Quote: Originally Posted by CDNBear
...if you were to look at the belt from a different declination on the globe, would it be closer to the assertion made in the movie?
No. It's about the relationships among various points in the sky. You'll see things from a different angle depending on your latitude and the time, but the relationships among the things themselves doesn't change with your changing viewpoint.
Quote: Secondly, would the passing of time have an affect on the position, between how we see it today, and how it was viewed a millenia ago?
Yes, some things change, due to changes in the earth's orbit. I'm a Taurus, for instance, according to sun sign astrology, but the sun wasn't in Taurus when I was born, it was in Aries. 5000 years ago it would have been in Taurus, that's when the ancients first set up the basis of astrology. But at no time in human history would the sun ever have appeared in a constellation that isn't one of the 12 in the zodiac. It passes through them all on about a 26,000 year cycle due to something called the precession of the equinoxes, which you can find a decent explanation of it in Wikipedia's article on precession.
