Who Were The REAL Ancient Astronomers?

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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

[@robertcola2573]

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

[@ZeroOskul]

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

another amazing video. Thanks Paul.

[@Andy2e0ree]

Great show Paul very informative many thanks

[@cyrilio]

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.

[@robmecklenburg3790]

Very Enjoyable and informative. Thanks.

[@zimmy1958]

Great talk. Thanks.

[@lorenzo.bernacchioni]

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

[@justsharki]

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

[@0neIntangible]

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

[@CountryRam-jv5xr]

Best one ever

[@willinwoods]

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

[@steveco1800]

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 😊.

[@OMADRevolution]

No words

[@SofaKingShit]

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.

[@geordiedog1749]

Wow!

[@markusmencke8059]

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. 🙂

[@ZeroOskul]

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

[@hankyou]

Beautiful Paul! ;^)

[@suyashjha679]

"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]

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

[@arlenestanton9955]

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

[@kxqe]

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.

[@TeethToothman]

❤❤❤

[@mjproebstle]

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

[@robertvesetas8751]

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

[@Max_Flashheart]

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

[@kricketflyd111]

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

[@peterkallend5012]

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]

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

[@randymakin477]

I too am not impressed with said smart phone

[@truthmonger7]

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

[@drewstudlino5885]

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

[@raraujo4951]

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]

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