Sunday, July 17, 2011

Weirdness in Stellarium: row of 30 stars almost lined-up!?

I have NOT downloaded all the star catalogs, but the stars of Aquila DO line up with Antares. This is an excellent demonstration of confirmation bias, where humans make significant patterns out of a random distribution of dots where no such significance exists. It's not a programming error, unless you count the wiring of humans brains as a programming error. ;-D

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