Easter Island stone circle.
Posted on 02/11/2008 4:04:19 PM PST by blam
GGG Ping.
Everyone knows that the mothership brought the statues and took all the people away to the home planet. Sheesh!!
“Professor Flores and I, we think that the model could be, with the opportune changes, applied to the planet,”
Uhh, no it can’t.
“Of course there are many differences, but surely the planet can be considered an isolated system as Eastern Island was.”
Uhh, no it can’t.
What if the earth’s resources are running out?
I know! I know! Give the U.N. taxing power. More birth control. More abortion.
What if the earth is warming?
I know! I know! Give the U.N. taxing power. More birth control. More abortion.
What if the earth is cooling?
I know! I know! Give the U.N. taxing power. More birth control. More abortion.
One of the better lines was by the chief as the island elders saw that the community was failing. The chief stated, "I'm too busy right now, I have to consult some chicken entrails". (A line I've adopted when faced with such imponderables).
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Everyone knows that cutting down the palm trees caused global warming. This caused the ice caps to melt, and all the people drowned. Why would anyone tell any other scenario in this silly story?
Yup. I have the book...it was to PC for me.
Palms are extremely difficult to cut down. Wonder how they did it.
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Thanks Blam. The collapse came because the culture degenerated into a mania of building those statues, and denuded the island either through that action (or through its very arrival; the death of the original vegetation has also been attributed by some to rats introduced by the first colonists). |
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The message I get is ‘don’t plant big ugly stone heads in your lawn.’
“At that point, they were forced to change their lifestyle, and apparently they did it fighting among themselves instead of collaborating. Perhaps a collaboration among the several tribes could have changed the final part of the evolution of the Eastern Island society.”
Reminds me of what is going on in Zimbabwe and Chad, etc.
Don’t let Moslems take over. They’ll turn a paradise into a desert in less than 1400 years.
Easter Island stone circle.
Maybe they liked to play cards. ;’) Thanks FN. Looks like a foundation. During the “Birdman” cult phase on the island, which was post-statue-building, the populace lived in clans and each clan had its secret cave where they kept their various cultural items. I don’t think the caves (from what little I’ve read about this) were in any way large enough to shelter the entire clan, so they probably lived in huts and whatnot. Since the trees vanished to make rollers for the statues and to cook stuff, building with small stones must have looked pretty easy. :’)
I’ll bet it would be easier to cut a palm down than it would be to put a big stone head up.
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