planet just discovered.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Oooooh! So Those are the geeky ones...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson that would be renamed indigenous Australians had named them long before the industrial revolution: http://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/6927/stories-in-the-stars.pdf …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Also the unofficial and mundane. My dad pointed out The Saucepan to me as a kid. (Actually a bit of Orion)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Too bad we don't have another hemisphere so a nerdy round of constellation naming could commence...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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