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Complete_Idi0t
11/17/17 12:26:42 AM
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LookANinja
11/17/17 12:34:45 AM
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DoctorVader
11/17/17 12:37:27 AM
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The stars used to talk and told them.
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Dragonblade01
11/17/17 1:00:43 AM
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How do you know the difference between a drop of freshwater and a drop of saltwater?

Exactly.
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Complete_Idi0t
11/17/17 1:16:21 AM
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They taste the planets?
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pegusus123456
11/17/17 1:17:37 AM
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They don't flicker.
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Dragonblade01
11/17/17 1:28:12 AM
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Complete_Idi0t posted...
They taste the planets?

With their eyes.

They taste the planets with their eyes.
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MrNintendo1213
11/17/17 1:38:43 AM
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By their position. The stars move in unison but planets kind of go back and forth in the sky, as the earth moves around the sun.
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Foppe
11/17/17 1:46:47 AM
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Math.
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UncleBourbon33
11/17/17 1:47:56 AM
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How did we know how the land masses were shaped before we could see them from space?
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Foppe
11/17/17 1:49:48 AM
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Math again.
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MabusIncarnate
11/17/17 1:53:46 AM
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They mathed the fuck out of it is what I learned here today.
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Complete_Idi0t
11/17/17 2:15:18 AM
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UncleBourbon33 posted...
How did we know how the land masses were shaped before we could see them from space?


They looked at an atlas
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Capn Circus
11/17/17 2:18:57 AM
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UncleBourbon33 posted...
How did we know how the land masses were shaped before we could see them from space?


We didn't. People like Christopher Columbus went on adventures.
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synth_real
11/17/17 5:07:24 AM
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The planets move through to sky relative to the stars, and some of them are pretty bright. Venus in particular does some pretty distinct things from stars, such as rising in the sky just before dawn, and being the third brightest object in our sky it really sticks out.
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