Part of the problem of looking for archaeological evidence from 10,000+ years ago is that a lot of it is buried under seas and oceans because of the rise in sea level.
I don't want to go full Graham Hancock or armchair archeologist with things, or be insensitive, but think how little remains from 500 years ago, in a place like what's now Virginia
And lots of cultures or civilizations definitely destroyed evidence of their predecessors
Pre Columbus Americas were super advanced and there isn't much evidence left, really, and the asshole European invaders only started destroying that 500 years ago
So, it makes me wonder what sorts of things are waiting to be discovered
Part of the problem of looking for archaeological evidence from 10,000+ years ago is that a lot of it is buried under seas and oceans because of the rise in sea level.
A lot of it has to do with stone carving not being the norm for a long time. Wood doesn't last very long, so much of the wooden artifacts are lost. Caves are great because they can hold evidence of fires and human habitation.
Though, I really wonder what they might find at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
Part of the problem of looking for archaeological evidence from 10,000+ years ago is that a lot of it is buried under seas and oceans because of the rise in sea level.
A lot of it has to do with stone carving not being the norm for a long time. Wood doesn't last very long, so much of the wooden artifacts are lost. Caves are great because they can hold evidence of fires and human habitation.
Though, I really wonder what they might find at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
Or the black sea
Also that's why I showed off the shigir idol it's wood and we don't know much of it as it has early writing we have no idea how to read
Hey, so speaking of archeology, from the other day, scientists have rediscovered settlements? Dwellings? Towns? They're not exactly sure yet, I guess, in the Amazon basin
I just watched "The Butterfly Effect". It was better than I expected! I wonder what sort of critical reception it got, I'll just have a look at the Wikip-
The "director's cut" alternative ending shows Evan turning on the home movies, only this time instead of watching a home movie at a neighborhood gathering, he's watching the video of his own birth. He travels back to when he is about to be born and commits suicide by strangling himself with his own umbilical cord. Therefore, he was never there to change the timeline in the first place and this explains why Evan's mother had two still-born children before him: since their father had the same gift which led him to be convicted as mentally unstable, the three killed themselves in the same way to avoid harming those around them.
I wonder if conservationists are going to try and wipe those little guys out. Can't think of how they'd manage it though, even on a place like Midway.
That is how a bunch of horror movies start. So, yes.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
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In 1989 Poul Anderson wrote a short text using only words of Germanic origin, to show what English might look like if it expressed new concepts using German-style compounds rather than borrowing from other languages. The piece described atomic theory, or “uncleftish beholding”:
The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mightly small; one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in ices when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike clefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.
The full text is here. Douglas Hofstadter called this style “Ander-Saxon."
... you know, I remember reading that story when I was ... maybe 11 or 12, something like that.
I had no fucking clue what he was doing, either because the edition I read didn't give context or I didn't pay attention. So it was mostly just utterly baffling, but I always did like the phrase "uncleftish beholding".
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this greatland, a new folkship, dreamt in freedom, and sworn to the forthput that all men are made evenworthy. Now we are betrothed in a great folk-war, testing whether that folkship, or any folkship so born and so sworn, can long withstand. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
In 1989 Poul Anderson wrote a short text using only words of Germanic origin, to show what English might look like if it expressed new concepts using German-style compounds rather than borrowing from other languages. The piece described atomic theory, or “uncleftish beholding”:
The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mightly small; one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in ices when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike clefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.
The full text is here. Douglas Hofstadter called this style “Ander-Saxon."
I'm confused why oxygen is "sourstuff" and unsure what "sunstuff" is (helium?)
I ate an engineer
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The rainbow connection was the color out of space all along
In 1989 Poul Anderson wrote a short text using only words of Germanic origin, to show what English might look like if it expressed new concepts using German-style compounds rather than borrowing from other languages. The piece described atomic theory, or “uncleftish beholding”:
The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mightly small; one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in ices when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike clefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.
The full text is here. Douglas Hofstadter called this style “Ander-Saxon."
I'm confused why oxygen is "sourstuff" and unsure what "sunstuff" is (helium?)
Sourstuff is like the German word for oxygen, Sauerstoff. Both from the Greek οξύς, sharp or sour. People used to think it was the basic (ha!) constituent of acids.
Ήλιος, Helios is Greek for sun, so you're right there.
it's from a year or so ago, but there's no way I could pass up this picture when it crossed my twitter.
"I did it, folks! I found the rainbow connection. But then the rainbow connection... found me.
And now I've found all of you."
Have you been half asleep?
Have you heard voices?
I hear them.
Calling my name.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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And lots of cultures or civilizations definitely destroyed evidence of their predecessors
Pre Columbus Americas were super advanced and there isn't much evidence left, really, and the asshole European invaders only started destroying that 500 years ago
So, it makes me wonder what sorts of things are waiting to be discovered
A lot of it has to do with stone carving not being the norm for a long time. Wood doesn't last very long, so much of the wooden artifacts are lost. Caves are great because they can hold evidence of fires and human habitation.
Though, I really wonder what they might find at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
Or the black sea
Also that's why I showed off the shigir idol it's wood and we don't know much of it as it has early writing we have no idea how to read
Life finds a way
Guardian article and I think an academic paper
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/27/lost-amazon-villages-uncovered-by-archaeologists
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03510-7
Fascinating stuff
Mouseferatu
And then when they’re done I’m sure they won’t kill the albatrossi
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Oh.
Oh okay then.
That is how a bunch of horror movies start. So, yes.
I had no fucking clue what he was doing, either because the edition I read didn't give context or I didn't pay attention. So it was mostly just utterly baffling, but I always did like the phrase "uncleftish beholding".
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this greatland, a new folkship, dreamt in freedom, and sworn to the forthput that all men are made evenworthy. Now we are betrothed in a great folk-war, testing whether that folkship, or any folkship so born and so sworn, can long withstand. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
is a thing I want to yell at random passersby.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
https://blog.csiro.au/the-nightmare-machine/
it's from a year or so ago, but there's no way I could pass up this picture when it crossed my twitter.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
"I did it, folks! I found the rainbow connection. But then the rainbow connection... found me.
And now I've found all of you."
I'm confused why oxygen is "sourstuff" and unsure what "sunstuff" is (helium?)
WoW
Dear Satan.....
Sourstuff is like the German word for oxygen, Sauerstoff. Both from the Greek οξύς, sharp or sour. People used to think it was the basic (ha!) constituent of acids.
Ήλιος, Helios is Greek for sun, so you're right there.
Have you been half asleep?
Have you heard voices?
I hear them.
Calling my name.
having to spend each day the colour of the grave
WoW
Dear Satan.....
An interesting one, so you can go ahead and change that to a C+ thanks Hobnail.