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> Anyway, for some reason they implicitly choose our point of view as the "interesting one", funny (/s, actually lame and sad) to see the geocentric model is still alive after two millennia!

> They also didn't check if other stars would form circles from any arbitrary point of view (how many circles are actually up there, not just the apparent ones),

I think (not sure of the proof) that any set of points that form a circle from a specific PoV would, from any arbitrary PoV form a regular shape (ellipse) or a straight line.

So we can probably tell if any group of stars/galaxies/bright-lights-in-the-sky form a "structure" (i.e. a regular shape).




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