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mustafar0111 t1_j52ehlj wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in It’s a crime against humanity that we don’t have a live feed telescope in space. by Timetraveler01110101

You can see them live but there is a delay.

You can run 300s exposure in NINA and it will auto-stretch it as soon as its complete. It sort of feeds as a slideshow.

It won't look as good as a fully stacked and processed image but you still can get a good look at a lot of the targets out there. Especially anything lower magnitude.

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TurelSun t1_j52cm6q wrote

Reply to comment by ClearOptics in Ancient humans and their early depictions of the universe: “It is no exaggeration to say that astronomy has existed as an exact science for more than five millennia,” writes the late science historian John North. by clayt6

Curious if you mean nearsighted people or all people needing glasses. There are tons of farsighted people like myself that need glasses to live in our modern society to get by, but wouldn't be significantly impacted even just a few hundred years ago if we didn't need to read or work with things on a small scale. I can see the stars just fine without my glasses. Additionally as people age they tend to need glasses as well and today people are living longer generally, so that is also creating more need.

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mcmalloy t1_j52ci8v wrote

Reply to comment by pmMeAllofIt in Ancient humans and their early depictions of the universe: “It is no exaggeration to say that astronomy has existed as an exact science for more than five millennia,” writes the late science historian John North. by clayt6

So what is the explanation? To me they clearly look like constellations and their relative placements are pretty accurate.

It’s just as valid of an interpretation of the relief as any other idea

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z57 t1_j52bf38 wrote

Reply to comment by Tentsni in Ancient humans and their early depictions of the universe: “It is no exaggeration to say that astronomy has existed as an exact science for more than five millennia,” writes the late science historian John North. by clayt6

Absolutely not all of it. For example, nothing of the interpretation of whatever pillar # that gets much attention (I think 42).

There's a few other things here or there that are compelling. But in general much of it is unsubstantiated, subjective, personal opinion he espouses with a very authoritative narrative sounding perspective.

Hancock aside the sophistication of the Tepe sites are very impressive and about 2x older than Egypt or Stonehenge

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z57 t1_j529sq5 wrote

Reply to comment by pmMeAllofIt in Ancient humans and their early depictions of the universe: “It is no exaggeration to say that astronomy has existed as an exact science for more than five millennia,” writes the late science historian John North. by clayt6

You're right. Of course, an ancient people who at least had a sophisticated enough understanding of technology, to make carvings in stone, and raise multi thousand pound pieces of rock into the air, did not use stars whatsoever to align said pieces of rock with the stars. The same stars, planets and nebulas that shone above their heads for about half the hours of day.

Hancocks theories regarding what the carvings mean is a completely different point of my original post.

Humanity has been using the stars for at least 12 millennia. Göbekli and the other Tepe sites in the area have barely been explored and excavated. More and more evidence will support humankind, having been technologically sophisticated much longer than main stream academics generally realize.

Just do some basic research and you'll see many sites in the area only just beginning exploration digging

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lunex t1_j529fom wrote

Reply to comment by pmMeAllofIt in Ancient humans and their early depictions of the universe: “It is no exaggeration to say that astronomy has existed as an exact science for more than five millennia,” writes the late science historian John North. by clayt6

Have you heard the theory going around that Graham Hancock is actually much much older than he claims to be? Some are saying he’s maybe as much as 13,000 years old and an immortal descendent of the same pre-Ice Age civilization he talks about on his show. Ever since this theory surfaced Hancock has been running scared, and has refused to take a simple blood test which would prove his DNA is ancient. And yet he won’t. You have to wonder, why is that? Do your own research and connect the dots. Could Graham Hancock really be suppressing his own lost pre-historic origins? Ancient Hancock Theorists say: yes!

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Decronym t1_j5294vu wrote

Reply to ClearSpace raises $29 million ahead of first debris removal mission by sillychillly

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ESA|European Space Agency| |L4|"Trojan" Lagrange Point 4 of a two-body system, 60 degrees ahead of the smaller body| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|

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gaze-upon-it t1_j5281nz wrote

Reply to comment by p0k3t0 in Ancient humans and their early depictions of the universe: “It is no exaggeration to say that astronomy has existed as an exact science for more than five millennia,” writes the late science historian John North. by clayt6

I had a similar experience in Peru at Machu Picchu, delayed train back and it was amazing. People were asking “what is that?” You can get that view out west in the high deserts Utah, Nevada etc.

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