Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.

UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I guess we are trained to see the sun as the center due to historic reasons. Really helps with not assuming everything revolves around us.

  But the sun also provides a Bright center for the drawing so there is some artistic merit, I believe.

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• faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why is it weirder to put the sun at the center than to put the earth at the center?

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  • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well if Earth is at the center than this is everything we can see in the observable galaxy from our viewpoint. Having it this way seems like out solar system is the center of it all

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    WE kind of had that discussion in the 16th century, really.

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      that was about the solar system though, not the observable universe

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just for artistic reasons so it can look like an eye

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