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> The maths puts the last period of the Pleiades appearing as seven, at around 100,000 years ago.

So, I'm not entirely sure I follow you, but this is way way before any people were in Tasmania, or even any real evidenced occupation in the southern hemisphere outside Africa.

Are you suggesting the maths is suspect (?!), or that they should have included traditions that can't at all be verified?

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The article suggests that a 12 ky old oral tradition might be the oldest.

tombh’s comment is that there could be an oral tradition almost an order of magnitude older, or more. I think it’s relevant.

related, there's a North American legend about a giant whose nose was a long snake

> On the North American mainland, populations of mammoths and mastodons were still living as recently as 12,000 years ago; all were gone 1,000 or so years later.

The suggestion is the story is from a common ancestor when humans were still in Africa.

Could be the real life equivalent of a part of the plot of the Three-Body Problem (I've only seen the Tencent series). One of the mechanisms used in the exposition of this problem is a VR game within an planet with alien physics due to the orbital environment surrounding it, and the game's goal of understanding the physics and observed patterns. I think that's the best I can obfuscate it without fully spoiling the plot.

Oh they did adapt it to screens? How is it?

The show is centered around hard science so it can be a little difficult to follow for some, the series is around 30 episodes and it took a while to make some decent progress in the plot. I like it overall, but have a feeling that the Netflix version may not be able to match it, especially when trying to "westernize" it.

Oh there's a Netflix version coming out too? Splendid.

Not as good as the books, a bit too Chinese drama ish, but still very watchable

I don't think they're suggesting that this is specific to Tasmania.

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