Aboriginal People Built Water Tunnels

ABC Net ^ | 3-15-2006 | Judy Skatssoon

[djf]

One of the first Scientific American articles I can remember reading.

Used to sell seeds door to door in the spring to buy them.

I wouldn't spend a plugged nickel on the new, revamped, ultra politically correct SciAm's now.

[S0122017]

Politically correct??
You probably missed the current articles concerning creationists and ethics?

They ferociously attack creationists (im not a creationists) to the point that you begin to wonder why the editors waste their time on it instead of publishing something about, i dont know, SCIENCE?!

Even worse, the editors seem to enjoy putting the word "ethics" between quotations every time they use it, and they have even insinuated that ethics are all made up by opponents of science..

I don't read sciam anymore anyway, they report more and more about politics and how existence is pointless so nothing matters and less and less about science.
I suggest newscientist, although it rather lacks details in it's articles even more than sciam.

[S0122017]

There are more ways to progress than materialistic ways..
The vast majority of their culture and religion is kept behind close doors to this day, you shouldn't just them without knowing them. They may have a better understanding of existence then our descendants ever will.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

and I guess they never needed wheelbarrows either...

It took Europe 4000 years after they had the wheel to figure out the concept of the wheelbarrow.

[Varda]

If your ancestors built a civilization from the ground up this must mean you two are either Middle Eastern, Chinese, Egyptian or Meso/South American.

[William Terrell]

Sorry. . .

[William Terrell]

Could be any of those.

[elli1]

If your ancestors built a civilization from the ground up this must mean you two are either Middle Eastern, Chinese, Egyptian or Meso/South American.

Uh-oh...Call a vet. High Horse has gone gimpy. ;)

[Michael.SF.]

There are more ways to progress than materialistic ways..

Who said my statement was limited to materialism?

I suppose also the irony of being lectured about materialism from someone via this medium is lost on you.

[Michael.SF.]

this must mean you two are either Middle Eastern, Chinese, Egyptian or Meso/South American.

Actually, we could be anyone of about a dozen races who have contributed more to the betterment of mankind then the Abo's.

[wardaddy]

oh boy....another all cultures are relative revisionist one

what's your angle?

some sort of non-European origin and mad about it?

or just a fuzzy idealist?

Anthropological works these days exist only to "prove" biases that Caucazoid peoples were somehow worse or less developed than others (in the face of empirical observations glaringly obvious to the contrary) Usually, politically correct folks will claim Meso-Europeans were cruel, barbaric or stole whatever civilization benchmark they have customarily been credited with.

I suppose you too worship at the feet of Diamond as well....that environment is everything.

Btw...first picts of wheelbarrows are from China....whatever that proves.. it's only slightly more acceptable to credit Adavanced Asians with technological benchmarks over primitives since they are rapidly replacing or at least equalling Caucaziods in the West as achievers...so enjoy it while you can.

Chinese and Indo-Aryan accomplishments being able to be lauded will likely have a short shelf life as they too will be viewed as oppressors soon enough.

It's not about truth anymore. It's about explaining or excusing why some cultures lag....even though they simply do for a variety of reasons.

Cultural inequality is a fact, can't sweep it under the rug. All cultures have their edge in certain environments they are accustomed to

[S0122017]

Who said my statement was limited to materialism? I suppose also the irony of being lectured about materialism from someone via this medium is lost on you.

I suppose the irony of repeatedly falling back to pointing out materialistic achievements after claiming you're statements are not limited to materialism is lost to you.

[S0122017]

Anthropological works these days exist only to "prove" biases that Caucazoid peoples were somehow worse or less developed than others

?
But their evil remarks won't hurt you if you wear tin foil around you're head.

[wardaddy]

you're head.

I'm a head...lol...wel, admittedly I did smoke a bit of Marley in my youth.

[S0122017]

That is correct english. You don't know you're own language?

[S0122017]

Seeing as you lack sufficient understanding of you're own language, I like to propose that you keep you're opinions concerning other ethnicities and their mental abilities to yourselve.

I am quite certain the vast majority of aboriginals possess more knowledge of the english language then you seem to manifest, despite the fact that it is not their mother tongue.

[Varda]

This article is about the knowledge the aborigines had about water in an extreme environment. The transmission of that knowledge to the early Australian settlers apparently helped that section of mankind and given the need to use water wisely in our western states it could help the American section of mankind.

The fact that a complex culture might glean something useful from a simple culture is nothing to put anyones panties in a knot.

[S0122017]

So it seems that it really IS spelled "youre head"...
My mistake, it ain't my language. I learned english partly from the internet, and there seems to be a lack of consistent spelling on the web.

[wardaddy]

It's "your" head revisionist foolio.

"you're" means you+are

let me guess ...another minority (foreigner I suppose) angle wishing to bloviate about evil less developed crackers?

warm regards

how old are you?...8?

btw...aborigines are great...relatively speaking...happy now?

or do you need more nuance and qualifying?

too funny...another canard spewing PC social liberal pretending on a conservative board

here's a link to a dictionary Einstein:

http://www.answers.com/topic/you-re

[S0122017]

1) Im not american, and pretty certain my english is still
better then youre dutch.
2) It's shows a petty mind and even lousier personality to
not let the matter rest after I already admitted my
mistake.
3) If you consider everyone in disagreement with you
a 'socialist liberal', you will find this forum
to be chockablock with them.
4) Nice of you to now claim that aborigines
are 'relatively great'. I guess that is youre way of
admitting mistake, so I will let that matter rest.