Took the Ancestry DNA kit and the results came back today. Jack's came in yesterday.
Me - Jack
49% Ireland/Scotland/Wales - 32%
36% European West - 15%
6% Great Britain - 22%
3% Scandinavian - 8%
1% Iberian Peninsula - 12%
1% European East - 9%
1% Caucasus - less than 1%
Jack also has Finland/North West Russia 1%
:idunno:
How do you do that?
And the other thing, is that I've been paying attention to the night sky recently, how the constellations move around with the seasons. Of course, it's us who are moving around, since the constellations have been the same for millennia, but it's very curious to watch the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, and now Orion, in different places in the sky than from the summer. I've also been struck at the fact that all these stars are always up there, shining down on us, and that it's only when we've rotated away from the sun that they are visible. And, that our atmosphere is crystal clear, in order for us to be able to see these stars, shining from hundreds, thousands, millions, and many millions of light years away. And finally, that in looking up at the stars in the night sky, we are not seeing the night sky, so much as we are seeing into outer space itself. And even more than that, that we are
in outer space, and the only thing keeping me breathing is this crystal clear sea of air that envelops the earth, protecting us from the dark nothingness.
All of this is because I'm now taking a dog out for its night time bathroom run, and there's not much else going on out there. :chuckle: