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Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa
sciencehabit writes "A team working in South Africa claims to have found the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up to 77,000 years ago—50,000 years earlier than previous evidence for human bedding. These early mattresses apparently were even specially prepared to be resistant to mosquitoes and other insects."
My friends in the Word,
These atheist-backed scientists have surely fabricated these so-called "sleeping mats," as it is clearly outlined in the Bible that God created Adam and Eve 5,000 years ago. Note that I am not questioning the existence of these mats, as these could have possibly BEEN used by Adam or one of his descendants after being thrown out of Eden, I am questioning the "evidence" of their age from the so-called "carbon-dating" process. I wish these scientists well with their work and pray that they will break free from the yoke of grants from godless individuals and governments.
Your friend,
Jake
Did it come from IKEA?
It's a nasty habit that I've been trying to quit for 77,000 years.
For people wondering how a mattress could possibly be mosquito resistant it was because it was made out of a specific plant that was a natural insecticide.
Which begs the question, was that lost technology? I don't see Africans using it for the past couple thousand years or anyone else.
My favorite from the article:
"There were no rules for separate eating, working, or sleeping places," she says. "Breakfast in bed may have been an almost daily occurrence."
Perhaps not. I am sure there was the, "Don't touch Thag's shit rule" though.
Have gnu, will travel.
So the bed wasn't made from, 3 wool and 3 wood planks?
Yeah I know, a few days late since he's out of the race; but I couldn't resist the setup.
Zog
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Years are measured since a law was created, a planet was discovered or celestial body appears and dissappears on schedule, or for however long lasts a remnant article of property or fact.
This planet Earth is much older, but according to Holy Scriptures it has only been inhabitted for the past 6k years by man. That is all. Everyone else is comparing apples to bananas. Something came along 6k years ago and caused planet Earth to expand at the core and this is what separated mankind apart to cause Speciation. Speciation only occured for man when small numbers in population were locked together and lose genetic diversity long enough for mutations to occur only specific to their populations. Only problem is before everyone was called man they were called gods, and there are plenty of temples hundreds of feet below ocean around India to prove that the sea-water was a recent endurance of terraforming a solid core-less planet Earth into a planet more hostile than Mars if it weren't for the insulation of sea-water. India is old and has relics to prove that India and the Mayans were once the same but Mayans didn't have any temples under-water.
A Russian scientist is quoted as saying that the Moon is actually older than planet Earth and that the Moon is a hollowed-out space-station that had a mechanical north-polar entrance that NASA exploded some missiles into around the Year 2011. Yea, I said the Year 2011 because that's how long it's been since Chryst died (not killed, not suicided, but terminated) because a bunch of nasty people were spreading STD's and bad behaviours to their kids and stealing and killing one-another and shit. That's how long it's been since someone was brave enough to do anything about brightening anyone's day of societal addictions: one man, behaved like an atheist in teaching to do what you can while you are alive, said to be the Son of God: did what modern atheists seem too affraid to do in paying your neighbor's debts and removing burdens. Yea... it's been 2011 Years...since anyone was that brave.
SLOW day at Slashdot.
Slow day.
You could just go lay down on a bed and talk a nap instead of reading slashdot then.
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he definitely has been around for a while though :p
Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that
Dr. Wadley today announced an incredible discovery relating to the prehistoric mattresses, each had a protruding leaf with sub-millimeter perforations. These perforations outlined words on the leaves: "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law. Tongati River Mattress Works. Composition 35% Sedges, 40% Rushes, 25% Grasses. Machine Wash Cold. Do Not Bleach. Machine Drying May Degrade Flame Retardant, Please Hang Dry".
Believed to depict a woman placing her cold-ass feet on the back of a male sleeping on the same cot.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
That's fine and all part of science - learning naturally alters what you know. From that perspective, it's hardly a surprise. Earliest dates for cooking, advanced stone tool making, etc, have been pushed back by far more significant amounts this year. Domestication of horses may also have been much earlier, but for some curious reason the scholars there have... ...declined to release the data. Anyways, I don't regard that part as being particularly news.
The newsworthy elements to this story:
* Further evidence of abstract and indirect thinking in early humans, pretty much putting beyond question that these skills existed back then
* Further evidence of society evolving gradually rather than in big leaps
* Further evidence that archaeology is massively underfunded given its contributions to understanding of the human condition
* Further evidence that academics in the field are completely incapable of communicating with each other, as there would otherwise be no surprise
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
You evolved from "niggers," just like the rest of us.
So would you say that he is perhaps brighter than a nigger to the same degree that a nigger is brighter than an ape? The drive seems to be towards intelligence, not stupidity - so your reply only proves you incorrect.
So it's a mattress ...right? People sleep and do stuff on them....right? So they test all the shit they find and do some DNA tests ....right? Then they grow one of them ...like in the movie ...right? And bingo....we know what, and where we came from.....right? I mean there has to be some spilt sperm left over.....Right?
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Perhaps some hominoids go back that far.
The article doesn't even say what sleep number the beds were set to.
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So do 77000 year old africans still respawn there?
They found the world's oldest porn hidden under those world's oldest beds.
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