Posted on 12/09/2011 6:40:10 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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The funny thing is: the beds were still cleaner than many of those used in Zuccotti Park.
Now, you can buy a mattress for $1000. 900 thread sheets for $100....and we still have bedbugs!!
Camping was always fun...Got better when we had sleeping bags. Got even better when we could rent a camp.
Now, only a $500 a day room will do.
(Only kidding...$20 a day...but bring your own mattress and bug killer...
I suspect ‘bedding’ is just about as old as man. It doesn’t take alot of enlightenment to figure out what is soft to sleep on.
Reminds me of the final episode of the latest Battlestar Galactica where they settle upon Africa. A long long time ago.
And another thing....We kept leaves in the bathroom at our fishing camp...in case you forgot to “bring your own roll”.
That bathroom was an outhouse.
I question whether or not the discovery of these artifacts represents the first or earliest anything. For years we’ve been told that the African finds prove that evolution took place in Africa. I don’t think we’ve proven the theory of evolution or that human beginnings were in Africa.
On the contrary, perhaps we’re findings artifacts in Africa because Africa was the location of the most recent development, not the oldest, thus, more likely to be preserved.
We have accepted African Eve and the subsequent finds with few questions; that might be a mistake. And, while you’re wondering about those artifacts, wonder why the same family of archeologists makes so many earth-shaking discoveries in that region.
It’s time for for honest skepticism.
He**, Chimps make beds in trees by bending the branches down to form a pallet, why wouldn't humans figure out how to make a sleeping mat?
I know that I, for one, am about sick and tired of hear all of these dates as being concrete dates....77,000 years ago....B.S.
Oh the Humanity, even the ancient ones were foreclosed form their homes!/s
Less widely reported was the sign found next to it that said “Helen Thomas Slept Here’.
The full scientific report approximates the date to 77,000 BCE and explains the dating methodology used.
Ahh...ok....like C-14 dating....oh, wait, that really doesn’t work well for plant life and is really not very accurate after a few thousand years though, right? (I could be wrong on that....that “technique” may have been proven to 100% correct in all testings...I haven’t looked into it in a while.)
I could be wrong though. I’m not one of those smart people who has spent my life in the educational system being shown how to think “correctly.”
C-14 dating works for everything “once living” (including plants),
but you’re right about the limitations. It’s only good to about 10,000 years at most.
Of course, there’s still the problem of assumptions like the amount of C14 in the atmosphere at the time it was alive, among others.
Exactly...which is why I go back to my original posting about their assumption on how old the bedding was. I get so tired of the scientific and educated community preaching their word as being the gospel on how old the World is and sure hate my children having to be faced with the confusion. Until they can say with 100% certaintity that their dates are correct, I call B.S. on anything over about 10k years old. :)
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