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I am curious why this kind of speculation is taken seriously. I mean it's just a sketch on a stone without any further documentation. Could it not be that the
by foo101 9y ago
I am curious why this kind of speculation is taken seriously.
I mean it's just a sketch on a stone without any further documentation.
Could it not be that these were just two kids playing and drawing something random on a stone?
- perseusprime11 9y agoOccam Razor!
- majewsky 9y agoI would guess that when kids draw something, they would use an easier method than carving into a stone with tools, e.g. draw with their finger in the sand/dirt. All those easier methods of drawing that I could think of do not produce artifacts that survive for millenia.
- d0mine 9y agograffiti can survive for millennia http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%20pompeii.htm http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%2...
- katzgrau 9y agoHonestly, I thought the same. We're drawing some pretty far out assumptions about ancient celestial knowledge based on a drawing on a rock. I can't imagine that everything we find is going to have some deep or scientific meaning. My great great grandfather carved his new into a rock in northern NJ back in the 1800s and through all of the years and weather, it's still there, totally intact. True story.
- fragsworth 9y agoIf we find a close enough supernova that would have been daytime-visible and it lines up with about the time this stone drawing was made, we do have ourselves a very interesting coincidence, don't we?
- katzgrau 9y agoThat would certainly be the case, but it's probably one of the more far-fetched of many possible explanations. As another commenter wrote, a two-day hunt seems the more likely scenario
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoMaybe kids were drawing what they thought they saw...two suns.
- foo101 9y agoMaybe each of the two kids were drawing what they thought they saw...the sun.
- fragsworth 9y agoIt's not "just a sketch on a stone" - I think you didn't read the whole theory? 1. They found a specific nebula in the position of the stars depicted by the constellations on the stone. 2. The supernova that created the nebula would have been daytime-visible (and brighter than the moon at night). 3. The time that the supernova happened lines up with about the time that the stone etching was been made.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoRe: #1 the constellations of Orion and Taurus are relatively modern - 6000 years ago they would have had some other name.