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Post by Svartalf » Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:04 am

thanks, that one goe onto my amazon to buy list
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Post by Hermit » Wed Aug 03, 2022 2:23 pm

macdoc wrote:
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Umm Africa is not America and are you sure of your lineage?
ardipithecus ramidus.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... human-race
Rainbow can be pretty confident of his lineage. Why did you even mention Ardipithecus ramidus? No remains of them have been found outside Africa.
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Post by aufbahrung » Wed Aug 03, 2022 2:26 pm

https://www.aardman.com/latest-news/sha ... -artemis-i

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Post by JimC » Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:50 pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/202 ... /101289964
Some days fly by faster than others, and it's not a figment of your imagination.

According to the people who watch the world's clocks for a living, June 29 this year was one of those days.

Earth completed one spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours, making it the shortest day since the dawn of atomic clocks.

On July 26, Earth shaved 1.50 milliseconds off 24 hours.

If the trend gathers pace, timekeepers may need to create the first ever negative leap second to keep our clocks synchronised with the planet's rotation.

So why is Earth spinning faster? And what impact will it have on the way we — and our computers — tell time?
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Post by macdoc » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:48 am

did you actually read his post'
Big deal. Humans have been in Africa, since humans first evolved from the Australopithecines.
The article is about humans in the Americas.

His comeback is
a) wrong continent
b) wrong content.... Australopithecines are not as direct as Ardi and more of an offshoot/parallel evo stream as chimps and bonobos etc are rather than "evolved from."
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:20 pm

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Post by macdoc » Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:25 pm

That's way out of date by over a million years.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... dipithecus

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021 ... n-history/
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If you are truly interested, read the book by the people that found Ardi. Fossil Men.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Aug 04, 2022 8:16 pm


macdoc wrote:That's way out of date by over a million years...
Impossible. Wikipedia has only been going for 21 years. :tea:
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Post by macdoc » Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:09 pm

hehe brat :smoke:
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Post by macdoc » Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:27 pm

Not perfectly on topic but ...
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/twinsburg ... -1.6544857

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Post by rainbow » Wed Aug 10, 2022 7:30 am

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Post by macdoc » Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:02 pm

Very good JWST video.
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Post by rainbow » Thu Aug 11, 2022 2:03 am

Hermit wrote:
Wed Aug 03, 2022 2:23 pm
macdoc wrote:
Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:24 am
Umm Africa is not America and are you sure of your lineage?
ardipithecus ramidus.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/200 ... human-race
Rainbow can be pretty confident of his lineage. Why did you even mention Ardipithecus ramidus? No remains of them have been found outside Africa.
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