Pat Flannery wrote:
indeed...think of the strange religious beliefs that might evolve
regarding just what was going on overhead; our star-like appearing
planets generated a great deal of mythology just by their movement;
imagine what ones that become visible disks would do in this regard- are
they moving closer and further away, or are they shrinking and growing
in size? In fairly short order the first would be suspected to be the

Well.. would it really be all that different from our moon (which is much
more active in beliefs than mere planets) except there would be more of
them and on different schedules?

case, based on the apparent reduction in size of people seen at a distance.
A hypothetical civilization on such a planet might have a fairly
accurate idea of true cosmology at a far earlier stage of its evolution
than any Earth civilization did. Imagine nomadic hunter-gatherers with
a understanding of a sun-centered universe with multiple worlds... is
one of the other moons where you go when you die?

I'm not certain that would happen, or at least happen considerably earlier
than on Earth (where it didn't really happen all that late either). But
yes, going to another Moon when you die sounds liek a resonable guess.

Io would make a pretty good hell.

Pat


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