Being that we do not have "all of astronomy figured out" in the present day, it is therefor safe to say that no one is claiming ancient peoples did either.

Alright, guess we’re starting a space pirate crew boys! 🏴‍☠️👽🏴‍☠️🛸🏴‍☠️

Whos up for plundering one of the silly little gray guys ships?

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Even with glasses some peoples vision is terrible. My wife kept complaining she couldn’t see the things I would point out. I took her out to the beach in the middle of nowhere and pointed out Cassiopeia and drew the main stars in the sand and had her fill in the stars around it by descending brightness. That was the day I learned that even with corrected vision, some peoples eyes just aren’t that good.

That's true but people are stupid and think that's astrology not astronomy

Describing the night sky or seasons is not astronomy. Yes, ancient peoples were often far more intelligent than we give them credit for. But it’s unnecessary to say they had all of astronomy figured out back then.

Absolutely, no guess there. It was Brahe and Kepler's astronomical collaboration that led to Kepler's discovery of "the force that moves the worlds" and, thence, Newton's theories of gravitation, motion, continuous mathematical functions, the speed of light, and so on.

So it probably was for everyone who studied the stars carefully. Whenever someone ever said, "I feel like it must be the equinox" and then consulted their astronomical rock markings and learned that, actually, no, irrespective of how they might feel the equinox is not for another 3 weeks.... that was science right there.

I think the big deal with this one is they were able to resolve down to the individual stars.

If you take a pic of M31 you'll capture the core and discs around it but you won't be able to resolve down to individual stars unless you've got some pretty expensive optics.

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I mean we see the "documents" all over, in stone.

Okay maybe not all over all over. But it's no kind of mysterious thing that we can only guess at.

It just makes too much sense, right?

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You can look up anytime you want. No one is stopping you. You can even buy a telescope if you want.

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I refuse to accept your line of thinking. Until we have FTL travel might as well enjoy looking up while we learn

It's a volume and density thing, when you're dealing with cubed radii it gets a bit non intuitive

This is my new Graham Hancock headcanon.

Fortunately Starship has the potential for as much as two.

Science. Astrophysicists can use the telescopes to learn how the universe actually works and refine theories. Telescopes are expensive and complicated to put in space and they can make better use of those then we can.

For just public interest telescopes on earth will do just fine if you setup the right equipment. Some of the newer automated one can do the entire process from image acquisition to stacking and auto post-processing live.

‘Allegedly’

>The explanation favored by Sagan is that the Dogon were visited by a technological civilization, but not an extraterrestrial one. The nature of the knowledge imparted is consistent with a visit by a science attentive person in the 1930s or 1940s when the discovery of the nature of Sirius B was being widely discussed in popular science books. This information could then have been woven into the Dogon's existing mythology in time to give Griaule and Dieterlen something very interesting to write home about.

>A variation on this theme is that the knowledgeable visitor and the source of the information might have been Griaule himself. Though an anthropologist, Griaule had studied astronomy in Paris. He was aware of the discovery of Sirius B and may have over interpreted the Dogon responses to his questions.

>In 1991 Walter van Beek, a Belgian anthropologist, led a team of anthropologists to study the Dogon tribe. Although he hoped to find evidence for their astounding astronomical knowledge, the team found no trace of the detailed Sirius lore reported by Griaule.

https://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0400/sirius_part2.html

What better use could there be other than to spark people’s interest in space and the realization we can pool our resources to get there

It’s called Darwin. Those people would’ve been dead quickly.

Edit: you can’t see, you can’t hunt for food very well back then. You also can’t see threats. So you’d be dead. Natural selection you stupid fucks.