Dreamtime meteor story crater found with Google Earth

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Did you see this interesting news?
Apparently Aboriginals who told the Dreamtime stories knew a lot about astronomy and the origin of the craters in the Australian landscape, although many meteor craters are millions of years old so they couldn't have seen it happening.

See:
news.com.au - Google Earth confirms Dreamtime meteor legend

Although I'm not aboriginal, I had aboriginal neighbours growing up so we were always around this strong indigenous cultural influence. The dreaming stories are Australia's ancient epic. They were/are the telling of how things were, are and should be, how the rivers flooded, how the mountains rose and how the desert dried. I still remember how to find my home by following the snake tail mountains to where the severed head rests.

I know about the Dreamtime stories. It's interesting.
I read a few books about Australia and the Aboriginals.
When I was 16 I was thinking of travelling to Australia.

Ancient human neural network. Sturdy infrastructure but there's signal loss on most things aside main events.

I suspect someone recognised the crater as not fitting in with the surrounding landscape and decided it must have been made by something falling there, rather than directly witnessing anything exciting.

Er, I mean, I suspect that's where the myth came from in the first place. Obviously the people who just visited to check did exactly that, just they were being more careful about it.