65,000 yrs - the great history of Australian Aboriginal Astronomy | Kirsten Banks | TEDxYouth@Sydney
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Emus can’t fly, but there’s an Emu in the sky. People have been looking up to the stars for a long time, but for how long? Explore a different perspective of the night sky and learn about the great history of Australian Aboriginal Astronomy. Kirsten Banks is a proud Wiradjuri Woman and Astrophysicist with an undeniable passion for space and astronomy.
From a young age, Kirsten has always been fascinated by the sky. She first had a love for meteorology in Primary School, but then graduated from the clouds to the stars in mid-High School. Kirsten loves to communicate science and has done so on many platforms including writing for The Guardian Australia, speaking across Australia and Europe on numerous radio shows and has been a panellist on ABC TVs The Drum.
She is also a regular tour guide at Sydney Observatory. After graduating from an undergraduate degree in Physics in 2018, Kirsten strives towards commencing a PhD in the years to come. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
That was beautiful. Her passion for astronomy radiated from her with the brightness of the stars.
Hello thank you so much for your Ted Talks episode.
You are a natural storyteller and I enjoyed very much your presentation as well as the content.
I’ve enjoyed archeology, astronomy, geology, and natural sciences my whole life (60+ now)
It is very refreshing to hear you as a young person expressing your wonder & joy with their natural world. Culture does play a big part in seeing the world around us and it was very nice to see it in your eyes, expressions and great voice.
Regards...
I live in hurricane alley and when they hit and knock out power for weeks, the sky is amazing and demands your attention.
Actually, as Australians your so lucky! I am German and when I saw the “sky” for the first time was here in Australia. It’s impossible in crowded Europe to see something like this. So take this opportunity Australians. It’s a blessing.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
As a young Dunghatti Australian I find it hard to find much of my cultural history.
Finding out we have such a rich connection with the stars has has really inspired me.
I've heard there is A LOT that wasn't lost it just isn't taught to everyone anymore, you have to be inducted and whatnot
This is brillant. We have to remember this knowledge.
This young lady is the first person I have ever heard speak of being enraptured by the night sky in a manner that matches my experience in New Zealand six years ago. Growing up in Northern Europe and in Canada, my familiar starscapes rarely struck me as particularly beautiful. Then I travelled to New Zealand, living out a dream I had held onto for a decade or more. One night, standing on my cousin's back patio in Wellington, I looked up at the night sky. Despite the city lights, I saw above me a sky speckled with glittering jewels that were totally unfamiliar to me. I was awe-struck by their beauty. I mean seriously overwhelmed! Knowing I was looking at the same stars that my gggGrandparents and their children lived their lives under after immigrating to New Zealand in 1864. My ggGrandfather was the only one of their children to remain in Ireland. I fell deeply in love with New Zealand in all her glory - the geography, the flora and fauna, the cuisine, the people - I couldn't get enough of any of it. But the stars! Oh, the stars! I only wish I had taken the time to appreciate the night sky when I visited Australia in 2005. I admit I am blessed to live in a country where on rare occasions we can see the Aurora Borealis when it rarely dips into the southern skies. But nothing is as enchanting as the cosmos as witnessed in Australasia. My life could end with my last sight being the night sky as I knew it in 2015, and I would leave this world with a massive smile on my face!
i hope we could also have a young and genius filipino like her in the philippines , she's an inspiration 🌈
That was the most poetic science talk I’ve ever seen and heard. Beautiful.
For a community that struggles to convey their message and research, in especially layman's terms, she is a blessing to the science community! Honestly, just wrote a novel here :D
@@tommie3700 Kirsten's passion really shines through here, doesn't it? Her TikTok and Twitter are goldmines for people wanting to follow her journey of discovery and sharing.
We are the most important people for our parents compare then whole world🌍
Big Thumbs for all parents how always support their children's in every single steps of life 😊👍
Saloni Uppal
Dear saloni,
I would like to pay your attention for your Written English.
we are the most important people.... ✔
while your sentence is wrong because you use we & are .
THANKS A MILLION DEAR FOR IMPROVE MY MISTAKE 😊
Great talk, TEDx and so true. Nothing like the beautiful night sky, with a full moon, the stars & constellations. There is truly magic up there.
her brother is my science teacher
WOW!, Incredible!
Very very good Kirsten. Love the sounds of Aboriginal instruments. So Earthy; so Deep; So Cymatic!
She has the skill for attracting audiences for her speech. Addictive
*We live among the stars*
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So on top of the thousands of emus the Australians lost a war to, there was also a great celestial emu. Beautiful
This is stuff you should have learned at primary school. We used to.
This is brilliant. Aboriginal people are still here and their knowledge is still relevant. There is no other culture on the planet that can lay claim to 65,000 years of heritage.
Yep they've had the sky all figured out...spent so much time on it that they didn't get around to figuring out the wheel.
@@rogerroger6049 Or writing skills. The so called 65,000 years history is to promote sales of their art and boomerangs. Yes, the highest achievement in their 65,000 history is a boomerang.
@@jozeflagocki8790 that's funny they created a barbecue thousdands of years ago not to mention they had extensive knowledge of land, sea, plants,animals and the stars oh and did I forget to mention your beloved Sir Donald Bradman was bowled out for a duck by who......an Aboriginal 😂🤣facts m8 or should I say 2 deadly🤙
When I see my Wemba Wemba friend again, I am going to show her this video, she too will be in tears watching the night sky.
Great speech thank you you're far more generous to Western science than I am and I hope that generosity gives it some understanding of the deeper meaning Beyond surface knowledge
Her passion is amazing, we need to see more of these younger role models
Wonderful !! We need this understanding
thanks
im a Pacific islander frm the Micronesian region & we've been traveling the vast Pacific ocean around us using the stars & the wind only without using a compas. during the day we use the position of the sun, sea birds, sea currents, reefs & floating objects out at sea.
Navagator...
Beautiful mate
Ronald Starkey sadly i did not get any of those arts. but atleast some of us still do.
@@faanengaaw7357 my ancestors used the stars the sun complex mathematical charts and sea currents to navigate around the whole world.....European
Warwick Lewis europeans started after we pacific islanders settled all the Pacific islands.
Btw we did not have any charts. Everything was in our heads.
My favorite person my dad told me about this very subject and thank you 🙏 so much for this Ted talk important impressive information let’s kill light pollution
An awesome and inspiring talk that would bring home the wonders of the night sky that most people don't take time to appreciate to the most weary human. And as a writer I love the delicious turns of phrase like "dazzling carpet of stars", "sparkling stars and glittering galaxies" (as a science fiction writer I may steal that one) "eternal dance choreographed by gravity"... Thanks for letting You Tube post this. I'll be sharing.
"Dazzling carpet of stars" is not hers
came from Tiktok. great job!
She is incredible and lecture 👍👍
Here from the Skyentists. Congrats!
Oh what a great speech keep up the great talk 👣🌌 I’m currently in Winton Queensland and the Milky Way and the sky is just spectacular! We just downloaded Star walk App and it’s amazing 🔮
If we go with the 65,000 timeframe one should beat in mind that that is about the time frame where the megafauna of Australia were obliterated after having survived many various climate catastrophes prior.
I suspect they made good hunting for a little while and then the best hunting became emus and kangaroos both of which have a high breeding rate to recover from hunting pressure. And in some areas the landscape was changed drastically by the introduction of fire based hunting technology.
That’s nice video
This that I was waiting for
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Watching from Nepal💚❤💙💗
I'm so glad that you are from Nepal, who followed this kind of speech on yoitube...
Much love from Central Indiana USA 💕👍
I am a simple Nepali. I see Nepal I hit like.
I crave to see the stars ✨. I’ve lived in the suburbs my entire life
I watched that Hubble doc so awesome and amazing
You are ADORABLE, Kristen! THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge and experiences.
VERY relevant and thought provoking! 🙏 ✨💚✨
What a beautiful spirit she has
opportunity comes once in life but we too hesitate to accept that opportunity but we realize after goes it. so hold your opportunity tightly when it comes...
Namaste 🙏🏽🌈
Good job!! I loved your speech!
Thanks for this.
Thank you, Kirsten for sharing your passion. Every time I get to see the Milky Way (which isn't often), I thank Jesus for his creation! And also for the emu, which he also created! :-)
Kirsten Banks, you are beautiful as the sky when you on that dress talking about the sky
Fabulous 🫶🏼
Very cool!! Light pollution is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed!
As of 2016 the International Austronomical Union formed a group called the 'The Working Group of Naming Stars'... Their mission was to officially assign popular names to the hundreds of stars, 313 stars were given names although very few indigenous or non western names. 2017 'WGNS' decided to introduce indigenous names 86 new stars were approved and 4 stars were given Australian Aboriginal names. Three from the Wardaman People of NT known as Wurren found in Phoenicis constellation, Larrawag found in Scorpion and Ginan found in Southern Cross. Fourth star from the Boorong People, Northwest Victoria is Unurgunite found in Canis Major. Summer nights great views of Wurren and Unurgunite and winter nights Larawag and Ginan although all visable in both seasons but not in the sky long enough.
excellant
Because of precession phenomenon it may not to possible that emu constellation was always high in the sky when emus were hatching eggs. So this is unlikely to be 65000 year old tradition. Perhaps a 1000 or 2000 year old. Aboriginal people must have used other reliable cues to go searching for eggs (like temperature, vegetation, length of day change) for 65000 years rather than emu constellation
Awesome TED Talk on Astronomy!!! Crazy how this video was just posted when I was thinking about Astronomy!! From California also!
well done kirsten beautiful msg
El Link en español gracias
I know what you mean about amazing views out in the bush. It's amazing to see.
Love it.
Very good speaking. I have one question. Actually, we are already in the Milky Way. So how do we see it like in that photo? It looks like it is the Andromeda Galaxy
i have to watch this for a school task
What about our anicent civilization indus valley?
How does indigenous astronomy work with seasons misaligned now with 40'000 years ago and precession and the 26,000 year cycle?
Adaptation and an intimacy with our world. Read Dark Emu. Mainstream discount a lot of detail, but the state of mind they can not take.
Great talk.. Primitive at best.. Right time to look for Emu eggs? mmm
I never knew that.
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um not too much aboriginal astronomy
اول تعليق عربي ❤️
رمضان كريم وكل عام وانتم بخير
ربنا يقدرنا علي الصيام والقيام
@@mudththirabdu9840 امين يارب العالمين
I have to travel to the southern hemisphere to see the night sky one day. I just have to.
Why do we curse the darkness? It exposes the truth of our place in the vast universe...true, a candle has it’s uses, but how often a multitude of them lit in fear drown out the stark beauty human of vulnerability...
Hhmm don’t know because generally into the dark is the unknown but that’s the game as well? From darkness transmute to light order into chaos to restore to order ?
I want to go to there💖 🌌
omg WHERE DID YOU GET THAT JUMPSUIT?! yaaas
Yes I know there is an Emu up in the sky. There is probably an Appache helicopter if you look hard enough.
Great!
Excellent talk, great emu hunting details and noise imitation! Tragic to think that light pollution has robbed so many - one third of the world - of seeing our Milky Way and is getting worse. Its costing us the sky. :-(
Bravo bravo bravissimo
Yes, electrical lighting has made viewing the night sky more difficult, yet one can always drive into the desert, or into the mountains, and see the night sky in its magnificence.
Let's celebrate the amazing accomplishments of modern Western civilization, and not unrealistically elevate stone age cultures.
I live in a swamp. Expeditions to mountains or deserts are difficult... but we could have a darker sky to inspire us.
10:18 "...we're losing this knowledge, because we're losing the darkness..." in the sky AND in Australia's population!
Yeah your all white now!
Great Talk. Astronomy and Astrology are the mothers of science.
I think she was talking about mythology not astrology.
We want to subtitle.
That 65,000 year date gets used so often despite being dis proven again and again.
9:19 among us imposter vote him out!!!!!
She lost me totaly .been to the midel almost . Nothing about the title
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Where's the science?
"...Wiradjuri heritage... learned about great celestial bodies... knowledge used to this day..." (6:35) Which bodies? What knowledge?
Generalities and emotives, but no hard facts.
Light pollution is a real problem here 3 simple things you can do:
1. Use only warm white led and prefer yellow/red colored light from white/blue. 💡
2. Don't use lights brighter than needed.🔅🔆
3. Advocate and create awareness on your community.💫
They are always talking about three days of Darkness. I believe after the 3 days we'd probably all say, "Turn off those damn lights, we've got the stars." (Of course, we might be frozen by then.)
hi
Is it only me that find her really, really atractive?? She is gorgeous!
Yeah she fine af with that outfit on lol
Not very handy kitchen hardware.
tears.
Spoke a lot, didn't say much.
Well spotted
Aboriginal acheivements? invented the stick.
Is she going to speak about aboriginals? I am half way through and this is an autobiography and a complaint about light polution
Meanwhile in downtown Los Angeles... There are no visible stars... And the only eggs your going to go hunting for are pigeon eggs.
Not a good video. I thought this video would discuss Aboriginal cosmology not talk about how she got into studying astronomy
Well, for starters, If you claim Aboriginal heritage, you into university on lower ATAR scores. You don't have to compete with other races. If you're Aboriginal, you get into jobs with lower /no qualifications without having to match the ability of other races. eg Woolworths/Westpac Indigenous Employment Schemes and when all else fails, Aboriginals have jobs created just for them eg Aboriginal Liaison Officers, Indigenous Rangers etc. It's great to be Aboriginal
@@ray6115 that is absolute Rubbish !
Good lord she is amazing 👏
Lets also remember that even greater early astronomers existed, The Mayan, The Aztecs, the Egyptians and also lets throw in the great star navigators which included the Polynesians, the Hawaiians and how could we not forget the Vikings. I am a massive fan of our universe with exciting new discoveries almost every day thanks to the James Webb Telescope. If you really want to see the stars with no light pollution, go to sea and just marvel at the night sky.
What were those magical human beings with long ears in the Lord of the rings called again?
Verdict: look at night sky more and please visit Australia mate
Lol r we all here from school
6:29 she has elven ears :-D
Ha yeah, must be a half half
We our first religion to born in this Earth?
oii sure bruv. good stuff fam
I am sure that Australopithecus had their great Australopithecus Astronomy. It's so disappointing this science with hundreds of thousands of years of history and development is lost forever. Otherwise we would have a great opportunity to incorporate their astronomical knowledge into the curriculum of our schools and universities.
I'm a Huge fan of this young First Nation woman .. thank you for sharing Kirsten cannot wait until you Dr Banks and have your own show on NITV
First Nations? She is hardly aboriginal
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