Posted on 04/21/2006 11:14:50 AM PDT by blam
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Oh, I thought Java Man's first tool was:
javac HelloWorldApp.java
:)
Amazing to think humans have been around for well over a million years and this is how far we have come. Seems to me we should have colonies in space by now.
No, no, it was an alpha version of the Java Toolkit.
Which one crushed the coffee beans? I'm also interested in how Java man filtered that sumantran blend.
Oh my God! My back yard is full of million year old tools, I'm going to be RICH!!!
How did they make coffee with rocks?
I thought it was IBM VisualAge.
"Java Man's First Tools" were probably a mug and a squirt of sheep 1/2 & 1/2.
While this may be the earliest finding of H. erectus tools, other ancestors of ours were using simple Olduwan-style tools as far back as 2.4 million years ago. But it wasn't until 50,000 years ago or so that we really had the explosion in technology, art, etc. that allowed humans to take over the world. What's amazing isn't that that explosion didn't happen earlier, but that it happened at all.
Don't be disappointed. These things take time. Look how far we have come from floating in the primordial soup - that will cheer you up!
"What's amazing isn't that that explosion didn't happen earlier, but that it happened at all."
Why is that amazing?
What do you characterize as the "explosion" about 50,000 years ago?
Amazing to think that people don't recognize our ability for rapid development as evidence *against* a 'million year' history for humanity.
Yes, it would be amazing and we should have colonies in space by now... if we had really been around for a million years.
Doink.
But why did it take so long?
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"Amazing to think humans have been around for well over a million years and this is how far we have come. Seems to me we should have colonies in space by now."
In time, in time, remember we only discovered sex in the 1960s for example, don't be so impatient.
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