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To: bkopto

Well I'll just be darned. Look at that! Thanks for posting!

Somebody posted that if they had been buried up to their lips, nobody would have bothered to see if that was all there was to them. LOL

3 posted on 05/14/2012 12:37:10 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: patriot08; All

I have heard that the island’s inhabitants declined to extinction because the ocean currents isolated them and the island became depleted of food sources. It occurred to me that the towering monoliths were a practical way of signaling from a greater distance the islands presence to wayfarers. At some point, there was no one who would make the journey successfully. The statues would, over time, be ‘buried’ more deeply in sedimentary deposits, exposing only the uppermost part.


9 posted on 05/14/2012 1:12:55 AM PDT by Havisham
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To: patriot08

Right, but maybe there were restrictions on who could research and if they could or could not disturb the site.


31 posted on 05/14/2012 4:38:10 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping!


34 posted on 05/14/2012 4:53:39 AM PDT by NYer (Open to scriptural suggestions.)
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To: patriot08

"Hey! Someone shut the door!! I'm not finished yet!!!" Can't a giant stone guy get a little privacy!


42 posted on 05/14/2012 6:19:51 AM PDT by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There they are next to the potatoes!)
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To: patriot08

Infinity tramp stamp and all!


48 posted on 05/14/2012 6:47:45 AM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: patriot08

“What’s in the road a head?”


57 posted on 05/14/2012 10:08:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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