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CAHSEE 8.5 Passage Drill. What does the author suggest by comparing the constellation to a connect-the-dots picture?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by connect the dots the preferred method of artistic expression

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of astronomers everyone All right humans use company three Night

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traveling north stein a guy for me James bond is

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from stories this time All right Read this excerpt from

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the selection This one right here from our perspective on

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earth the stars all appeared to form a single connect

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the dots picture but they're actually very far away from

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each other Right What is the author suggest by comparing

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the constellation to a connect the dots picture and here

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the pencil answers on their way Well as long as

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we've got a handle on what the author does and

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does not say in the article this one's not so

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tough Well we guess that's probably true of every question

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but anyway take choice duel for example please Nowhere in

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the article does the authors say that all the constellations

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look exactly the same If that were true then all

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the stars would be evenly spaced The nighttime sky might

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look more like a giant polka dot blanket then a

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connect the dots pick way have tended to option b

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Sometimes it can be kind of hard to pick out

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a single constellation from all those dots in the sky

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A constellation junkie might see a giant hunter when they

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gaze up at a ryan but to the average joe

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it might look like a giant cities on the sky

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The important thing here however is that the author doesn't

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weigh in on whether or not the constellations looks like

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the pictures they represent so option b is off the

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table It's a little hard to argue with choice cia's

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well if you tried long enough you could probably find

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a picture of almost anything in the stars They look

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like a bunch of random shiny dot so it's Not

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too hard yet again the author says nothing about this

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though so we'll cross off choice See option a is

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the only answer the author mentions making it the obvious

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choice from the vantage point of our little space rock

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here honor it looks like all the stars in space

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are roughly the same distance away from us on one

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giant sheet of sky like points on a connect the

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dots picture In reality though some stars or trillions of

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miles closer to us than others even among those in

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the same constellation though the connect the dots comparison is

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meant to illustrate how we see stars distances in Comparison

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to their actual distances from us Sometimes we like to

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make up our own consolations Last night we sketch that

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one for joan rivers who loves you john looking down 00:02:40.115 --> [endTime] on us from up on high

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