65,000 yrs - the great history of Australian Aboriginal Astronomy | Kirsten Banks | TEDxYouth@Sydney

[@dougg1075]

I live in hurricane alley and when they hit and knock out power for weeks, the sky is amazing and demands your attention.

[@Heldin33]

Actually, as Australians your so lucky! I am German and when I saw the “sky” for the first time was here in Australia. It’s impossible in crowded Europe to see something like this. So take this opportunity Australians. It’s a blessing.

[@tookyohead]

I would like to keep Australia that way were we can see the star skies at night. Sadly the worlds populations are out of control & Australia has more immigrants migrate to the continent than we do our own people reproduce. Essentially if the world can’t gets its population growth under control then you all are going to keep migrating to Australia. The 3% Indigenous people will have to contend with the influx of migrants forever drowning out their voices & the power of their vote. Australia’s reproduction rate is on the decline. We prop our economy up with large intakes of immigrants for labour workforce. Aus if a fake country that is run by the WEF. We are nothing but a money pot for the elites to extract out wealth via their big mining companies, military deals like scomo the pm who made a dodgy billionaire dollar aukus deal to then only get a job with the industry he gave money to which comes of as a conflict of interest but these things are normalised in a corrupt state that is owned by the Br1t1sh m0n4rch. The Euro feudal system Must die.

[@loa81]

Hello thank you so much for your Ted Talks episode. You are a natural storyteller and I enjoyed very much your presentation as well as the content. I’ve enjoyed archeology, astronomy, geology, and natural sciences my whole life (60+ now) It is very refreshing to hear you as a young person expressing your wonder & joy with their natural world. Culture does play a big part in seeing the world around us and it was very nice to see it in your eyes, expressions and great voice. Regards...

[@mariokajin]

That was the most poetic science talk I’ve ever seen and heard. Beautiful.

[@tommie3700]

For a community that struggles to convey their message and research, in especially layman's terms, she is a blessing to the science community! Honestly, just wrote a novel here :D

[@Laneth]

@@tommie3700 Kirsten's passion really shines through here, doesn't it? Her TikTok and Twitter are goldmines for people wanting to follow her journey of discovery and sharing.

[@juniordelaney1202]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. As a young Dunghatti Australian I find it hard to find much of my cultural history. Finding out we have such a rich connection with the stars has has really inspired me.

[@doolagaperson962]

I've heard there is A LOT that wasn't lost it just isn't taught to everyone anymore, you have to be inducted and whatnot

[@tookyohead]

@@doolagaperson962Good on what you “heard” bud. But you can’t deny reality. A lot was lost. The g3n0c1de of culture was almost complete, and the only reason stuff wasn’t lost was bc praise to the Indigenous people who kept parts of their culture alive while out of sight from their oppressors. My Great great uncles generation wasn’t allowed to talk their language. So he doesn’t know his language. Only 1% went around and actually learnt it. The rest suffered. My Nan didn’t learn the language. But 1 of her cousins did. It’s ppl like her cousin who kept it alive. While the Roman Catholic Church indoctrinated people like my Nan and made them scared to want to learn “culture” they put the fear in them! There’s a lot of denial and straight out lies to what happened in history. I’m not about lies. Yes there is culture alive, but it is only thanks to those strong Indigenous people who went against the fear of the doctrine of the church & the state.

[@EvilEves1]

That was beautiful. Her passion for astronomy radiated from her with the brightness of the stars.

[@anglomik]

Great talk, TEDx and so true. Nothing like the beautiful night sky, with a full moon, the stars & constellations. There is truly magic up there.

[@EricHebting]

This is brillant. We have to remember this knowledge.

[@dineshv2785]

She has the skill for attracting audiences for her speech. Addictive

[@saloniuppal]

We are the most important people for our parents compare then whole world🌍 Big Thumbs for all parents how always support their children's in every single steps of life 😊👍

[@englishteacherzahraa493]

Saloni Uppal Dear saloni, I would like to pay your attention for your Written English. we are the most important people.... ✔ while your sentence is wrong because you use we & are .

[@saloniuppal]

THANKS A MILLION DEAR FOR IMPROVE MY MISTAKE 😊

[@Darwinsmom]

This young lady is the first person I have ever heard speak of being enraptured by the night sky in a manner that matches my experience in New Zealand six years ago. Growing up in Northern Europe and in Canada, my familiar starscapes rarely struck me as particularly beautiful. Then I travelled to New Zealand, living out a dream I had held onto for a decade or more. One night, standing on my cousin's back patio in Wellington, I looked up at the night sky. Despite the city lights, I saw above me a sky speckled with glittering jewels that were totally unfamiliar to me. I was awe-struck by their beauty. I mean seriously overwhelmed! Knowing I was looking at the same stars that my gggGrandparents and their children lived their lives under after immigrating to New Zealand in 1864. My ggGrandfather was the only one of their children to remain in Ireland. I fell deeply in love with New Zealand in all her glory - the geography, the flora and fauna, the cuisine, the people - I couldn't get enough of any of it. But the stars! Oh, the stars! I only wish I had taken the time to appreciate the night sky when I visited Australia in 2005. I admit I am blessed to live in a country where on rare occasions we can see the Aurora Borealis when it rarely dips into the southern skies. But nothing is as enchanting as the cosmos as witnessed in Australasia. My life could end with my last sight being the night sky as I knew it in 2015, and I would leave this world with a massive smile on my face!

[@antonybrennan]

This is brilliant. Aboriginal people are still here and their knowledge is still relevant. There is no other culture on the planet that can lay claim to 65,000 years of heritage.

[@rogerroger6049]

Yep they've had the sky all figured out...spent so much time on it that they didn't get around to figuring out the wheel.

[@jozeflagocki8790]

@@rogerroger6049 Or writing skills. The so called 65,000 years history is to promote sales of their art and boomerangs. Yes, the highest achievement in their 65,000 history is a boomerang.

[@johnmurray4257]

@@jozeflagocki8790 that's funny they created a barbecue thousdands of years ago not to mention they had extensive knowledge of land, sea, plants,animals and the stars oh and did I forget to mention your beloved Sir Donald Bradman was bowled out for a duck by who......an Aboriginal 😂🤣facts m8 or should I say 2 deadly🤙

[@tookyohead]

⁠@@rogerroger6049The roads from Sydney to the blue mountains and the great highway in Victoria are built from song lines from the Indigenous Australians. They had an Aboriginal man guide them from Sydney to blue mountains, tracking & singing, showing the settlers the way. The settlers followed the tracker singing song lines and they built the road as they followed. Most Australians roads are built off of the navigation of land from the knowledge of the Indigenous. The first settlers accessed the Indigenous peoples ingenuity to utilise its efficiency to help build the country. The first settlers in Sydney would have starved to death if it wasn’t for the Indigenous people. The first colonial ships to resupply the colony were well & truly late. The colony ended up almost starving to death. Even though there was an abundance of food on the land.

[@richardcuttler7734]

@@rogerroger6049 or a sextant to measure the height of stars to calculate there position at sea.

[@faanengaaw7357]

im a Pacific islander frm the Micronesian region & we've been traveling the vast Pacific ocean around us using the stars & the wind only without using a compas. during the day we use the position of the sun, sea birds, sea currents, reefs & floating objects out at sea.

[@ronaldstarkey4336]

Navagator...

[@brettdonahue876]

Beautiful mate

[@faanengaaw7357]

Ronald Starkey sadly i did not get any of those arts. but atleast some of us still do.

[@warwicklewis8735]

@@faanengaaw7357 my ancestors used the stars the sun complex mathematical charts and sea currents to navigate around the whole world.....European

[@faanengaaw7357]

Warwick Lewis europeans started after we pacific islanders settled all the Pacific islands. Btw we did not have any charts. Everything was in our heads.

[@juliekemp419]

Very very good Kirsten. Love the sounds of Aboriginal instruments. So Earthy; so Deep; So Cymatic!

[@AndreaRodriguez-cj1kt]

So on top of the thousands of emus the Australians lost a war to, there was also a great celestial emu. Beautiful

[@andromedav.884]

You are ADORABLE, Kristen! THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge and experiences. VERY relevant and thought provoking! 🙏 ✨💚✨

[@chrisgonzales3433]

i hope we could also have a young and genius filipino like her in the philippines , she's an inspiration 🌈

[@shandyy8118]

El Link en español gracias

[@moonled]

An awesome and inspiring talk that would bring home the wonders of the night sky that most people don't take time to appreciate to the most weary human. And as a writer I love the delicious turns of phrase like "dazzling carpet of stars", "sparkling stars and glittering galaxies" (as a science fiction writer I may steal that one) "eternal dance choreographed by gravity"... Thanks for letting You Tube post this. I'll be sharing.

[@warwicklewis8735]

"Dazzling carpet of stars" is not hers

[@JakeZR7]

Awesome TED Talk on Astronomy!!! Crazy how this video was just posted when I was thinking about Astronomy!! From California also!

[@CosmicIntelligenceAgency]

How does indigenous astronomy work with seasons misaligned now with 40'000 years ago and precession and the 26,000 year cycle?

[@Roger-go6jc]

Adaptation and an intimacy with our world. Read Dark Emu. Mainstream discount a lot of detail, but the state of mind they can not take.

[@ian-f5f]

@@Roger-go6jc Dark emu has been thoroughly discredited as a work of fiction .

[@Roger-go6jc]

@@ian-f5f and that is a work of fiction in your comment. If you were actually invested in what it is to be Indigenous, and you actually LISTENED to oral history without the need to discount those realities covered in Dark Emu, you would find a wonderful world open up to you. Oral history backed up by physical remnants and even herbaceous survival tells a totally different story to your fiction. It is something predictable from colonial times that Aboriginal knowledge was always rejected as inconsequential to superior colonial culture and knowledge. That superiority is more than evident in your blanket statement. There is an ongoing joke about colonial ignorance replicating itself simply because it was unable to comprehend that the People standing before them had a wisdom of the ages that could have beautified their warlike and boundaries mentality. Yes we know your superior intellect well.

[@Roger-go6jc]

@@ian-f5f Yes we know. We have also been thoroughly discredited as a work of fiction for the last 250 years, so tell me something I don't know. Oral history, remnants of physical culture, and native plant usage and knowledge remind us of who we really are. It is a unfortunate joke that colonial superiority made it impossible for them to see the wisdom of the ages standing before them, because their minds were dumbed down by centuries of conquest and territorial ownership. Dark Emu is to people like you similar to the Yes vote- something to fear and deny.

[@Roger-go6jc]

@@ian-f5f The only fiction about it is when people like you make claims based on nothing but colonial ignorance.

[@Triple109]

What about our anicent civilization indus valley?

[@benschulz3871]

well done kirsten beautiful msg

[@thoughfullylost6241]

Great speech thank you you're far more generous to Western science than I am and I hope that generosity gives it some understanding of the deeper meaning Beyond surface knowledge

[@usedcarsuae.]

That’s nice video This that I was waiting for ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@johntomasini3916]

When I see my Wemba Wemba friend again, I am going to show her this video, she too will be in tears watching the night sky.

[@spirithawk2418]

Wonderful !! We need this understanding

[@geodinyerkobo6781]

Great Talk. Astronomy and Astrology are the mothers of science.

[@rogerroger6049]

I think she was talking about mythology not astrology.

[@heatherhill3547]

My favorite person my dad told me about this very subject and thank you 🙏 so much for this Ted talk important impressive information let’s kill light pollution

[@Rebecca-yg5ok]

Oh what a great speech keep up the great talk 👣🌌 I’m currently in Winton Queensland and the Milky Way and the sky is just spectacular! We just downloaded Star walk App and it’s amazing 🔮

[@WeDontWantYourWar]

Her passion is amazing, we need to see more of these younger role models

[@sharndawg007]

10:18 "...we're losing this knowledge, because we're losing the darkness..." in the sky AND in Australia's population!

[@jamespunch8049]

Yeah your all white now!

[@quantumfield8755]

Namaste 🙏🏽🌈

[@yoesh5484]

Watching from Nepal💚❤💙💗

[@chakramohora3698]

I'm so glad that you are from Nepal, who followed this kind of speech on yoitube...

[@valeniusthekat]

Much love from Central Indiana USA 💕👍

[@prashantrajbhikshu]

I am a simple Nepali. I see Nepal I hit like.

[@yobro5907]

omg WHERE DID YOU GET THAT JUMPSUIT?! yaaas

[@speedyblabla8679]

i have to watch this for a school task

[@navkaur4743]

She is incredible and lecture 👍👍

[@mistyrious1111starseed]

Good job!! I loved your speech!

[@jaxx-inspiregrowcreate2862]

*We live among the stars*

[@EvilEves1]

The Jaxx Channel - Self-Growth Health Wellness we are stars

[@CoopMauKona]

Here from the Skyentists. Congrats!

[@tomorrow6]

If we go with the 65,000 timeframe one should beat in mind that that is about the time frame where the megafauna of Australia were obliterated after having survived many various climate catastrophes prior. I suspect they made good hunting for a little while and then the best hunting became emus and kangaroos both of which have a high breeding rate to recover from hunting pressure. And in some areas the landscape was changed drastically by the introduction of fire based hunting technology.

[@Lux-x4y]

No. Megafuana was climate change and fire based hunting actually improved the land not harmed it given the knowledge acquired by the oldest culture on earth :)

[@tomorrow6]

@ but how did the megafauna survive all prior climate changes one wonders?

[@edsparkable]

I have to travel to the southern hemisphere to see the night sky one day. I just have to.

[@joannebuckskin8116]

I'm a Huge fan of this young First Nation woman .. thank you for sharing Kirsten cannot wait until you Dr Banks and have your own show on NITV

[@mattmccallum2007]

First Nations? She is hardly aboriginal

[@Derekmlacic]

her brother is my science teacher

[@omarivanmartinez8748]

WOW!, Incredible!

[@upgrade1583]

I know what you mean about amazing views out in the bush. It's amazing to see.

[@BalikesirCicek]

Başarılı bir sunum bilgiler için teşekkürler. Gökyüzü ve yıldızlar muhteşem.( Türkçe alt yazı çok kötü )

[@andrew30540]

Very cool!! Light pollution is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed!

[@simmerdownchick5518]

I crave to see the stars ✨. I’ve lived in the suburbs my entire life

[@bogglerful]

Yes, electrical lighting has made viewing the night sky more difficult, yet one can always drive into the desert, or into the mountains, and see the night sky in its magnificence. Let's celebrate the amazing accomplishments of modern Western civilization, and not unrealistically elevate stone age cultures.

[@mickwilson99]

I live in a swamp. Expeditions to mountains or deserts are difficult... but we could have a darker sky to inspire us.

[@heatherhill3547]

I watched that Hubble doc so awesome and amazing

[@lingux_yt]

came from Tiktok. great job!

[@yalcnkotek7015]

We want to subtitle.

[@chakramohora3698]

opportunity comes once in life but we too hesitate to accept that opportunity but we realize after goes it. so hold your opportunity tightly when it comes...

[@kristinabaker4433]

I want to go to there💖 🌌

[@rogerroger6049]

Yes I know there is an Emu up in the sky. There is probably an Appache helicopter if you look hard enough.

[@mtrlaux1029]

Thanks for this.

[@shoshannafachima1306]

Bravo bravo bravissimo

[@pohkeee]

Why do we curse the darkness? It exposes the truth of our place in the vast universe...true, a candle has it’s uses, but how often a multitude of them lit in fear drown out the stark beauty human of vulnerability...

[@mataafa1]

Hhmm don’t know because generally into the dark is the unknown but that’s the game as well? From darkness transmute to light order into chaos to restore to order ?

[@Astrostevo]

Excellent talk, great emu hunting details and noise imitation! Tragic to think that light pollution has robbed so many - one third of the world - of seeing our Milky Way and is getting worse. Its costing us the sky. :-(

[@isaacige]

Great!

[@Hamiora187]

As of 2016 the International Austronomical Union formed a group called the 'The Working Group of Naming Stars'... Their mission was to officially assign popular names to the hundreds of stars, 313 stars were given names although very few indigenous or non western names. 2017 'WGNS' decided to introduce indigenous names 86 new stars were approved and 4 stars were given Australian Aboriginal names. Three from the Wardaman People of NT known as Wurren found in Phoenicis constellation, Larrawag found in Scorpion and Ginan found in Southern Cross. Fourth star from the Boorong People, Northwest Victoria is Unurgunite found in Canis Major. Summer nights great views of Wurren and Unurgunite and winter nights Larawag and Ginan although all visable in both seasons but not in the sky long enough.

[@user-sz4ij5bf6m]

اول تعليق عربي ❤️ رمضان كريم وكل عام وانتم بخير

[@mudththirabdu9840]

ربنا يقدرنا علي الصيام والقيام

[@user-sz4ij5bf6m]

@@mudththirabdu9840 امين يارب العالمين

[@OISaviour]

They are always talking about three days of Darkness. I believe after the 3 days we'd probably all say, "Turn off those damn lights, we've got the stars." (Of course, we might be frozen by then.)

[@jfern6673]

Great talk.. Primitive at best.. Right time to look for Emu eggs? mmm

[@calvinmasters6159]

Where's the science? "...Wiradjuri heritage... learned about great celestial bodies... knowledge used to this day..." (6:35) Which bodies? What knowledge? Generalities and emotives, but no hard facts.

[@kmannyt1539]

Good lord she is amazing 👏

[@guidobravo6890]

Is it only me that find her really, really atractive?? She is gorgeous!

[@andrewg3856]

Yeah she fine af with that outfit on lol

[@mikakorhonen5715]

Not very handy kitchen hardware.

[@graciehart1001]

Fabulous 🫶🏼

[@Cici_Silo]

Thank you, Kirsten for sharing your passion. Every time I get to see the Milky Way (which isn't often), I thank Jesus for his creation! And also for the emu, which he also created! :-)

[@poppylar1834]

This is stuff you should have learned at primary school. We used to.

[@EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21]

Kirsten Banks, you are beautiful as the sky when you on that dress talking about the sky

[@Day_Chap]

That 65,000 year date gets used so often despite being dis proven again and again.

[@JimDodahday]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@JenniKellogsbrand]

What a beautiful spirit she has

[@theodorelowry9768]

Love it.

[@RushWije]

Very good speaking. I have one question. Actually, we are already in the Milky Way. So how do we see it like in that photo? It looks like it is the Andromeda Galaxy

[@jacksonrixx]

thanks

[@StOnKy69420]

excellant

[@Noah-pf3yv]

9:19 among us imposter vote him out!!!!!

[@4GH440]

Lets also remember that even greater early astronomers existed, The Mayan, The Aztecs, the Egyptians and also lets throw in the great star navigators which included the Polynesians, the Hawaiians and how could we not forget the Vikings. I am a massive fan of our universe with exciting new discoveries almost every day thanks to the James Webb Telescope. If you really want to see the stars with no light pollution, go to sea and just marvel at the night sky.

[@rodneyjohnson4794]

tears.

[@natemclennan717]

hi

[@williamliamsmith4923]

Because of precession phenomenon it may not to possible that emu constellation was always high in the sky when emus were hatching eggs. So this is unlikely to be 65000 year old tradition. Perhaps a 1000 or 2000 year old. Aboriginal people must have used other reliable cues to go searching for eggs (like temperature, vegetation, length of day change) for 65000 years rather than emu constellation

[@ashercool2903]

I never knew that.

[@tarigHashim]

She lost me totaly .been to the midel almost . Nothing about the title

[@andreitamaldonado]

Light pollution is a real problem here 3 simple things you can do: 1. Use only warm white led and prefer yellow/red colored light from white/blue. 💡 2. Don't use lights brighter than needed.🔅🔆 3. Advocate and create awareness on your community.💫

[@williamparker2922]

Meanwhile in downtown Los Angeles... There are no visible stars... And the only eggs your going to go hunting for are pigeon eggs.

[@Rien--]

oii sure bruv. good stuff fam

[@raw238]

Verdict: look at night sky more and please visit Australia mate

[@Triple109]

We our first religion to born in this Earth?

[@01glenn0101]

um not too much aboriginal astronomy

[@tookyohead]

Hey God seen as how your 65,000yrs+ old and have been there across the continent of Aus every single time an Aboriginal is looking up at the sky. Seen as how you’ve been everywhere God? I just want to know where you come from and do you have any family? Thanks for answering my question the all knowing God.

[@JohnStopman]

6:29 she has elven ears :-D

[@raw238]

Ha yeah, must be a half half

[@hakoskosko2053]

What were those magical human beings with long ears in the Lord of the rings called again?

[@robertfonovic3551]

Aboriginal acheivements? invented the stick.

[@Lux-x4y]

Amazing a sustainable hunting tool....that's exactly what a superior culture does they preserve the environment for future generations. Unlike the Europeans and British who exploited the planet with theft and industrialisation... backyards culture but to be expected white people are the least evolved a genetic defect a primitive young violent culture barely out of caves. Unlike Aboriginals the oldest culture on earth

[@liberalguy513]

Is she wearing the drapes?

[@timothygalvin3021]

Spoke a lot, didn't say much.

[@Jeansieguy]

Well spotted

[@mudththirabdu9840]

ما فاهم حاجة لكن مسر أكمل

[@drmitchelltulau671]

‘Astronomy’ is a science. A story about an emu up there isn’t science.

[@Black___Book]

Is she going to speak about aboriginals? I am half way through and this is an autobiography and a complaint about light polution

[@andrewg3856]

That girl's outfit is on 1000! She lookin fine af I can't even lie lol

[@timothygalvin3021]

I think you might have missed the point of the video.