The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

Wingz said:

If you got 3 and a half hours to kill....

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Moon Rock Turns Out to be Fake

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never been anywhere near the moon.

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Guurn said:

It feels good seeing stuff like this. It's just nonsense to think that "primitive" people's were significantly dumber than us. Honestly, I'd bet we would be more accurate generally if we assumed they were just as smart as us.

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ToeMissile said:

The way this guy talks has me researching icepicks on amazon

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Rajaah said:

This is the best evidence I've seen for the "modern humans came here from another planet" idea. Or some modern humans, anyway. See: Xenogears and stories like that.

It's an interesting idea since we're so different from most of the planet. That we were put here, or fled here from somewhere else (Martian nuclear war? Venusian greenhouse effect? The destruction of the 5th planet?)

The main issue is the timeline. Humans appeared well after any of those events supposedly happened. Like hundreds of millions of years after. They could have all been nice, hospitable planets in the past, but you've got a big leap between those planets going south and humans appearing here.

Regardless, it's an interesting theory. Biggest questions for me are, where are the ships we came here in, and what happened to whatever language/history we had? Dunno about the ships, but I think our history just vanished into fables after a couple of generations. Some of it probably became the basis for religions. For example, Noah's Ark may have been a planetary rescue ship.

All of that said, this super-early language being found all over the world, from a point in time when most humans weren't advanced enough for language and couldn't travel the world, seems like an indicator to me that they came from elsewhere and landed all over the world. Their language didn't last through the generations, but it was uniform between all of these different groups around the world.

Maybe these advanced people, as their numbers dwindled, mated with the primitive early humans here to create modern humans. Who knows. It's all interesting to chew on.

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Rajaah said:

Who is this doofus downvoting everyone?

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Ukerric said:

That's mostly cultural and upbringing, not anything intrinsic. That's the advantage we have over those 50ky ancestors of most of non-African mankind. 50k years of cultural accumulation, better practice, better teaching method, the whole shebang. In terms of innate capacity? Nothing much has changed.

The one thing that's going to be hard is to hunt the way the original humans did. We evolved into the Terminators of the animal world - we are pretty much the only species that hunt by exhausting all other prey animals. That antelope which runs fast? Lets see how fast it runs after being pursued by the same upright menace for an hour. Two hours. Three hours. The antelope is panting, it's exhausted, it is overheating... and the Homo Sapiens is still running toward it. Unflinching. Unerring. It pauses every half hour for a minute or two, and then starts again.

And once the antelope stumbles and goes down, the Terminator turns to his comrades and says "fuck men, you're ten minutes behind me; man up! Okay, let's butcher this, we have four hours to go back home"

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