Yes, I agree. I believe that work originated here:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/rethinking-the-fall-of-easter-island/1
Feature article, so apparently not paywalled - I'm not a subscriber, but
I can see it.
Jeff
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, David L Babcock ol
to outdo each other. Each Easter Island statue has to
be bigger and better than the last. A bit like our Olympic Games, or the
building of cathedrals. The instinctive drive for growth.
Nigel
On 10/10/2012 07:20, Jeff Berkowitz wrote:
Yes, I agree. I believe that work originated here:
http
of the deforestation was to provide the
wood to move the statues. Whether this was religious or not is unclear,
although that is plausible. It may be in part this need for groups of
people to outdo each other. Each Easter Island statue has to be bigger and
better than the last. A bit like our
, Jed Rothwell wrote:
fznidar...@aol.com wrote:
The Easter Island society ran out of wood and could not fish. The
society
died out.
They did not die out. They were still there a century or two later when
Europeans showed up. Granted, they were in dire straits. They destroyed
their own environment
Rapa Nui, a few generations ago: Keep carving that basalt, citizens. Your
intellectually superior rulers know that the only way to get out of this
crisis is to spend the last of our strength and dimensionally significant
forest resources in carving out and dragging these giant Tikis to the other
Rick Monteverde wrote:
Instead we cripple ourselves and spend what may be the last of our
economic cred in the world on monitoring volcanoes and such. Got
proof the monitoring we now have is inadequate to inform for public
safety? Of course you don't. It isn't.
Rick, this is nonsense. Your
to mess around with.
- Rick
-Original Message-
From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:40 PM
To: vortex-L@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Happy Easter (island), and keep your volcanoes clean
Rick Monteverde wrote:
Instead we cripple ourselves
@eskimo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Vo]: [OT] Google Maps Easter Eggs
Terry Blanton wrote:
Vorts,
While spying on my neighbors about a mile away, Tournament Players
Club, aka Sugarloaf Country Club, I came across this image:
http://maps.google.com/?ie
Michel Jullian wrote:
You could be right Stephen but don't you agree the outline of the
blimp looks quite unnatural? Much worse than ordinary image compression
artefacts I would say.
Oh man. I really looked at the blimp this time, and you're right -- at
high mag, it looks like the lower
Terry Blanton wrote:
Vorts,
While spying on my neighbors about a mile away, Tournament Players
Club, aka Sugarloaf Country Club, I came across this image:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8z=17ll=34.010799,-84.115362spn=0.004562,0.
007231t=kom=1
http://tinyurl.com/wclkj
Now, if that is a
I'm not so sure that it was faked. If true, this airship was flying several
hundred to a thousand feet above the ground. Taking the sun angle and
direction from cars and building shadows, the shadow of the airship should
be at least 1000 to 2000 feet away.
I saw a couple of candidates for the
It's definitely faked. Zoom in and look at the outline of the blimp.
Michel
- Original Message -
From: Nick Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]: [OT] Google Maps Easter Eggs
I'm not so sure that it was faked
Vorts,
While spying on my neighbors about a mile away, Tournament Players
Club, aka Sugarloaf Country Club, I came across this image:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8z=17ll=34.010799,-84.115362spn=0.004562,0.
007231t=kom=1
http://tinyurl.com/wclkj
Now, if that is a dirigible, where's the
You have to click on satellite to see the dirigible.
Terry
On 11/24/06, Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vorts,
While spying on my neighbors about a mile away, Tournament Players
Club, aka Sugarloaf Country Club, I came across this image:
On 11/24/06, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well spotted Terry, if you zoom in on the dirigible you can see very clearly
that the photo has been faked :)
Either for fun, or maybe to hide what was visible at that place on the original
photo?
Interesting! The people who live here
On 11/24/06, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will you resist the temptation to go and have a look Terry? Who knows, she may
still be there ;-)
Alas, it's a gated community. :-(
Terry
Will you resist the temptation to go and have a look Terry? Who knows, she may
still be there ;-)
Michel
- Original Message -
From: Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Vo]: [OT] Google Maps Easter Eggs
On 11
jn? not familiar with that book...
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:35:30 -0600, RC Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry Blanton wrote..
What compels you to do this ?
Best explained by reading verses 3 and 4.
1Jn 4: 1-4.
As I stated, the Vortex group remains a viable site that enriches
thats what frightens me the most.
resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
im christian, but the fundies frighten the living hell out of me.
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:23:04 -0500 (EST), Jed Rothwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry Blanton writes:
Pack-hunting predator instinct.
I
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Terry Blanton wrote..
What compels you to do this ?
Best explained by reading verses 3 and 4.
1Jn 4: 1-4.
As I stated, the Vortex group remains a viable site that enriches the mind
and provokes thought It is also revealing.
Richard
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Lets get back
to science.
Richard
Amen to that!
s
before men, him will I also
deny before My Father who is in heaven. Matt. 10:32-33
- Original Message -
From: Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:27 AM
Subject: [OT] Re: Easter
What compels you to do this?
--- RC Macaulay [EMAIL
This is my 2-part offering for the occasion an
on-topic Easter offering (to the god-of-energy, one
must presume, whether or not Abraham knew this feature
was part of the package) not to mention, to his
over-worked mistress, Gaia.
The details of this next-gen reactor design have been
more like
Terry Blanton wrote:
What compels you to do
this?
Pack-hunting predator instinct.
- Jed
That is one of the most compelling and insightful
things I have ever seen you say. I would find it
extemely humorous did I not fear that I am the quarry.
--- Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pack-hunting predator instinct.
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Terry Blanton writes:
Pack-hunting predator instinct.
I would find it
extemely humorous did I not fear that I am the quarry.
Lol!
Seriously (okay, somewhat seriously) they do not want to hunt you, they want
you to join their pack and follow their leadership and their initiative. In
other
Easter is a holiday date set aside tocelebrate the
resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I confess that Jesushas comein the flesh, He
was crucified to death on the cross, He rose from the dead on the third day
andnow sitsin Heaven at the right hand of the Father. I believe His
What compels you to do this?
--- RC Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I confess that Jesus has come in the flesh,
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