This story of the Dogon people was recently brought to my attention. I found that Leonard Nimoy covered it in his 1970s "In Search of . . ." series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTH-OheNf9k I've already given some of my thoughts in the comments of the youtube(I'm oker59 on youtube).- Alright, I'll go ahead and repost my replies here on PR messageboard,Somebody pointed out the Dogon people/Sirius mystery to me . . . last night. I've been doing some checking up, and found that Leonard Nimoy did a "In Search of . . ." video on it(I grew up in the 1980s having seen some; my favorite was always the one about the city of Troy). Anyways, I replied the following to the person who left a hint about the dogon people/Sirius mystery,"Good morning IndyJane, I had to google that one; and, that was interesting. I found this, http://www.unmuseum.org/siriusb.htm . I'm surprised I haven't heard of this one through, say Arthur C. Clarke's "Mysterious Universe" series. Oh well . . .I'd have to read the various books to check facts, which I'm not wanting to do right now. Sirius is only eight light years out. Maybe in a hundred years or so, we'll get some spaceprobe out there to investigate the system. I could point out real quick, that a white dwarf is what's left of a planetary nebula; a smaller, not so violent supernova(which is why we're still here. If Sirius A had gone supernova just eight light years away, we wouldn't be here. Even though a planetary nebula is not so violent, it's energetic enough to destroy all planets in the system; especially, make them steril(spelling?).You could imagine all kinds of scenarios of Sirius E.T's that knew their star was ending its life, and were leaving to come say here(they must have known by then, there's a Planet Earth). But, why didn't they just colonize it and take over . . . with all their nanotechnologies, quantum computers, and probably technologies we haven't thought of yet? Why tell this obscure tribe and no-one else?(these things always occur in some obscure land that nobody knew about at the time; note, Bethleham didn't exist at the supposed life of Jesus Christ; in fact, the very birth-date of Jesus Christ isn't noted in the Gospels themselves). The more I think about this; the more hoaxy it sounds!"and,"Ope, I couldn't help looking up Sirius A's wiki, and found that Sirius B is the white dwarf, and Sirius A is a star with twice the mass of the Sun.First, Sirius is a double star system. This makes conditions for intelligent/technological species to ever develop there, doubly improbable. Then, Sirius A is a star with twice the Sun's mass. I suppose I'd have to reread Isaac Asimov's "Extraterrestrial Civilizations", but, to say the least, he shows the delicate balance of all the factors that makes life, much less technological civilization even possible here on Earth, and anything different brings down the possibility even further. So, in the Sirius system, we have three major problems for intelligent/technological life ever developing there."and,Of further note, the wiki gets the star systems age wrong. It says the Sirius binary system is 200 million years old; this is impossible. What it must have meant is Sirius B must have gone planetary nebula 200 million years ago.If the Sirius star system people knew Sirius B was going to go nova on them, and wanted to go somewhere else(say Sol/Earth system), why did they only give the Dogon people this knowledge just a few hundred years ago?
