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Researchers Unearth 3-Million-Year-Old Tools
Discover Magazine (via MSN.com) ^ | 20 February 2023 | Joshua Rapp Learn

Posted on 02/20/2023 8:57:11 PM PST by zeestephen

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To: Az Joe

3 million years?! Using tools?!

Sure they had almost 4.5 billion years to learn how to make them


61 posted on 02/21/2023 5:27:40 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Fungi

Civilization has risen and fallen many times on this planet. We happen to be crashing back down right now.


62 posted on 02/21/2023 6:00:36 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Larry Lucido

New discoveries keep pushing back the date for the start of civilization.


63 posted on 02/21/2023 8:52:36 AM PST by chud
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To: Az Joe
"3 million years?! Using tools?!"
Crows use tools (maybe not flaked stone tools, but tools).
64 posted on 02/21/2023 9:35:38 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: chud
New discoveries keep pushing back the date for the start of civilization.

It all depends on how you define "civilization".

Civilization has the same root as city.

65 posted on 02/21/2023 10:23:47 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Hiddigeigei

Not sure of your comparison, but maybe.....


66 posted on 02/21/2023 12:43:34 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: TigersEye

They all went to Guam and it tipped over.


67 posted on 02/21/2023 3:34:47 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: zeestephen
Not exactly slowly.

That first spike in temperature, called the Bolling-Allerod, coincided with melt water pulse 1A which raised sea about 100 feet. Then the temps dropped back to glacial maximum levels followed by another tremendous rise in temps which coincided with melt water pulse 1B that raised sea levels another 45 ft. and by the time the Holocene had begun sea level had risen 400 ft.


68 posted on 02/21/2023 7:13:37 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: SteveH
well i have a bone or two to pick with this younger dryas guy then

A Dryas is a little bitty Arctic flower so if you find one you can certainly pick it. :)

69 posted on 02/21/2023 7:15:36 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: DannyTN

70 posted on 02/21/2023 7:18:44 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: ansel12

I tried the link you posted in #20. It doesn’t open for me because it’s a paysite. Useless.


71 posted on 02/21/2023 7:30:34 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: TigersEye

You get free articles and it works for me in incognito, and 3 different browsers.

If you have already used your free articles then you should block their cookie, or at least remove it occasionally.

Not useless at all.


72 posted on 02/21/2023 7:50:14 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

Thanks! I’ll see if I can find out how to block their cookie.


73 posted on 02/21/2023 7:59:04 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: TigersEye

Some sites actually block you but most sites that give some free articles can just have their cookie blocked so that you always start at article one.

If you use chrome then click on the lock, up by the web page address, click on cookies, and block and remove the site’s cookies.

Occasionally blocking the cookie is too much so you can block it, then click on “blocked cookies” and click on remove when leaving (or whatever the phrasing is).


74 posted on 02/21/2023 8:16:55 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

Thanks again. I use Firefox but it looks like it works the same. I thought my VPN was supposed to block cookies. Guess I’ll have to recheck the settings on that.


75 posted on 02/21/2023 8:21:52 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: TigersEye

It was a hassle for you tonight but the more you play with that then the more you can get past some site hassles.

Something else I do is use the Quick java Script switcher extension and click, and then unclick it, and that stops some sites from blocking your scrolling down and reading the article.

I don’t understand how it all works but playing with it all does open up sites for you.


76 posted on 02/21/2023 8:33:53 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

Well, you may have just unleashed a monster on paysite journalism sites. :)

I’ll try to get outside the box and work my system more than I’m used to doing.


77 posted on 02/21/2023 8:38:16 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Fungi
Hogwash. Prove it. It took three million years to get to six billion people? nonsense. Do the math.

There were a few cataclysms that happened in that time which practically wiped out people. But I don't think these were true humans. They were missing what we have today...God's revelation.

78 posted on 02/21/2023 8:41:08 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: TigersEye

Re: Not exactly slowly

I was referring to planetary average temperature.

Greenland is an outlier that has radical temperature changes based mostly on tropical and Arctic ocean currents.

Thank you for the excellent charts.

I have not seen them before.


79 posted on 02/21/2023 9:18:50 PM PST by zeestephen (43,000)
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To: zeestephen

The Greenland ice cores are a proxy for average temps of the Earth. If average temps in Greenland rise 18 C it’s pretty much a certainty they’ve risen quite a bit everywhere else though not necessarily the same amount.


80 posted on 02/21/2023 9:27:17 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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