The Aboriginal people of Australia have lived continuously for well over 40,000 years on the Australian continent and their descendents still enjoy the wonderful spectacle of the Milky Way Galaxy which passes directly over-head. In that long period of time they built an astronomical knowledge system that they were able to absorb into their social, cultural and religious life. The system they constructed is different from that of modern day physicists and astronomers. It is not based on the hypothetico-deductive system that modern day physicists and astronomers use and validate by observation and experiment. It's a knowledge system based on other knowledge traditions - traditions that do not require or are not amenable to falsification of its tenets because it is socio-cultural astronomy.
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