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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 9:57 pm
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| So 9,000 years ago, it was warmer and wetter until now. By about 5,000 years ago it was cooling back off a bit and was more similar than today. There is nothing that makes any sense about the idea that Egypt magically got more rainfall during the end of the Younger Dryas. The evidence shows that no... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 2:50 pm
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 2:29 pm
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| I mean I accept there is an error factor there but 9000 years old is still not 5000 years old. Normally, 12,000 years ago might be round-off error from 11,600 or 11,700, but when it comes to climate, there were major changes in that time. As we warmed up from the latest glaciation period in our cur... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 1:16 pm
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 5:32 am
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| The Sahara Desert, including areas that now form part of Egypt, experienced a major rainy period from roughly 12,000 to 5,000 years ago, with peak rainfall around 9,000 years ago. The weathering Schoch recognised is from the peak period and before. In other words, the only rain that matters was bef... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 5:05 am
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: why do people dislike subway? |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 5:05 am
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| I went to one Subway shop one weekend years ago and ordered a tuna sandwich. The employee couldn't find a scoop so he reached into the sink and grabbed a dirty scoop from among the items in the sink and used that. I watched in completely disbelief that he could be so stupid. After he put the tuna on... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 4:55 am
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| Its actually true, Despite Egyptian head of Antiquities, Zawi Hawass (who is qualified in nothing) Giza has not experienced significant rainfall causing the weathering erosion on the Giza plateau for 12,000 years. Hawass is saying prove the erosion is not caused by wind/sand. Robert Schoch is a Pro... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 4:38 am
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| 12,000 years ago, we were still in the Younger Dryas. Farming would have been very difficult during that period, if not impossible. What I have said more than once, it was the much warmer weather of the Holocene Climatic Optimum that enabled our ancestors to abandon a hunter gatherer lifestyle and ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 4:34 am
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| Its actually true, Despite Egyptian head of Antiquities, Zawi Hawass (who is qualified in nothing) Giza has not experienced significant rainfall causing the weathering erosion on the Giza plateau for 12,000 years. Hawass is saying prove the erosion is not caused by wind/sand. Robert Schoch is a Pro... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 3:53 am
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| I find it difficult to believe that Gobleke tepe was a farming community prior to the end of the Younger Dryas which was still occurring 12,000 years ago. You can't rely on hunting and gathering and have time to build enormous structures in Gobleke tepe 12,000 years ago (apparently all the excavati... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 05 May 2025, 3:14 am
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| Are you claiming that Giza hasn't seen any significant rainfall since 12,000 years ago? It has, in fact, seen significant amounts of rainfall up to about 5,000 years ago. Northern Africa has had periods of significant rainfall during the warmer climate of the Holocene Climatic Optimum. Even the Saha... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 04 May 2025, 8:02 pm
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| Not at all. It is not even close. There are a number of cases of horizontal/lateral gene transfer that nobody would be crazy enough to think were done at all intentionally. For example, the human genome contains a variety of viral genes including genes from the Borna Virus. Do you think that was do... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 11:20 pm
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MatchboxVagabond wrote: They build and test the proposed methods that ancient peoples were building or solving problems. It's just a branch of the field, not all of them are doing science.
Does it prove that those methods are the ones that were used? Or ones that might have been used? |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: why do people dislike subway? |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 10:47 pm
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| I think because subway struggles to maintain relevance. They do sandwiches, and it's very unlikely sandwiches will become trendy like the other fast food establishments. That being said, in my suburb. A footlong sub without the cookie and drink cost around $13. Which I consider to be good value, it... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 10:14 pm
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| Someone planted tetraploid wheat along with a related grass (they didn't have the seed cleaning facilities like we do today) and accidentally developed the first hexaploid wheat. Doesn't it require an understanding of plant breeding to go from tetraploid to hexaploid? Southern turkey is the norther... |
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