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[Guest_Myran_*]

Sometimes I wonder if certain people really got the qualifications for their job, this is one such.
Mr John Barentine who works at the Apache Point Observatory have come up with a theory that a native american petroglyph depicts the supernova of the year 1006, yes 1000 years ago.
One of the reasons he think this is a depiction of a supernova is that it got something that looks like a star, well native american often used that shape.
What worries me is that Mr Barentine think that the image of a scorpion in the pertroglyph are some kind of proof.
The supernova appeared in the constellation Lupus (the wolf) which are located quite near Scorpius (The scorpion) but.....
The constellation we see are derived from cultures in the eastern Mediterranean (while the star names we use often are arabic). But the native americans are rather unlikely to see the same constellations as those from the old world. In short a small fact that make the theory derail completely.

More here

[ljk4-1]

I once speculated on the net that the Great Flood mentioned in Sumerian
mythology and the Bible came from recalling when the Atlantic Ocean got
past the point where Spain and Africa now are and flooded the Mediterranean.

To anyone living at that time, no doubt it would seem like the world was
coming to an end.

The idea was dismissed, etc., etc., then what do I see 15 years later,
a couple of scientists saying essentially the same thing I did.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_noah.htm

No, I don't think they stole the idea, but it was "amusing" to have my
idea put down, only to see it picked up by two real scientists years later.