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Aboriginal Folklore Leads To Meteorite Crater
An anonymous reader writes "An Australian Aboriginal dreaming story has helped experts uncover a meteorite impact crater in the outback of the Northern Territory. From the article: 'One story, from the folklore of the Arrernte people, is about a star falling to Earth at a site called Puka. This led to a search on Google Maps of Palm Valley, about 130 km southwest of Alice Springs. Here Hamacher discovered what looked like a crater, which he confirmed with surveys in the field in September 2009.'"
And what useful information is there? The location of bongo-bongo bushes, and the best way to bash in a frobbler bird's head with a rock?
Look, get it into your head: like all Noble Savages, the abbos were a useless backwards culture that was incapable of changing their environment to give themselves and their children a better quality of life.
Barely scraping by on subsistence gathering is not a lifestyle worthy of respect, and sitting under a tree making up stories to explain away things that you don't understand is a poor substitute for investing your time in actually investigating them, and in developing irrigation and health care.
Please put aside the White Guilt and accept that abbo culture was pathetic and contemptible, and abbo life (before Welfare) was short, hard and unpleasant. They've got it far better now than they've ever had it in the mythical non-existent "Dreamtime".
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.