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Gow damn perverts! alien sex tourists.

Now, You have a point

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Yes prehistoric people, even the caveman like homo erectus, were astronomers to a point.

Though theidea earth was flat was the dominant view until 2000 or so years ago.

>However, we would want to study them to see how they evolve so we’d probably scope the planet for years and years

Have you met humans before? History says invasion and slavery are very likely

As for aliens being here and letting us seeign them, it seems unlikely

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If we found a planet full of stone-age whatever. We would kill them and take their planet/resources. I'm not even trying to be edgy thats just our track record. New, fertile, unspoiled land and the people have no concept of money or ownership? I believe that's refered to as free real estate.

Just like chemistry and alchemy, they were the same thing for most of history.

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But how to explain the anal probes? What's up with that?

The fact that people thousands of years ago managed to figure out that precession is even a thing, let alone calculating it so precisely, hurts my brain.

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Relative to you they’d still be alien life forms, even if the planet is theirs.

I've yet to go somewhere high in altitude and low enough in light pollution, but the college town I was in was somewhat decent. One night a friend got me to go out and stare at the sky until my eyes adjusted. It was pretty faint, but damn was it cool actually seeing the milky way for the first time.

Now I live in a city where I rarely even see stars in the sky :-/

Earth being a rock in space is ancient knowledge.

What space is and the fact that there are lots of other rocks in space is much, much more recent.

I don’t think Shen Kuo’s willow leaf explanation (where traversing the “point” is part of the explanatory power and not mathematically explained) of retrograde motion in a geocentric model is in the same realm as Kepler producing the math showing elliptic orbits in a heliocentric model.

page 17 is where I found some some more details

For anyone interested in Indigenous Australian astronomy I recommend the work of Duane Hamacher. It’s not without flaws, but does offer a good place to start.

When I was working in the Northern Territory of Australia I recorded some rock paintings and associated stories which involved stars and Dreaming spirits. I was particularly surprised by the specific astronomical understanding of different types of stars - really fascinating stuff.

I get a sense of awe whenever anybody talks about seeing a clear night sky. I had the pleasure to be at a party on private land in the middle of Wales with no light glare about ten years ago during the perseids meteor shower.

I lay outside watching the stars for a long time and the shooting stars... hundreds upon hundreds of them. I've never seen the sky so clear, nor that many shooting stars ever.

I had this feeling of connection to the whole Universe. As vast as it was, it was close, and I felt I could sense life everywhere doing the same as me in that moment too, looking back towards me. It was overwhelmingly beautiful.

I'm a musician, and I've written many songs about that feeling, awe in that one moment, and I probably will continue to for the rest of my life.

I've been chasing it ever since to see the same thing again. I hope I do one day.

It's the world's first science. We had accurate models of the solar system before the plow was invented. The fucking plow.

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as entertaining as his theories are, never forget that hancock is an anti scientific grifter. no disrespect to you, just trying to warn you that the man's fundamentally wrong in his assumptions and explanations of history. Many ancients were definitely experts in astronomy but that has nothing to do with graham's incorrect and flawed assertions and logic.

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No worries. Yeah it's thought provoking. Reminded me of some hard sci-fi from Neal Stephenson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Dan Simmons, Vernor Vinge. Etc. in a good way. Those authors generally are harder(ish) sci-fi and kinda try to stay in the rhelm of scientifically, accurate/plausible story lines.

I personally try to assume positive intent. Though reading up on someone helps me understand where they're coming from, when I too don't have voice or face to reference.