A dataset curated by humans, spanning over a thousand years, is awe inspiring on its own. The first person to record their observation must have had no idea what they started. Are there others like this?

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ljf 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you liked that you might find tbe lost of oldest companies interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

It was sad when I checked some time ago how many ancient Japanese companies have closed in tbe last 50 years.

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owlninja 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The times had a little story relevant to this recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blos...

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dylan604 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You mean like the Egyptians keeping records on the constellations?

	▲	morkalork 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes exactly. Like the Mayan observatory that could only have been built after tracking celestial events over many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Caracol,_Chichen_Itza

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carabiner an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Japan did the same with tsunami records.