Re: OT: Corpses, etc. (was: Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)))
From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
Date: | Monday, November 10, 2003, 7:39 |
Quoting Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>:
> They also worship whichever of the planets are visible to the naked
> eye. (Can anyone tell me which those are? I've seen Mars and Venus
> myself, but I don't know if any others are visible without a
> telescope.)
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. If you've got good eyes and weather, it
should be possible to glimpse Uranus, but it's so faint and moves so slowly
against the stellar background that no-one recognized it as a planet before
telescopes came around.
Andreas