Lost human cilvilizations?

[Stylizer1]

Terrance Howard is not completely crazy but if his theory was right that all planets come out of stars that would mean every single planet in the universe was once in the goldie locks zone. All may have been able to sustain life of some type. just thinking that is wild. lol

 

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[RandV]

I'm not going to watch it but I laughed when I saw the screen cap on Netflix. Moai statues? That's not a good indication of the quality of the show as while it may not be general knowledge we know exactly how they were made & moved into place, and there's nothing ancient about it.

There's an air of mystery about Easter Island because first European explores and later South American Hispanics ****ed the place up so badly there was at the lowest point maybe only a dozen original Rapa Nui people left, that rampant myth & speculation took over for a few centuries. But very recently the actual history has more or less been reconstructed, a good example there's a great history youtube channel/podcast called Fall of Civilizations, and they did an episode on the Rapa Nui:



Recalling from memory, they were Polynesian and we know how the Polynesian spread. There was a central quarry on the island where the men of various villages would gather to carve the statues, a project that took years and was basically one big bro competition - keeping the island peaceful and without war. Early explorers were baffled at how these giant statues got moved to the coast, and asking the locals got the ambigious answer 'they walked'. Which was more or less correct as what they did was use ropes to wobble the statues back and forth slowly inching them towards the coast. From the above video I believe some guys in the UK were able to successfully replicate the process.

I don't know the content of the Netflix show but anyone watching it should keep in mind that there is be a lot of confusion on the topic and ample ammunation for Hancock because for centuries it's history was written by Europeans who viewed the Americas as untamed wilderness and its inhabitants tribal savages, but it's only the last few decades that we've started to understand the actual breadth and scope of what existed here before contact. A lot of the previous conception was because we didn't understand the scope of the death toll that 'Old World' disease brought to these shores, but today we estimate about 95% of the population on the two continents were wiped out and the societies/civilizations that existed largeley reclaimed by wilderness by the time Europeans started spreading out.

 

[mattihp]

John will now have to focus efforts on the lookalike, Coco as the original came out

 

[Stylizer1]

I'm not going to watch it but I laughed when I saw the screen cap on Netflix. Moai statues? That's not a good indication of the quality of the show as while it may not be general knowledge we know exactly how they were made & moved into place, and there's nothing ancient about it.

There's an air of mystery about Easter Island because first European explores and later South American Hispanics ****ed the place up so badly there was at the lowest point maybe only a dozen original Rapa Nui people left, that rampant myth & speculation took over for a few centuries. But very recently the actual history has more or less been reconstructed, a good example there's a great history youtube channel/podcast called Fall of Civilizations, and they did an episode on the Rapa Nui:



Recalling from memory, they were Polynesian and we know how the Polynesian spread. There was a central quarry on the island where the men of various villages would gather to carve the statues, a project that took years and was basically one big bro competition - keeping the island peaceful and without war. Early explorers were baffled at how these giant statues got moved to the coast, and asking the locals got the ambigious answer 'they walked'. Which was more or less correct as what they did was use ropes to wobble the statues back and forth slowly inching them towards the coast. From the above video I believe some guys in the UK were able to successfully replicate the process.

I don't know the content of the Netflix show but anyone watching it should keep in mind that there is be a lot of confusion on the topic and ample ammunation for Hancock because for centuries it's history was written by Europeans who viewed the Americas as untamed wilderness and its inhabitants tribal savages, but it's only the last few decades that we've started to understand the actual breadth and scope of what existed here before contact. A lot of the previous conception was because we didn't understand the scope of the death toll that 'Old World' disease brought to these shores, but today we estimate about 95% of the population on the two continents were wiped out and the societies/civilizations that existed largeley reclaimed by wilderness by the time Europeans started spreading out.

Early on in this video the narrator talks of incomplete evidence and big holes in it's story. Most of the information is based on European accounts. Like with most civilizations there is a lot of theoretical explanations. Hancock just has his own angle. Either way it all makes for interesting dialogue.

 

[Skidooboy]

OMFG

when I open a thread about science and see slopehead TRUMPER Joe Rogan on the first post i know that "science" isn't going to be a thing that is actually discussed in the thread. GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA AND READ SOME ACTUAL f***ING BOOKS.