PinGGG!.....................
“Light-Years” - groan.
Ancient aliens transferred technology to the Mayans. I’m a believer in the ancient alien explanation for the technical wonders built by primitive civilizations.
Light years, I always regarded that as, you know, kind of a distance in space. These clever reporters know there’s a thing, spacetime. I’m sure that’s what was meant.
Anyway, I bet Mayans knew cuz they were so smart!
I was in Cancun at Chicheniza on 12/21/2012 at 11:11 and — NOTHING! I wanted to be at Ground Zero when the End came.
I wanted my money back but who is there to ask?
(Actually, it was crowded but pretty funny. A bunch of overaged hippies were playing “ring around the rosie” around the Great Pyramid, then would all fall down, then start again.)
They filtered it through human skulls.
Hey, they had find a way to filter all that human blood out of the water, didn’t they?
The Mayans weren’t conquered by anyone but themselves. Poor land management was their down fall. They were gone as a civilization befor the Spanish arrived.
I lived with the Mayans every winter for ten years up until last year. I lived in a small village where bilingual meant Spanish and Mayan. I was the only gringo in the small village of about 500 families. It was an hours drive inland from Tulum. Once a month I had to travel to Tulum so I could speak English with others. They are the most happy people and they have nothing, they are subsistence farmers. They are completely exploited by the oligarchy as slave labor to the resorts on the Riviera Maya. I lived in the Zona Maya. I will never rfeturn, and I miss them so much.
Yes, we know archeology is never lacking for praise of the Maya as a wonderful and “high” culture, which of course was run on rewards and punishments of a religio-political system built on blood and murder of sacrificial victims.
Even older water filtration systems have been found in Egypt, South Asia and Greece, but Tikal’s version was probably superior. Zeolite is used to purify water today because its pores are well sized to filter out microbes such as cyanobacteria, and its ions bind to heavy metals.Yeah, and the Hindus "discovered" the cleansing properties of the most oxygenated of the world's major rivers, the Ganges, and built its anti-bacterial properties into an entire religion.
Necessity is the mother of invention to coin a phrase