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Chimps in Senegal found to fashion spears for hunting
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| 4/15/15
| Bob Yirka
Posted on 04/15/2015 10:59:08 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
It's good that so far the chimps are only using spears as tools to hunt a "large" animal, other than humans.
I don't want to see them starting to use spears to hunt humans too.
To: LibWhacker
Next they'll be driving Range Rovers and drinking Chablis.
To: linear
This discovery bothers me a lot. Everyone knows the usual progression in primitive weapons is rocks, or pieces of bone used as clubs, then comes the fashioning of clubs out of wood, then spears perhaps, followed by bows and arrows, etc.
But this ingenious species skipped over all that early stuff and went straight to handcrafted spears and is, therefore, an extremely, extremely dangerous incipient intelligence, far more intelligent than early man was, and we should nuke them RIGHT NOW before they discover nukes themselves and use them against us! ;-)
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04/15/2015 11:55:06 AM PDT
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LibWhacker
("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
To: LibWhacker
Obama and Kerry will let them have nukes...
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04/15/2015 12:01:53 PM PDT
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Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: LibWhacker
Evolutionary assumptions...
No way they become intelligent, they don’t have the vocal capacity for language.
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:05:02 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: LibWhacker
If they open a machine shop, somebody give me a call.
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04/15/2015 12:33:17 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: nickcarraway
Beat me to it. I was going to say “Let me know when they start using muzzle loaders’’. But what the heck.... yeah, whole new market potential.
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posted on
04/15/2015 4:59:01 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
To: MrB
Yes and as accurate as Chinese plastic can be. :)
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posted on
04/15/2015 7:23:06 PM PDT
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xp38
To: TheThirdRuffian; LibWhacker
Wait ‘til they start reloading.
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04/15/2015 8:38:40 PM PDT
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Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: xp38
Zero points of articulation!
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04/21/2015 7:17:57 PM PDT
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T-Bone Texan
(The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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