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1 posted on 06/10/2008 8:30:01 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 06/10/2008 8:30:30 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Intelligent Design.

But through an iterative process.

3 posted on 06/10/2008 8:32:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest

Really??? I was sure the first one they ever made was perfect.

4 posted on 06/10/2008 8:33:13 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (Simple-minded conservative...)
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I believe this may interest you...


5 posted on 06/10/2008 8:33:16 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: blam

No kidding? I figured that it just came together perfectly right from the start.


6 posted on 06/10/2008 8:33:43 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: blam

evolution is everywhere


7 posted on 06/10/2008 8:35:49 PM PDT by Soliton
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Well, heck yeah, look at all the new variables introduced: shaft construction type and materials, broadhead size and type, fletchings, bow construction, string selection.

You take it for granted that you can order up some aluminum Easton shafts personalized in length for your personal draw, and Muzzie broadheads for your PSE bow.


8 posted on 06/10/2008 8:37:22 PM PDT by Sax
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I shall file this under “No $***, Sherlock.”


9 posted on 06/10/2008 8:40:47 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: blam

This sounds to me like someone just stating the obvious.


11 posted on 06/10/2008 8:41:53 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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Amazing.Trial and error. What a novel concept. Never heard of it before.

The first bow must have been square, with the arrow having a point on both ends.


14 posted on 06/10/2008 8:49:58 PM PDT by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: blam

Ugh! Bow suck!


15 posted on 06/10/2008 8:52:55 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: CrappieLuck

You’ll like this one.


17 posted on 06/10/2008 9:15:34 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: blam

The interesting part is that they didn’t have bows and arrows until 500 AD. That’s a little hard to believe.


18 posted on 06/10/2008 9:15:45 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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Gee ya think early man used empirical methods?


20 posted on 06/10/2008 9:21:02 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Of course, the ultimate development of the arrow was the "everful quiver". Invented by the elves of Middle-earth, you could fire dozens of them for hours and never run out of arrows.

21 posted on 06/10/2008 9:22:32 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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You must know what a recursive bow is .... Those who invented it are in a new movie “Mongol” Hope it gets yr way

Movie is about Genghis Khan


28 posted on 06/10/2008 9:33:48 PM PDT by dennisw (We have an idiocracy not a democracy)
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Interesting enough, but you mean some people actually think humans invented a perfect arrowhead all at once, without having to experiment with the design? Do we really need a scientific study to tell us this stuff?


29 posted on 06/10/2008 9:35:24 PM PDT by Williams
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I’ll venture that the atlatl preceded the bow http://www.atlatl.com/


32 posted on 06/10/2008 9:37:01 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest

Wow! And here I was, just believing that this was how it had worked since every other technology in humanity's repertoire worked this way...

38 posted on 06/10/2008 9:58:21 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest


39 posted on 06/10/2008 9:59:19 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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