2012 for reals?
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- TheBlueOne0
"and you're trying to figure how anyone found the center of the galaxy? its all related, feels like you're playing stupid"
ARRRGGHH
Fuck man, look, you obviously don't know what the fuck you are talking about and this is absolutely fucking frustrating. And I know this is a giant cockup waste of time on my part.
The "center of the galaxy" in terms of what determines the gravitational and rotational center is not visible to the naked eye. Even with telescopes it was unable to be determined with any accuracy. It was only with the advent of radio telescopes that they could see where the concentration of radio waves eminating from it where, and could thus determine where it was, within a few degrees of error. It is this center from which we calculate and understand the idea of a "galactic plane" from which all the mumbo jumbo you quoted from Jenkins above stems form.
The visible Milky Way from earth is NOT the whole of the galaxy, although the earth does seem to rotate about it, and it does appear in the sky, and there is an obvious, observable midpoint, much like we can say the sun is at the "center" of the sky at noon. This "center" of the milky way, as observable with the naked eye from the earth does NOT correspond to the where the center of the galaxy is as determined by modern means.
- so all the "passes the galactic plane" crap is NOT what the Mayans meant. And couldn't mean.TheBlueOne
- the center calculatable retard...it was calculated with mayan mathKwesiJ
- No it wasn't retard. Not the actual center...oh forget it...TheBlueOne