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Ancient Trading Raft Sails Anew [ Thor Heyerdahl did it first ]
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| May 13, 2009
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Posted on 05/15/2009 7:08:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Students from Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler's class work on making the full-size authentic replica of a pre-Columbian South American balsa oceangoing raft on the Charles river. Here Leslie Dewan and Feng Wu work. (Credit: Photo / Donna Coveney)
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:08:30 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:09:30 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
So what is Thor Heyerdahl, chopped liver?
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:12:41 AM PDT
by
ThanhPhero
(di hanh huong den La Vang)
To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama; LowCountryJoe
TRADE!!!
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:15:05 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: SunkenCiv
Those deck planks appear to have been sawn and planed using modern equipment, including steel. Also the students were not likely consuming the diet of the people of the time.
Therefore it's totally BOGUS. ;-)
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:15:07 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: SunkenCiv
...none had previously copied the ancient designs and materials so precisely. No modern materials were used in the construction. Yet the photo shows Ms Dewan using nylon rope in the construction. Ha! who knew the pre-Columbians invented nylon?
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:15:52 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspell.)
To: theDentist
Space aliens gave them the technology, which was lost by the Spaniards or something...
To: theDentist
The rope looks like marijuana to me.
The paddles they used in another photo appear to be made using modern glues.
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:21:55 AM PDT
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Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
"Space aliens gave them the technology, which was lost by the Spaniards or something.."
I've always wondered how Mexico got to be the way it is today. Thanx.
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:24:45 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: SunkenCiv
Thor Heyerdahl used bundled reeds and all native products. This is totally bogus dude !
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:26:52 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: ThanhPhero
Thor Heyerdahl did it in 1947
http://www.kon-tiki.no/Ny/e_aapning.php
How the hell did she get to be a professer of Archeology and Ancient Technology? A basket weaving degree would have been more appropriate
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:30:30 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: XeniaSt
No, Thor did a second craft in the ME called the Ra. Don't be so easily confused.
Do some research on your own before letting the rest of know that you may be a compleat idiot. ;-)
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:35:53 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Paladin2
“rest of” —> “rest of us”
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:39:09 AM PDT
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Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: XeniaSt
"The Feast of St. Xenia is celebrated in the Orthodox church on January 24, the day on which she died."
She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church on February 6, 1988. Her feast day in the O.S. is January 24,
Interesting, two St. Xenias.
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:43:53 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:48:02 AM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(Everything for Unions, Nothing for Defense!)
To: Mr Rogers
:’) Pretty sure it did. And the professor probably never heard of Heyerdahl in any coherent way.
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05/15/2009 7:51:53 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: ThanhPhero; Paladin2
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05/15/2009 7:53:43 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: XeniaSt
The claim of the researcher, yes, I agree. Heyerdahl even cut his logs in Ecuador, just like this project did. Gee, wonder where *that* idea came from? The original Kontiki raft at least used to be on display in a museum in Scandinavia. It had to be recovered from that reef, so parts of it are probably reproductions, but they were made by the people who did it the first time.
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:56:10 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Paladin2
"The Feast of St. Xenia is celebrated in the Orthodox church on January 24, the day on which she died." She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church on February 6, 1988. Her feast day in the O.S. is January 24,
Interesting, two St. Xenias.
What a complete and utter ignorant illiterate doofus. try reading ~xeniast
I lived on Xenia Street in Denver.
I do not subscribe to the paganism
of having the Pope declaring someone a saint.
I know by Holy Scriptures that I am one of Yah'shua's saints.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
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posted on
05/15/2009 7:59:33 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: Paladin2
Do some research on your own before letting the rest of know that you may be a compleat idiot. ;-) Kon-Tiki
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posted on
05/15/2009 8:13:44 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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