Who Were The REAL Ancient Astronomers?

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  • Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
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    How were ancient people able to predict eclipses so well? How did they make predictions without modern science? What were they able to discover? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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    00:00 Ancient Smartphones
    11:53 Metonic & Saros Cycles
    26:20 Why Astronomy Mattered
  • Наука та технологія

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  • @robertcola2573
    @robertcola2573 6 місяців тому +5

    The segway for Patrion cracked me up. Well played sir.

  • @cyrilio
    @cyrilio 6 місяців тому +1

    Hey Paul, I've been reading about Anaximander recently. He lived 610 - c. 546 BC and was an amazing scientist. I'm flabbergasted about what he imagined way back then.

  • @ZeroOskul
    @ZeroOskul 6 місяців тому +2

    9:25 Hey! That's a first generation iPod touch!

  •  6 місяців тому

    another amazing video. Thanks Paul.

  • @0neIntangible
    @0neIntangible 6 місяців тому +1

    Heads bent down to look at the phone... or heads bent up to look at the heavens.

  • @robmecklenburg3790
    @robmecklenburg3790 6 місяців тому

    Very Enjoyable and informative. Thanks.

  • @Andy2e0ree
    @Andy2e0ree 6 місяців тому

    Great show Paul very informative many thanks

  • @SofaKingShit
    @SofaKingShit 6 місяців тому +1

    Upon seeing a smartphone even a homo erectus might perhaps simply point to a nearby monolith and be all like "meh" for they have seen the sky and it is full of stars.

  • @steveco1800
    @steveco1800 6 місяців тому +1

    I didn’t realise, but I needed that message today - no matter the chaos and unpredictably, the sun and stars will always be there and good times and the summer will return 😊.

  • @markusmencke8059
    @markusmencke8059 6 місяців тому +1

    Never underestimate our ancestors. They may not have had our tools and toys, but brain-wise… there likely was not much of a difference for several tens of thousands of years.
    Btw, I have an astrolabe sitting right behind me on my shelf. A beautiful piece of art, and at the same time an impressively precise instrument.
    Thank you for this video.
    Ad Astra. 🙂

  • @lorenzo.bernacchioni
    @lorenzo.bernacchioni 6 місяців тому

    I can't wait to hear the Patreon injection 😄... and as always top quality content from Paul, thanks!

  • @justsharki
    @justsharki 5 місяців тому

    Can you please make all those whole episodes you mentioned. That would be great. You are also great, thank you!

  • @zimmy1958
    @zimmy1958 6 місяців тому

    Great talk. Thanks.

  • @ZeroOskul
    @ZeroOskul 6 місяців тому +1

    I built a time machine, once, but it was just special effects.

  • @OMADRevolution
    @OMADRevolution 6 місяців тому +1

    No words

  • @suyashjha679
    @suyashjha679 6 місяців тому

    "Look out at the sky" REALLY???
    It's so polluted out there that you'd need a James Webb to get a glimpse of stars

  • @wanderingassoul2119
    @wanderingassoul2119 5 місяців тому

    This is great. I especially appreciate this gentleman's self aggrandizement.
    He's better than everyone, and he knows it.

  • @willinwoods
    @willinwoods 6 місяців тому

    Thank you! This is really poetic, and a worthy tribute to the amazing history of science.

  • @arlenestanton9955
    @arlenestanton9955 6 місяців тому

    Ancient people spent a lot more time outside, then we do nowadays.

  • @kxqe
    @kxqe 6 місяців тому

    The earliest individuals on Earth to look up at the sky and observe the Sun and the Moon and the stars were our ancestors who lived about 300 million years ago. This was after the eye had evolved in the creatures who lived in the sea, and they crawled out of the sea and evolved a brain that could recognize objects in the sky. Those were the first astronomers, but they probably didn't try to write anything down though.

  • @CountryRam-jv5xr
    @CountryRam-jv5xr 6 місяців тому

    Best one ever

  • @geordiedog1749
    @geordiedog1749 6 місяців тому +1

    Wow!

  • @hankyou
    @hankyou 6 місяців тому

    Beautiful Paul! ;^)

  • @mjproebstle
    @mjproebstle 6 місяців тому

    Civilizations which interpreted the sky flourished. Those that didn’t, died off.

  • @robertvesetas8751
    @robertvesetas8751 6 місяців тому +1

    "There ain't half been some clever bastards ", the sage Ian Dury.
    Paul you have really hit this out of the park. Loved it!

  • @TeethToothman
    @TeethToothman 5 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @Max_Flashheart
    @Max_Flashheart 6 місяців тому

    Maybe if Angry Birds was available no one would go to the 5 days party.

  • @kricketflyd111
    @kricketflyd111 6 місяців тому

    People back then were also teaching about dark matter and energy, today it's scrubbed/hidden and lock away from our understanding. 🌼🔥

  • @truthmonger7
    @truthmonger7 6 місяців тому

    For more on this topic, No King But Caesar & The Return Of The Melchisedec is available online at Advantage Books. Peace to all.

  • @peterkallend5012
    @peterkallend5012 6 місяців тому +1

    It turns out you don't have to go back in time to find people who aren't impressed with your smartphone. I, for one, am definitely not impressed.

    • @rickhunter1454
      @rickhunter1454 6 місяців тому +1

      You should be, it’s really a very very impressive device.

    • @randymakin477
      @randymakin477 5 місяців тому

      I too am not impressed with said smart phone

  • @drewstudlino5885
    @drewstudlino5885 Місяць тому

    does all this information sound familiar, it's the story of the fallen and there sharing the forbidden knowledge..

  • @raraujo4951
    @raraujo4951 6 місяців тому

    Wow.. tMr Sutter... you are the best!!! ... amazing!!
    And while listening to you telling us all that increible things, a "gost" showed up in my mind... a gost we used to call "time"... which separate "events" and it is in the escense of any "prediction"... amazing!!.... Thank you for such a deep and meaninfull episode. 🫶👍👍👍

  • @drewstudlino5885
    @drewstudlino5885 Місяць тому

    does all this information sound familiar, it's the story of the fallen and there sharing the forbidden knowledge..