Where you are, sure, but it’s quite exotic to us up north! We don’t get to see it at all.
For us, it’s the Big Dipper and Little Dipper. And then Orion’s Belt.
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Nein, ist es nicht.
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The plow, or plough.
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Nein, auch nicht der Pflug.
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Otava.
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IVs for homecare aren’t the usual drip system, but come in a little bomb with an elastic membrane that squeezes it out. (You have to take them out of the fridge an hour before so that the elastic warms up.)
I wonder if this is a space spin-off, because this is what you’d need in zero-G?
eta: Make that at least an hour and a half out the fridge, and it still needs to be manually squeezed. (I assume that there’s a flow regulator.)
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Was ist das?
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My first time south of the equator was in Peru. The first night there, after 18 hours driving from Lima to Tingo Maria, the guy we were with took us outside to show us the Cross in order to make sure got to see it. He was pretty happy with himself. And I was pretty stoked, too.
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after the accident that lost me my right leg, i was on homecare with a pic line. i used those “bombas” to deliver antibiotics twice a day. there was no squeezing, as it went straight into my heart and pumped it all in. can confirm the hour and a half out of the fridge. it was still cold! had to self-administer twice daily for 8 weeks. not fun.
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In fairness, I did say:
So my “us” referred to North America, not Europe.
The Big Dipper has a particular historical significance for us: the handle with the North Star helped escaping enslaved people head North.
What do you call that constellation?
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I only saw these stars in old cartoons on tv…
Ah, “As Três Marias”, three stars called Mary. But isn’t a constellation. It is an asterism.
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I remember my father pointing to the stars up there in the sky and very seriously saying that the universe is so big and the stars so far away, that many of them must even have gone out, but their lights will still shine for a long time, because it’s going to be a long time before the last flash gets here.
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Großer Wagen?
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Asterism, yes! You are so right!
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No, no, no. You guys already managed to hog “the western hemisphere” somehow.
“North” is everything on one side of the equator. “South” is everything on the other side.
And not to put too fine a point on it, leaving out Аляска - sorry, Alaska - for the sake of the argument, the bulk of the continental US is lower than the south of France, longitudinally speaking.
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I have lived most of my life about on the same latitude as Anchorage and I am southerner.
Now days I live in even further south 60.2°N.
You mean the Base Star?
Oh and hokuto ain’t the North Star.
And that is obviously a salmon fishing net not a dipper or a plough.
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When the subject of “origins” comes up here in Alabama, I usually say something like:
I grew up in the South. We really, really didn’t like Northerners. But we learned to get along with them because we liked going to Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm. Plus there was great surfing at Trestles and Seal Beach up there.
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Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
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