Indian Moon landing........

Originally posted by blueballs: ↑

I saw on the ABC great inventors that the aborigine actually had helicopters and planes...way more advanced than we give them credit for

The aboriginals at top of country supposedly have % od indian dna and many indian language similarities so its likely they may have been most recent arrivals

Perhaps most similar to Australian languages are the Dravidian languages of southern India. Tamil, for example, has five places of articulation in a single series of stops, paralleled by a series of nasals, and no fricatives (thus approaching the Australian proportion of sonorants to obstruents of 70% to 30%). Approaching the question from the opposite direction: according to the latest WHO data on the prevalence of chronic otitis media (Acuin 2004:14ff), Aboriginal Australians have the highest prevalence in the world – 10-54%, according to Coates & al (2002), up to 36% with perforations of the eardrum. They are followed – at some distance – by the Tamil of southern India (7.8%, down from previous estimates of 16-34%), … (from http://www.flinders.edu.au/speechpath/Manly final.pdf)
Then I started to look at other linking the tamil and the Aboriginal. And here I encountered a lot of material. I big proportio of this has to be discounted as it is typically in the vein of the Indian or Tamil suprematist. Quickly – that vein is one that claims that Tamil is the original language – and the class of languages called Dravidian ( an unfortunate appellation?) is huge and spread all over the world. Some claim the flaw in this na,ing has given rise to the feeling that Tamil ( as dravidian) is the original language. Still now we can start to read about DNA evidence. See this:
Dr Rao and his colleagues sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of 966 people from traditional tribes in India. They reported several of the Indian people studied had two regions of their mitochondrial DNA that were identical to those found in modern day Australian Aboriginal people. (http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/2011921/1/)

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There is a guy who used to live up at Sarina Point, an archaeologist, who once claimed to have found loads of artefacts around the country that suggested there were Phoenicians here temporarily long before we were, and they were conducting copper mining at a number of locations. I visited him back in 2000 out of curiosity and he showed me some of the artefacts, along with geological landmarks that seemed to offer plausibility to his theory, including an underwater ancient stone pier that seemed to be manmade.

Anyway, he also pointed to the difference in genetics and physical appearance of certain aboriginal nations, and theorized that some were descended of Indian slaves brought over on the Phoenician ships.

He also claimed that the government refused to engage with him on his research as they were too contentious from the perspective of white Australian history.

I've never really made my mind up on whether he was just a nutty eccentric with a vivid imagination or actually had stumbled on something extraordinary.