(February 23, 2014 at 3:15 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Regardless of what one could say the state of science in the Islamic world today - they (amongst others) were instrumental in keeping astronomy alive while the Christian world was stagnant for many centuries.
Most of the star names we still use today come from the Arabic - Algol (the demon star), Aldebaran, Vega, Arrakis (yes, it really exists), Fomalhaut etc. Not to mention my personal favourite, Zubenelgenubi.
Nowadays I guess all stars would be named Allah or Mohammed and you'd get your head chopped off for saying them.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
