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Iconic Easter Island Statues 'Totally Charred' by Fire
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| OCT. 7, 2022
| Doug Cunningham
Posted on 10/07/2022 5:26:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SunkenCiv
To: nickcarraway
I thought there was no more organic fuel on EI.
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:29:18 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: nickcarraway
Who’s the jackass who caused the fire?
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:29:21 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:30:35 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: nickcarraway
Like, dude, the rocks were like totally charred.
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:32:19 PM PDT
by
JohnnyP
(Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
To: nickcarraway
The smoke damage will wash off during rain periods.
Doubtful that was the first ever fire on the island.
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:33:24 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: nickcarraway
I didn’t know rocks burned.
To: Savage Rider
Don't you remember that episode of
The Flintstones? Fred and Barney joined the Bedrock volunteer fire company. Everything in the town was made of stone, so the whole thing was just a ruse to get out of the house.
Of course, you can figure out what happened. There was fire!
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:41:54 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: nickcarraway
Looks like they will survive to me. 🙂
To: nickcarraway
Oh noes! Some of the statues are now in blackface! Let the protests begin!
To: Robert DeLong
If they burned, could they be petrified wood?
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:50:47 PM PDT
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
To: nickcarraway
Isn’t this all just a little bit too dramatic?
They are made of freakin’ rocks and it is a grass fire in sparse grass.
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:52:13 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
To: nickcarraway
the damage is "irreparable and with consequences beyond what your eyes can see." Color me stupid, but how does one burn stone?
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:54:13 PM PDT
by
grobdriver
(The CDC can KMA!)
To: Jeff Chandler
Climate change, of course.
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posted on
10/07/2022 5:56:17 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
To: JohnnyP
The island is a bleeping VOLCANO. The heads have been HALF BURIED in volcanic ASH for, oh, idunno, maybe a few centuries, maybe a couple thousand years. They are made out of BASALT which came out of the volcano. The notion that a grass fire would do any more than get smoke in their eyes is somewhere out beyond DUMB.
To: grobdriver
They could always call someone with a pressure washer to clean off the soot. Had they never thought of that?
To: nickcarraway
Now they've gone and done it.
The extraterrestrial aliens who built them are gonna come back -
and boy are they pissed...
/s
To: Sequoyah101
The heat from fire can cause rock to crack which would cause damage, BUT as you pointed out, it looks like a grass fire in sparse vegetation. I don’t see how that kind of fire could get hot enough to crack such large stones. The article is seriously lacking in details.
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posted on
10/07/2022 6:01:27 PM PDT
by
Qiviut
(The unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible ark ✝️ .... (author unknown))
To: nickcarraway
Natives saying send us money for granite statues that cannot burn. “It wuz climate change I tells ya”
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posted on
10/07/2022 6:02:07 PM PDT
by
dennisw
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