From the aptly titled “Brain Drain” :
“When the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, they were built on exact 3,4, 5 triangles, to exact mathematical specifications which if we tried to copy with today's technology it would be an almost impossible task.
The likes of astrology that appear to connect with certain sites elsewhere as well, Newgrange comes to mind, and the sheer competence to build both Avebury and Stonehenge with the transportation of stones sometimes over hundreds of miles.
Astrology and mathematics are closely linked, but there appears to be some point in history where the world wide evidence of it being used to any degree, just seems to stop dead.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbreligion/F2213239?thread=7082315
To be fair to the BBC bods they jump all over the poster, but then proceed to sagely head around other oddballs, such as:
“it's clear that reading and writing and mathematics and engineering were going full bore long before the Fertile Crescent, and the alleged beginnings of modern cutlure”
“any similarity between New World pyrmaid construction and Egyptian is not surprising, whether it was because of a common knowledge base before these peoples separated, or because of genetic similarity which expressed itself similarly on both sides of the pond. Either that or some intrepid sailors crossed the Atlantic in reed boats. My money is on the former.”
“The Tattoos on Ozti weren't accupuncture as we understand it. They were more like markers that showed the "spirits/ancestors" the location of pain/injury in order from them to work on those locations.”
While all about them others continued playing keepy-up with their own heads Dancing Crow regained theirs after a brief flirtation with the “parallel evolution” of acupuncture (it's placebo, in case anyone thought it was magic) and referenced the very sensible Snowball school:
“I would suggest that we needed to reach critical mass before the wider human culture expanded as it did”
It’s deeply non-sensational compared with neo-Atlantean accounts of human cultural evolution, and thereby deeply unsatisfying to many - the special effects are nowhere near as good as 10,000 B.C., for example - but until some dirt-digger finds the tomb of King Conan of Aquilonia it’s where the smart money is investing. In the meantime I’m not keeping Howard on my history shelf. I will watch continue to repeats of the Stargate franchise. Amanda and Claudia would miss me.
The likes of astrology that appear to connect with certain sites elsewhere as well, Newgrange comes to mind, and the sheer competence to build both Avebury and Stonehenge with the transportation of stones sometimes over hundreds of miles.
Astrology and mathematics are closely linked, but there appears to be some point in history where the world wide evidence of it being used to any degree, just seems to stop dead.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbreligion/F2213239?thread=7082315
To be fair to the BBC bods they jump all over the poster, but then proceed to sagely head around other oddballs, such as:
“it's clear that reading and writing and mathematics and engineering were going full bore long before the Fertile Crescent, and the alleged beginnings of modern cutlure”
“any similarity between New World pyrmaid construction and Egyptian is not surprising, whether it was because of a common knowledge base before these peoples separated, or because of genetic similarity which expressed itself similarly on both sides of the pond. Either that or some intrepid sailors crossed the Atlantic in reed boats. My money is on the former.”
“The Tattoos on Ozti weren't accupuncture as we understand it. They were more like markers that showed the "spirits/ancestors" the location of pain/injury in order from them to work on those locations.”
While all about them others continued playing keepy-up with their own heads Dancing Crow regained theirs after a brief flirtation with the “parallel evolution” of acupuncture (it's placebo, in case anyone thought it was magic) and referenced the very sensible Snowball school:
“I would suggest that we needed to reach critical mass before the wider human culture expanded as it did”
It’s deeply non-sensational compared with neo-Atlantean accounts of human cultural evolution, and thereby deeply unsatisfying to many - the special effects are nowhere near as good as 10,000 B.C., for example - but until some dirt-digger finds the tomb of King Conan of Aquilonia it’s where the smart money is investing. In the meantime I’m not keeping Howard on my history shelf. I will watch continue to repeats of the Stargate franchise. Amanda and Claudia would miss me.
