“Fish are really old and that fucks my shit really bad.”
~H.P. Lovecraft
Sharks are older than cringe
Sharks are also older than this cringe ass nerd (depending on what you count as a shark).
it’s a 1.5 billion-year-old star
sharks are 300 million years old at best, if you date them to their ancestors in the Permian period
idk anything, ignore me, I’m just a simple, ill-tempered sea bass
Polaris Aa is only 60 ish million years old, polaris Ab is under 500 million. Polaris B is the 1.5 billion years old one. Polaris A is the vastly brighter of the three and is typically what people mean when they refer to the three stars.
Also re: the age of sharks, 300 million is a low estimate. It’s like 300 to 420 million, depending on how you define a shark.
holy shit its an austin powers reference lmao. My sister, my cousin, and I used to quote that movie ALL THE TIME. There are still some I use regularly, like “Allow myself to introduce… myself” when meeting strangers usually at a bar or party or something.
It is up. Like, it is the most up a thing can be.
Its not directly up tho, polaris’ degree off-horizon is equal to your latitude. The star at up-most zenith changes contantly.
The stars we see with just our eyes in the night sky are mostly all incredibly huge, bright, short lived stars. Betelgeuse is only 10 million years old, having formed well after the extinction of the dinosaurs. It’s already on death’s door, and could explode at any moment now (speaking on geological time-scales)
