Oh please George, you didn’t even ask basic questions like “where is your research, can we see it?”. You didn't express one iota of incredulity on healthy skepticism. When I was reading it I spotted several questionable statements and leaps of faith.

We celibate mediocrity enough as it is.

No pseudoscience and pseudoarchaelogy deserve nothing but contempt.

Your “having curiosity” does not justify repeating bad information because you wish it were true.

Uh, calling him a young kid is entirely accurate. He’s 15 years old. That’s not discriminatory or marginalizing.

It’s pseudo-science and the only reason it was covered at all was because he was kid. The experts are pointing out that they aren’t idiots that never thought to connect Mayan cities up with the stars. Most of the criticism is directed at the media, who is largely scientifically ignorant, and ran with something that…

Because this isn’t how science works. While it’s great the kid is interested and tried to do some work, this ISN’T doing science and shouldn’t be presented as such. You can’t just come up with an idea and limited evidence, declare a press conference and present it all as science. It isn’t. This kid’s work was never…

That’s a great example, because it’s also one that requires basic observations with the human eye and not sophisticated technology. /s

“The finding of an actual lost city that proves his hypothesis only makes it that much more impressive” They haven’t found the city yet. Ground expedition is necessary to confirm.

You can lay a star chart (or any array of 2000 randomly arranged dots) on a map and find corresponding sites under some of the dots. You will also find places with nothing under some of the dots - so just look for dots that correspond with any of the millions of structures built in history.

discovering that the Mayans linked the location of their cities to constellations is brilliant. And, no one ever thought of that before.

Turns out it’s not that far, there’s houses only 10 miles away.

I am having the same issue. The student has tons of information but nothing seems to be published or at least searchable past a press release.

The only really remote part of the Yucatan is in the far south. That area is already HEAVILY surveyed, and the image on this satellite data is awfully clear.

I’m not saying it’s impossible that some grad student or Maya researcher hasn’t found it before, but I’d call it really unlikely. Like, really, REALLY unlikely.

Not…

I can’t seem to find a spot in Belize that would be any more remote than some ranches in Texas. I fail to see the issue with access.