Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 05, 2014

Oh, look…the Catnip Constellation,

So is that Schrödinger’s box

I’m with you Arlo.

See Sam Stall, “100 Cats Who Changed Civilization” on Schrodinger’s cat.Not that I knew anything about this before going to Wikepedia. Not complaining, but JJ is going out for the obscure. Beats the hell out of the idiotic stuff abut his brat’s family. Love the Catfood Can Constellation.

Scorpio certainly looks like a scorpion; you can get the main features of a bull out of Taurus; Triangulum looks EXACTLY like a triangle – it’s three stars. OK, Corvus doesn’t much look like a crow, but Corvus the trapezoid isn’t very poetic.

Don’t forget Orion.

…cause if you forget Orion he’ll give you a belt!

The cat must be experiencing memories of his ancestors when they traveled the seas for adventure and the occasional morsel of food that creeps on.

The Big Sandbox? Doesn’t ring.

It’s a giant can of cat food! Now he just needs to see a giant can opener in the sky. The mousie doesn’t require hardware.Then a fancy cat bed with a brass railing. It;s all in the eye of the beholder, right?

The great Litter Box in the Sky. Very clever, Mr. J.

He had no problem finding the milky way.

Interestingly both the Romans and the Cherokee saw the big dipper as a bear.

Trivia: In ancient Egypt, Army conscripts were asked how many stars they could see at the bend of the Big Dipper.If they only saw one (Mizar) instead of the second, weaker Alcor above it, they were not ‘front-line’ troops and were stuck with rear-echelon jobs. Just a nerd-note from yer ol’ Unca Jim.

When we moved to St. Pete, FL, in 1944, you could see the north star (“Polaris,” I just learned it’s called). You’d line up the two stars at the front of the bowl in the Big Dipper, and they’d point you to faint little Polaris in the Little Dipper. No, longer, however. There’s way too much light pollution around here.

The first panel is a cat food DISH, not a cat food can, I think.

Also, the symbol on the Subaru car represents the constellation.

In Norway the constellations are Ole, Lena, Bertha and uffda……

Gokie5: Here in “rural” Bonham, TX, nothing below second magnitude can be seen. “Out in the country”, it is an exceptionally clear night if one can see the Milky Way. Light fog is the main problem, but photochemical crud from “the Metroplex” (Dallas/Ft. Worth) is a lot of it. I have only seen Mercury twice and the last three Persiads were clouded over..comicsssfan: Try looking at them through binoculars or a telescope. My wife gave the best description, “I can’t see where you WOW!”`

Since Men In Black Orion’s Belt is a cinch.