On Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:49:01 AM UTC-7, Paul Schlyter wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:30:50 -0700 (PDT), palsing wrote:

OK, I could have said "all day, every day"... and I also could have

specified "nearly at Polaris"...



Which wouldn't be true. In some 12 000 years, the Eart's axis will

point near Vega instead, for example.

Well, if you had actually read my post carefully, I did say that "right now the Earth's axis points continuously at Polaris,", implying that the pole location changes with time...