[lesser_satan]

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[Pyro7480]

GGG ping!

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Michael.SF.]

All well and good, indicating that the Abo's were an intelligent race of people, who were able to understand quite well the harsh environment that they lived in and were able to make the most of what nature had provided them.

Who knows, maybe in a few thousand more years they may have progressed to the point where they might have caught up with our ancestors.

[aft_lizard]

Did Frank Herbert know about this? In Dune the Fremen built large underground resevoirs so they could survive and maybe change the face of Arrakis.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam and Pyro7480.

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[SunkenCiv]

He based his work on oral histories, Dreamtime stories, rock art, artefacts and ceremonial body painting as well as written accounts by white missionaries, surveyors, settlers, anthropologists and explorers.

GEORGE: Maybe I'll go down to the track. Put it all on a horse...

JERRY: Why don't you put it in the *bank*?

GEORGE: The *bank*? This is *found* money. I want to *parlay* it. I wanna make a big score!

JERRY: *Oh*, you mean you wanna *lose* it...

[djf]

Read about the Qanats of Iran.

http://users.bart.nl/~leenders/txt/qanats.html

[Dustbunny]

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