bella notte

[fuckyoucamp]

[meteor showers are not an uncommon astrological phenomena, merely a happenstance of celestial debris. as the galaxy's meteoroids travel their set trajectories, their exteriors shed layers of ice and dust in their wake. if Earth's rotation turns itself into this trail of cosmic waste, the debris sucks itself into the Earth's gravitational pull and

Comments

[x_autnihil]

Aquarius, Pegasus...

[justwannahave]

Naming the constellations?

[x_autnihil]

The ones I see. Are you familiar with them?

[justwannahave]

I'm not one for astronomy--but they are pretty if you get a clear sky to look at them.

[x_autnihil]

*pointing, outlining* That one is Aquarius, Jupiter's water bearer.

[justwannahave]

Don't they have different names under the Greek system?

[x_autnihil]

*nods* Ganymede and Zeus. Are you familiar with the myth?

[justwannahave]

Something about a very pretty boy who caught old Zeus' eye? He got around, Zeus did.

[x_autnihil]

Heh. He certainly did. I'm surprised the tales are still around.

[justwannahave]

Mythology is still around. Books and the internet keep the old stories alive even if television doesn't.

[x_autnihil]

Yes, but mythology from that culture. I understand my own society's attachment to it, but I was startled to see how dear it still was.

[justwannahave]

Western civilisation keeps a lot of it's old stories, I guess. There aren't that many original stories.

[x_autnihil]

The good ones just get repeated over the years.

[justwannahave]

Yes--and there'll be things to remind us too. *looks up at the sky*

[x_autnihil]

I read that New York City is always bright, even at night.

[justwannahave]

Yes--it's all the lights we have on. Sometimes, it's known as the city that never sleeps.