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internetboyfriend666 t1_j6cxd8o wrote

It's certainly possible. Our sun would be visible to the (human) naked eye out to at least a few dozen light years, so depending on how those alien's eyes worked, they could potentially see our sun as part of a constellation.

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uranusisenormous t1_j6d1gfb wrote

Good way of putting it. The sun is def visible to other planets. But a constellation is an abstract concept that almost certainly requires some kind of intelligence. I don’t think dogs look at the stars and see archers or lions or bears. And even if they did, they’d have no language to pass that info down through the generations.

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smilingpike31 OP t1_j6d5lwh wrote

Ha dogs be like “grrr woof! Woof woof woooof woof wof “ (translated: hmm yes a fucking dot in the sky)

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namikazeiyfe t1_j6e5ds2 wrote

I think it's human arrogance to think that THEY don't have some form dog language.

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12edDawn t1_j6fup4q wrote

I think it's pretty obviously implied that the aliens we're discussing have some kind of equivalent intellectual construct that mirrors our "constellations".

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