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Re:When did the First Peoples arrive in America? by moloch-hai on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:41PM (#34201921)
Anyway people transcribing what they wrote thought that. A very great deal of such Chinese history was sketchily paraphrased when copying to newer media.

And it tells us nothing of what people on other continents thought. The null hypothesis would be that it varied.

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Re:When did the First Peoples arrive in America? by thaumasiotes on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:18AM (#34204907)
The null hypothesis for a celestial phenomenon like this is that it was viewed as an omen. But since it is not obviously good or bad and isn't responsive to anything on Earth, you'd expect it to be viewed as support for whatever anyone already believed. Omens that appear during unpopular reigns are bad omens. Omens that appear during popular reigns are good omens.
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