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Originally posted by stereologist
The idea of a galaxy was not known till the 1700s or later. Yet the claim is that these folks knew about the galactic center. Ridiculous.
It's rather unscientific of you to claim that you know for certain that they didn't know about galaxies when the matter of the fact is that there is no way for you to know.
I'll stand by my conviction, they probably projected into the real time zone and observed it themselves.
Fact is, people have been going out of their bodies since the dawn of time and there's countless research and documented cases of OOBE's and NDE's that prove this point..
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by TheLaughingGod
Another falsehood tossed in. There has not been countless research. There has been some research with nothing to show for it.
No, there's documented cases where people project and retrieve information they couldn't possibly be aware of, all under supervision, then there's the hundreds of NDE cases where people are privy to information they shouldn't be.
... I still think your endless debunking is ignoring a great deal of evidence.
Originally posted by stereologist
The first notion of the organization fo stars came in the 1700s well after the telescope was invented.
Where did you dig up that gem of utter bafoonery?
The 'first notion of the organization for stars', as you term it, is prehistoric. Astronomy, including the accurate charting and recording the movement of stars and planets and yes, the milkyway itself, goes a hell of alot further back than the 1700's.
Fascinating stuff, almost hate to see good threads like this resurface lately though, the company of late is decidedly less apt to discuss things intellectually, and this thread will suffer as a result. The article mentioned it was originally erected in Germany, wonder if the original location is still around or even known.
Originally posted by stereologist
Thanks for showing us that you have no idea what structure means. It happens.
According to the ancients the stars DO NOT MOVE. It wouldn't be until much later that the Aristotelean notion of an unchanging heavens would be challenged by the observation of nova.
The Milky Way was not seen as a galaxy or as a structure until the 1700s. It was seen as a part of the sky. That is all.
It takes a telescope to perform parallax measurements to determine distances to nearest stars. That reveals their position and later on the structure of the stars into galaxies.
Your utter lack of understanding the difference between seeing stars, thinking that the ancients knew stars moved relative to each other, thinking that the ancients knew of galaxies is as you put it "utter bafoonery."
Ah, more bafoonery.
Are you familiar with Hipparchus, the hindu figures of Brahma and Vishnu, Timocharis, Aristillus, Ptolemy, the Chaldeans, the Dendera Zodiac, the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, Bhaskara II, Munjala, Yu Xi, Copernicus, or Roamn Mithraism or Cautes and Cautopates? Just to name a few... Get Real.