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Posted on 05/15/2012 7:13:08 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The missing ingredient was that it must have been space alien technology that helped the ancient people build these things.
I mean we all know how “stupid” the ancients were - they couldn’t have been smarter than we modern men - right?
The Egyptians were too stupid to build the pyramids - it had to be space aliens - right?
There are wooden clocks built in the colonial era of our own country that we can’t figure out how it was done - and, that was only 200 years ago.
We aren’t as smart as we think we are.
http://www.fotevikensmuseum.se/sewnboat/index.htm ~ right down to modern times the Sa’ami have had folks around who could build seaworthy sewn boats. There’s some evidence from remains found high in the mountains in Scandinavia that such boats have been built since people first arrived in the region ~ maybe 7500 to 9000 years ago!
Kon-Liki?
'So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.'
Throw in the fact that our fore-bearers sailed/navigated? to Crete 100k plus ya.
You can do things for a hobby. But, if you life is in on the line, ya learn quick.
God Bless the good Ol’days where “Women with money and a few without”............ could ask those 2 question.....with immunity
God Bless the good Ol’days where “Women with money and a few without”............ could ask those 2 question.....with immunity
Did they have screen doors way back when? They could have made a boat out of one.
Where's the picture of the Alien Hunter TV guy with the big hair?
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I watched a show on the Discovery Channel about a year and a half ago about Viking Long Boats. A group of modern day Vikings from Iceland belong to a club. They carry on the traditions of the Vikings of old by making long boats. A Viking crew of 14 to 16 men was said to be able to make a long boat using only axes and knives. It would typically take under 3 weeks and would use the wood of 4 large trees. The men of the club build a long boat complete with dragon’s head every summer; they use only axes and knives and it does take them less than 3 weeks.
Their long boats are then sold to fund the club, and many of them have been used in Hollywood films.
Amen.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't.
/johnny
Good thing you put the for after dinner. I was going to ask you how they tasted. (smirk)
Kon Tiki
LOL.....yep, hence my “Kon Liki” reference. :) Thought that had a better ring than “Kon Leaky” (too obvious, that one).
From a post in the comments section on the site:
Hmm, it makes me wonder if they could have left it in the water a bit so that the wood swells and seals the cracks, then try and refloat it. That is how barrels work, it wouldn't be unreasonable for a boat to use the same idea.
How do you know that they are Libs? Do you have some inside info on their voting preferences or are you just posting a stupid comment to make yourself feel good?
I imagine the Bronze Age builders had a few boats sink before they got it right.
This simply reinforces my long held total disdain for archeologists both physical and cultural. Generally most are delusional attention whores whose main talent is weaving the most elaborate tales from the skimpiest of evidence. And I have never, ever heard of a single instance when one of these parasites ever said the three magic words : "I was wrong."
Years ago, our most popular joke (among engineers of all disciplines) was how one of these educated imbeciles would find a single human foot bone and, from that, weave a book length pompous narrative of an entire society, what they ate for breakfast, what diseases (plural) they suffered from and a thousand details only a truly demented neurotic human being could invent. All with a straight face.
Or, as Mark Twain so classically summarized, "Such large returns in conjecture, from such small investment in fact."
I hope these delusional "scientists" at least learned a smidgen of humility.
“We aren’t as smart as we think we are.”
I’d say it a little differently...ancient people weren’t as dumb as we think they were.
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