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'Genius existed on the prairies 5,000 years ago'[Canada]
The Canadian Press ^
| 31 Jan 2009
| Bob Weber
Posted on 02/03/2009 12:19:57 PM PST by BGHater
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An aerial view of a 5,000-year-old stone cairn and other structures in southern Alberta that a maverick Edmonton scientist believes are the central features of an ancient sun temple and calendar that accurately marks the solstices and the equinoxes.
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posted on
02/03/2009 12:19:57 PM PST
by
BGHater
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/03/2009 12:20:21 PM PST
by
BGHater
(Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
To: BGHater
See what was done before the couch potato!
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posted on
02/03/2009 12:24:41 PM PST
by
bgill
To: BGHater
Yeah,,,those indian genuises again. Sitting in the middle of a circle, but never invented the wheel.
Sitting in that circle,,, cant you hear the talk? “dude,,,theres got to be a better way to transport things than dragging it on 2 poles.”
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posted on
02/03/2009 12:25:05 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
To: BGHater
Seems I’ve seen that sort of configuration before... but where? Hmmmmm......
Dear, come take a look....
Oh yeah! Now I’ve got it.
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posted on
02/03/2009 12:25:53 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Congress declares a National Dividend in the amount of $9,000 per taxpayer instead of Porkulus.)
To: BGHater
Genius existed on the prairies 5,000 years ago, says FreemanYeh, but back then "genius" was a bow and arrow instead of a hand thrown, or stabbing, spear.
Did mankind know about seasons, phases of the moon, etc?
Sure they did, it was all around them. They marked the spring summer, fall, and winter equinoxes. It is pretty much a given that when the sun stops drifting in one direction and starts going in reverse that someone is going to notice.
Eventually someone will make the discovery that so many days after one of these events the plants start budding and growing, or so many days after another of these events it gets colder.
That's not genius, that's attention to detail.
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02/03/2009 12:27:19 PM PST
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: BGHater
stones marking the time, particularly the time for planting are apparently very common. No genius, just someone who figured out that it would be easier to find out beforehand when the next planting season begun.
To: BGHater; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; Squawk 8888; ...
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posted on
02/03/2009 12:32:12 PM PST
by
fanfan
To: BGHater
I thought Dr. Gordon Freeman was an astrophysicist... HL Rules!
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posted on
02/03/2009 12:34:38 PM PST
by
Camel Joe
("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"- The Pigs)
To: DesertRhino
They never used the wheel for transport -- yet, the ancient Mayans had wheeled toys (the one on the right, below).
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
I guarantee that most people don't realize that the most successful ship design of all time came 1000 years before the Europeans came close and it still exists in widespread use today.
Most people will say it's junk and I'll have to agree.
Genius is subjective.
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02/03/2009 1:04:26 PM PST
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cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: Just another Joe
That's not genius, that's attention to detail. Mostly genius is good pattern detection.
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02/03/2009 1:04:28 PM PST
by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: Camel Joe
Got crowbar?
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02/03/2009 1:06:54 PM PST
by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: cripplecreek
It’s a beautiful ship & one like it might have carried the technology for wheeled toys from the orient to the “New World”.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
The History Channel ran a show about chinese shipbuilding technology of the past. They understood how to make large (300 foot) oceangoing vessels that were strong enough to take the stresses of open ocean waves. They simply built double hulls and filled them with a form of concrete to stiffen them.
It’s easy for us to say someone else was stupid for not coming up with something we’ve lived our entire lives with (like wheels) But if we had never encountered that technology we might be a thousand years away from it now.
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02/03/2009 1:16:54 PM PST
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cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
ROFLMAO... the answer was all around them. guess thats how it is when youre a genius.
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02/03/2009 1:18:14 PM PST
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DesertRhino
(Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
To: BGHater
Man’s been smart since God made him.
Ok well lately we’ve gone ‘round the bend and elected Obama.
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02/03/2009 1:19:48 PM PST
by
festus
(Politics makes for strange bedfellows)
To: BGHater
I hate to say it, but I am not overly impressed.
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posted on
02/03/2009 1:30:36 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
To: cripplecreek
I'm lookin' at your junk.
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posted on
02/03/2009 1:38:07 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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