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z57 t1_j64xhwn wrote

Reply to comment by BJRibs in What is your under the radar app you use often? by Extreme_Peach3201

With you on that. I do like how with notes you can a several page pile of documents and scan them automatically pretty much. Just gotta flip the pages and then you can do an easy PDF export.

With simply wise when you scan the receipt it will determine the merchant and place it into a column, the date, total, taxes. And all of the various line items and put them in individual columns for an excel/numbers, spreadsheet, export. It's a great tool I use for the tax man.

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z57 t1_j544z0h wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] 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

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.

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z57 t1_j5438aw wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] 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 would agree with you.

And one has to take a look at who they're communicating with in order to have an quicker understanding of where they're coming from. If your feathers get ruffled by people reading through what you post that's on you.

I liked and enjoyed your post, btw.

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z57 t1_j5423ta wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] 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

Agreed. I didn't originally bring up Hancock, another commenter did. My opinion the ton of that comment was to conflate Hancock with the Tepe sites, and discredit humanity having understood the stars far longer than has been generally accepted. There are many mainstream academics doing real research on Tepe. I having done a decent amount of reading of their work (by no means all of it); it does seem that some of the pillars were purposefully arranged to alight with astrological dates.

That really was my point. Humanity has been using astronomy as an exact science for about 12k years. And obviously it's controversial statement.

Also, lastly. Yes, I would agree with you to leave academic process to the academics most of the time. Recently I am sure you're aware of the extremely large glowing gas arc discovery by amateur astronomers. The cloud is about 3x larger than the moon, from our perspective, in the night sky. Totally missed by the actual academics.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/amateur-astronomers-find-glowing-gas-arc-near-andromeda/

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z57 t1_j53yv4i wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] 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

By reference the internet I mean read papers from the teams doing research on the Tepe sites.

It's really not much different than the very thought provoking but ultimately fanciful dismantling of Mercury, first proposed by Bradbury and now ostensibly emboldened by some maths and the think-tank FHI. Im really not here to defend Hancock, but he has presented some compelling ideas that rubs the mainstream academic community sore, as many newer ideas do, especially when it goes against the narrative. People call them idiots or pseudoscience pushers, until they give the idea a fair subjective chance.

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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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