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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by kyleyeats on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:06PM (#36947324)
Dung beetles do this too.
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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by gregsadetsky on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:14PM (#36947424)
that's nuts!

"- African dung beetles orient to the starry sky to move along straight paths

- The beetles do not orientate to the individual stars, but to the Milky Way"

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)...

https://www.science.org/content/article/dung-beetles-navigat...

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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by CMCDragonkai on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:02PM (#36950049)
So you can see astrological events do affect us.
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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by ozzmotik on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:25PM (#36975851)
s/log/nom/
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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by dylan604 on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:27PM (#36949097)
As long as there's not too much light pollution. Fortunately for the dung beetles, their habitat isn't very urban. However, it's the little examples like this that make me a light pollution dork.
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