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It Took Humans Many Chilly Millennia to Master Fire
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| March 14, 2011
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Posted on 03/14/2011 8:42:49 PM PDT by decimon
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posted on
03/14/2011 8:42:54 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/14/2011 8:43:37 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
“tools dating back more than 800,000 years ago”
Yep. They know because of the minerals they found it in.
And they date those minerals by the artifacts found in it...
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posted on
03/14/2011 8:47:44 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
To: decimon
We still haven’t mastered fire, that why we have fire departments.
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posted on
03/14/2011 8:55:15 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(it said the speeling was OK)
To: decimon
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:00:06 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: decimon
Early humans may have moved north into the chilly latitudes of Europe hundreds of thousands of years before mastering a crucial technology: Fire.Wait a minute... I thought Prometheus gave fire to man, against the wishes of the mighty Zeus.
To: decimon
Some still have not mastered it yet.
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:05:25 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: decimon; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:06:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:11:50 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: decimon
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:24:19 PM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
("Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Tax " ~ Gagdad Bob)
To: decimon
maybe it wasn’t as chilly as we thought? If people used the equivalent of 16-brick stoves which use very little fuel, would there be fire traces of their use?
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:24:24 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: SunkenCiv
I've always thought that women mastered fire.
Otherwise why would the men folk bring back the bacon?
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:38:20 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: blueplum
Actually, Sterno stoves were used. They were so valued, that they were passed down through the generations and is why we can not find any evidence of them in archeological digs.
http://www.sterno.com/retail/pages/stove.html
;^D
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:39:03 PM PDT
by
RebelTex
(Freedom!! It's not just another word.)
To: RebelTex
funny funny, but seriously, 16-brick stoves only take a few twigs to boil water and the heat is focused up not on the ground, leaving no scorched rocks
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:41:49 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: decimon
The researchers' conclusion is controversial, because others have put early humans' mastery of fire earlier in our history, as long ago as 2 million years It wouldn't be the only time the technology of fire was lost.
When the Brits showed up the native Tasmanians were ignorant of fire.
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:48:33 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 782 of our national holiday from reality. - tic. tic. tic. It's almost 3 AM)
To: blueplum
I want to know how to make 16 brick stoves. What are they?
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:51:56 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: little jeremiah
It is rocket science...
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posted on
03/14/2011 9:54:51 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 782 of our national holiday from reality. - tic. tic. tic. It's almost 3 AM)
To: decimon
What ignorant bullshit!
How gullible do these apes think we are?
To: null and void
>> “It is rocket science...” <<
.
Beans for dinner?
To: null and void
Really! When there’s no electricity I want to be able to cook, after my propane tanks run out. I have a wood cook stove but they’re so hot to cook on. I like the sound of one that uses twigs.
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posted on
03/14/2011 10:01:05 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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