Posted on 06/08/2005 11:08:52 AM PDT by blam
"400,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Discovered In Mazandaran (Iran)"
Cool, they'll need them once we nuke Iran back into the stone age.
Sounds like a good excuse to go to the hardware store. Eventually, you accumulate enough tools to have whatever you need at hand & won't have to look for any tool, ever again.
Further, if somebody had gotten their hands on the meteor from Mars found up in the Artic and made a hand axe could it be construed as an armed Martian invasion?
One method: All rocks have a patina (varnish) on their surfaces. There would be old patina and 'new' patina and can be (somewhat) dated.
"Sounds like a good excuse to go to the hardware store. Eventually, you accumulate enough tools to have whatever you need at hand & won't have to look for any tool, ever again."
Mr. Sears would not agree, I'm afraid. Speaking of Sears, I wonder if those tools are marked "Craftsman"?
Mr. Sears has never had any problem with me purchasing spares. The black hole that exists in many homes is one of the things that keeps Mr. Sears in business.
If the stone tools weren't marked with something like "Craftsman" on all sides, picture Mr. Caveman setting down a tool that it took him hours to make in a pile of rocks.
Opposite end. Try down in the Antarctic.
I was holding my map upside down.
The big white bear wasn't a tip off? ;>)
The same pic roughly 1/3 size:
Just include the dimensions(attributes) within the HTML.
The only real trick is to maintain aspect ratio(width/height ratio if you attended pulik skool ;^)
The HTML: <img src="http://www.karikaturmuseum.at/site/presse/the_rolling_stones_dv.jpg" width="575" height="375">
FGS
Researchers were able to confirm the date of the tools when they noticed the inscription on the handle of one which read: 38,005 BC Made in China.
Archeologists note that the tools would have been easier to find if a UPS Tracking Number had originally been utilized.
Blam, the Out of Africa Theory stll sounds like BS to me.
Actually, there *is* a handy "trick" to that -- just specify the desired width *OR* height, but not both, and the browser will automatically calculate the other to maintain the original aspect ratio when it displays the image.
Somebody make this real simple for me.....
The "ROCK" is 400,000 years old.
How in the hell do they "know" that the CUTS IN THE ROCK are 400,000 years old?
I have read something similar from another poster, but never tried it. The question I had at the time was whether or not the browser would make space for the pic with only one attribute, maybe height? Your thoughts?
A pet peeve: DANCING THREADS AND OTHER STUFF(VANITY!)
I use width="500" which loads fairly quickly for all but the slower VIC-20 folks. If the width is less than 500 already I just post without modification. They load fine.
I wonder if using the height alone would allow the browser to create the room on the thread for the graphic so that the thread would load normally if one goes to the middle of a thread to respond to a ping or whatever. Going to the beginning of a thread hardly ever creates problems because the graphics/pics are loading further down the thread and by the time you work your way down the thread all the pics are loaded. Not many others seem to be bothered with the dancing thread problem annoyance in any case. Like I said, it's a pet peeve.
They load fine.
Well, more or less.
FGS
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