To: js1138
There is hardly any orally transmitted history of the year without a summer, or the little ice age, or the seven mile wide tornado that ripped through the American midwest last century. Those are small fry in comparison. Civilization survived -- even thrived -- during those disasters. We're talking a disaster that reduced the human population to a bare minimum.
907 posted on
09/21/2006 5:41:27 PM PDT by
Celtjew Libertarian
("Don't take life so seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." -- Bugs Bunny)
To: Celtjew Libertarian; js1138
besides, we have the advantage of written records and other durable datastorage media, and are VERY accustomed to relying on them. oral tradition has been pretty dead in the west for centuries.
908 posted on
09/21/2006 5:44:43 PM PDT by
King Prout
(many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
To: Celtjew Libertarian
We're talking a disaster that reduced the human population to a bare minimum.And I' asking who would be alive to remember such an event, and how would they know it wasn't local?
909 posted on
09/21/2006 5:52:13 PM PDT by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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