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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 14, 2021 10:16:50 GMT -5
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Post by fadingdaylight on Mar 14, 2021 11:06:23 GMT -5
I confess to knowing nothing about this prior to this article, but my interest is now piqued.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 14, 2021 11:11:10 GMT -5
Fascinating. The more we know about the times that came before us, the more we understand that we may not be the only smarties the planet has ever known. Thanks for posting this.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Mar 14, 2021 11:42:36 GMT -5
Seems the smarter we are the less we really know...took some serious brain power to come up with this mechanism.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 14, 2021 11:59:51 GMT -5
Seems the smarter we are the less we really know...took some serious brain power to come up with this mechanism. As well as some world-class craft. When I admire the early Irish and Viking metal-work in the Nationaln Museum in Dublin I am reminded how silly it is to make light of “olden times” and what they were capable of. |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 14, 2021 12:37:36 GMT -5
Fascinating. The more we know about the times that came before us, the more we understand that we may not be the only smarties the planet has ever known. Thanks for posting this. Technologically we are advancing by great strides, but collectively wisdom is on a downward spiral. |
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Post by Darin on Mar 14, 2021 12:51:57 GMT -5
Can it help keep track of my Pangolin? 😉 |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 14, 2021 16:14:29 GMT -5
Can it help keep track of my Pangolin? 😉 Only when it's 10 o'clock. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 14, 2021 16:18:23 GMT -5
I love stuff like this. The astronomical observations and math and engineering skills are incredible. Heck, it took modern people over a century to make one like it.
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Post by Darin on Mar 14, 2021 16:22:36 GMT -5
I love stuff like this. The astronomical observations and math and engineering skills are incredible. Heck, it took modern people over a century to make one like it. I firmly believe we've been here as an advanced species more than once. Catastrophe / Natural Disaster is the all mighty "reset" button. Right now, we are long overdue for a shift in the Poles. Won't that be ... umm ... interesting? |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Mar 14, 2021 16:30:36 GMT -5
What exactly does one smoke while watching the world burn?
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 14, 2021 16:31:43 GMT -5
"May you live in interesting times." --ancient curse
Civilizations rise and fall. Earth has had major extinction events and climate changes long before the quarter million years people have been here. We're doomed. Now I'm having an existential crisis...thanks, man.
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Post by fadingdaylight on Mar 14, 2021 16:33:21 GMT -5
Just remember, in terms of physics, you're never really gone. Just changed into ash and gases.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 14, 2021 16:33:21 GMT -5
What exactly does one smoke while watching the world burn? Hmmm. Gotta think on that one. |
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 14, 2021 19:33:46 GMT -5
I love stuff like this. The astronomical observations and math and engineering skills are incredible. Heck, it took modern people over a century to make one like it. I firmly believe we've been here as an advanced species more than once. Catastrophe / Natural Disaster is the all mighty "reset" button. Right now, we are long overdue for a shift in the Poles. Won't that be ... umm ... interesting? Who says we are an advanced species? Take that man’s name! |
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Post by Darin on Mar 14, 2021 19:38:55 GMT -5
Advanced enough to remove ourselves from Natural Selection ... the beginning of the end, IMHO.
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Post by puffy on Mar 14, 2021 20:49:13 GMT -5
I've heard it said that every weapon ever created is eventually used..If that's true for the future we are in a world of trouble.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 14, 2021 21:15:01 GMT -5
I've heard it said that every weapon ever created is eventually used..If that's true for the future we are in a world of trouble. Considering the level of turmoil and hatred “out there”, isn’t it miraculous that one of those many, many nukes hasn’t been used? Do we even know where all the nuclear arsenal of the former USSR is right now? Does anyone? We do indeed live in “interesting times.” And, by the way, that is said to be a Chinese curse. Appropriate maybe. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 15, 2021 8:35:42 GMT -5
What exactly does one smoke while watching the world burn? Captain Black Grape. |
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Post by briarbuck on Mar 15, 2021 10:25:42 GMT -5
Watched the entire thing. That was brilliant. Thanks
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Post by sperrytops on Mar 15, 2021 11:42:50 GMT -5
What exactly does one smoke while watching the world burn? Captain Black Grape. OMG. Seriously? |
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 15, 2021 15:26:27 GMT -5
I've actually never tried the stuff. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 16, 2021 6:04:06 GMT -5
Captain Black Grape is the new Mixture 79 as a punchline, it seems. The rapidly (in geological time) approaching tech / human singularity prediction is another thing to blow the old brainpan. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 16, 2021 10:42:43 GMT -5
Captain Black Grape is the new Mixture 79 as a punchline, it seems. The rapidly (in geological time) approaching tech / human singularity prediction is another thing to blow the old brainpan. I can smoke CBG, but I can't get past the smell of M79. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 16, 2021 19:04:26 GMT -5
I've had nasty tobaccos and Mixture 79 isn't one of them--to ME. It's got an unusual odor, so i understand your aversion. At least you tried. I'd take it before I'd put Paladin in my pipe again, though. I think people who've never tried M79 or CBG just jump on the hater bandwagon. I'd definitely try the Grape, but also definitely wouldn't spring for a tub!
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Post by urbino on Mar 16, 2021 21:04:40 GMT -5
I intend to try M79 at some point. Probably not CBG. Nothing about that one appeals to me.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 17, 2021 7:17:04 GMT -5
Technically, I guess I have only had the bulk version, so presumably it wasn't doused in quite as much PG as the pouch. I think it's Sutliff 600?
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