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Old 01-26-2020, 03:32 PM   #40
johndallman
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Default Re: Scientific Specializations for Exploring Unknown Island

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
Which is more of an advantage, the young eyes of a recent PhD graduate or thirty years of experience in the field?
Neither is as important as the interest in the history of positional astronomy, which is what you need to get someone who can make the measurements without having to learn how first.
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Not unless he'd employed a positional astronomer to assist in scientific research on the validity or lack thereof of astrology, which I suppose might be possible.
Possible, but almost any astronomer knows enough positional astronomy for that.
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