My neighbor. This is gonna be tough...
Posted on 05/07/2008 6:28:29 PM PDT by blam
“I’d still like to know why the Anasazi built their settlements largely in caves.”
Nobody had invented the teepee yet.
My neighbor. This is gonna be tough...
There is soon to be a revolution in water purification because of nanotechnology. Filters with nanotubes only large enough to pass single molecules of water. They use 1/4th of the energy of typical water purification.
Typically, I can imagine a very large pipeline at the bottom of the ocean. Water, crude filtered to eliminate “biologicals”, is pushed by water pressure alone through nano-filters, so that an inner pipeline is filled with fresh water, surrounded by slightly more concentrated brine which returns to the ocean, to maintain its salinity for sea life.
The fresh water in the inner pipeline is pumped to shore, where it is monitored for salinity and purity, then pumped directly into the water mains.
Dream big. :’) IBTZ. ;’D
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There's a little...Aztec, enough for some to speculate about a possible clash of cultures.
If he had stopped right there he'd have maintained a little credibility for scientific honesty.
...as a result of increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
By tacking on this empirically-unsupported ideologically-derived assertion which does not follow from any of the data cited in the article he blows whatever credibility he had.
If he had included even a mild qualifier such as "...which some researchers speculate could be a result of increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere" he'd have maintained at least a modicum of scientific integrity.
The arrogance of these pseudo-scientific hacks, however, won't allow them to acknowledge any degree of the uncertainty in their "theories" required by a basic application of logic and the scientific method. The reason for this, however, is simply that these types and their "pronouncements" aren't really about science, they're about ideology and dogma.
An oportunity to MLM 'waterless' cookware?
Every bar-girl knows that: look for the lighter shade of skin on the finger.
I know there's a town of Aztec located not too far from the Mesa Verde ruins and other Anasazi settlements, but I was not aware that any Aztec culture extend up so far north.
"But Turner contends that a "band of thugs" - Toltecs, for whom cannibalism was part of religious practice - made their way to Chaco Canyon from central Mexico. These invaders used cannibalism to overwhelm the unsuspecting Anasazi and terrorize the populace into submission over a period of 200 years."
"Turner says the culture's carefully constructed social fabric began to tear. Finally, the Anasazi fled the oppressive cultists and sought haven deep in remote canyons. The next time any part of the culture appeared, these Pueblo people were found to have constructed elaborate dwellings adhered to the sheer sides of cliffs."
"Generations of scientists have postulated that such suspended villages - located far from water - represented a fear of a great foe. Turner suggests the Anasazi took up these defensive positions against a horrible enemy - the evil that had infiltrated their own people."
The only thing that makes sense to me is that they were defensive position, because they were certainly hard to get to.
It wasn’t much of a strategy, though, since they grew their crops in plain sight above the cliffs, and they certainly couldn’t protect them from within the cliffs. And, even in peace time, these folks were doing a whole bunch of rigorous climbing just to accomplish routine tasks.
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