Of course the particular handheld devices you mentioned have to be plugged into a machine to work, or integrated into a tablet laptop, which isn't exactly something you can easily draw on while you stand in line for a few hours.
Actually all of this could easily be solved with many large space based mirrors to light/shade the earth as needed. Baddaboombaddabing, it's the same time everywhere!
Sure it would kill off all kinds of animals and probably heat the earth up, but wouldn't it be worth it to have it be the same time everywhere on earth? And don't forget we could have nice long days every day of the year.
Considering the alternatives it sounds like a great deal for me. Not so much for everything that has found itself stuck on the end of one of our spears.
Actually considering Neanderthals were pretty much exclusively carnivorous, it would be much more likely they would eat us. The point I was trying to make though is, we were good at killing things. The Neanderthals, a similar but different being existed until we arrived. All things considered, I'd say we certainly had a hand (or more likely a club and spear) in their disappearance. I don't know if we ate them though.
The thing is, neither lions nor humans typically wandered around alone (at least, not for long). We had the whole team effort thing going for us. That and a knack for making pointy things good for stabbing.
One interesting on topic aside: it is postulated that Neanderthals were pretty much carnivours:
Through bone-chemistry analyses, the team determined the Neandertals must have feasted on meat. The Neandertal diet - which may have included mammoths - was similar to other top-level carnivores from the time period, such as wolves and lions, the researchers said. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/06/000613071408.htm
We being able to munch on pretty much anything would be a massive advantage.
Seems like we survived that one. And year for year I can pretty much guarantee we kill (and have killed, for quite some time) more animals per capita than anything except our fine microscope friends.
Why do people still think knives are instruments of beauty? Can you show me anyone who looked better one year after their surgery than they did before?
Exactly; most likely they were the initial aggressors, defending their territory from us as we poured in. But when it comes to killing, seriously there is no other animal that does it as efficiently as we do. 30 large species of mammals went extinct when humans arrived in North America 10,000 years after the last Neanderthal disappeared. It was like a buffet where we ate our way down from the largest animals towards the smaller ones.
It is intriguing that they appeared to be stronger than humans, their children probably matured faster than human children, and yet.... here we are.
Not only that, we generally know when to restrain our killing.
I'm not so sure about that part of what you said though.
Of course the problem with bush meat is it is theorized that we as a species may have had various nasty diseases passed to us by eating bush meat, including possibly AIDS and a scary variant:
It states that 345 Neanderthal individuals have been discovered so far. That seems like an awfully small number to make any assumptions about how much head clubbing was going on at the time (argument from the previous article that we didn't kill them off), especially if the ones that we discovered were in the few groups that managed to hide out somewhere that we didn't find them.
If humans were competing with nearby Neanderthals (chances are they were; we can't even keep from killing each other, and resources were almost certainly limited), them being unlike us (genetically unable to procreate with us, according to recent studies) would almost certainly make them animals from the viewpoint of our ancestors. Their looks wouldn't help much either.
Also the fact that there were mass extinctions of all kinds of animals right after humans arrived in nearly every locale is no coincidence. We are efficient killers.
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Exactly; if this guy was smart enough to reinstall Windows, he could get a job as a Windows admin somewhere instead of stealing laptops for a living.
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Most useless dongle ever: you use it to disable your built in copy protection.
...my girlfriend who likes TV and Facebook a bit more than the average person?
I dunno, have you met the average person? TV and Facebook are way better than those poor sods.
Plus their high speed coverage generally only extends to large urban areas.
Oddly enough, this is where most people live.
How about an inexpensive crank flashlight with a morse code key engraved on it?
On the upside, not only would you not need matches, but you could use it as a flashlight.
I forgot something in my response?
Of course the particular handheld devices you mentioned have to be plugged into a machine to work, or integrated into a tablet laptop, which isn't exactly something you can easily draw on while you stand in line for a few hours.
Actually all of this could easily be solved with many large space based mirrors to light/shade the earth as needed. Baddaboombaddabing, it's the same time everywhere!
Sure it would kill off all kinds of animals and probably heat the earth up, but wouldn't it be worth it to have it be the same time everywhere on earth? And don't forget we could have nice long days every day of the year.
Yeah all the 100GB drives the data was on originally have been taken home by employees or sold on ebay already.
Can't Paramount sue them for the money they will make off of the four copies they sell (plus damages)?
Luckily it comes with a matching chamberpot.
I think the problem really comes when, having defeated all other foes, we start turning our spears on ourselves.
Considering the alternatives it sounds like a great deal for me. Not so much for everything that has found itself stuck on the end of one of our spears.
Actually considering Neanderthals were pretty much exclusively carnivorous, it would be much more likely they would eat us. The point I was trying to make though is, we were good at killing things. The Neanderthals, a similar but different being existed until we arrived. All things considered, I'd say we certainly had a hand (or more likely a club and spear) in their disappearance. I don't know if we ate them though.
The thing is, neither lions nor humans typically wandered around alone (at least, not for long). We had the whole team effort thing going for us. That and a knack for making pointy things good for stabbing.
One interesting on topic aside: it is postulated that Neanderthals were pretty much carnivours:
Through bone-chemistry analyses, the team determined the Neandertals must have feasted on meat. The Neandertal diet - which may have included mammoths - was similar to other top-level carnivores from the time period, such as wolves and lions, the researchers said.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/06/000613071408.htm
We being able to munch on pretty much anything would be a massive advantage.
How about 10,000 humans or less in a world full of predators?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Seems like we survived that one. And year for year I can pretty much guarantee we kill (and have killed, for quite some time) more animals per capita than anything except our fine microscope friends.
Why do people still think knives are instruments of beauty? Can you show me anyone who looked better one year after their surgery than they did before?
Yes:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30586321/
Exactly; most likely they were the initial aggressors, defending their territory from us as we poured in. But when it comes to killing, seriously there is no other animal that does it as efficiently as we do. 30 large species of mammals went extinct when humans arrived in North America 10,000 years after the last Neanderthal disappeared. It was like a buffet where we ate our way down from the largest animals towards the smaller ones.
It is intriguing that they appeared to be stronger than humans, their children probably matured faster than human children, and yet.... here we are.
Not only that, we generally know when to restrain our killing.
I'm not so sure about that part of what you said though.
Of course the problem with bush meat is it is theorized that we as a species may have had various nasty diseases passed to us by eating bush meat, including possibly AIDS and a scary variant:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/3954963.stm
Also of interest is this article
It states that 345 Neanderthal individuals have been discovered so far. That seems like an awfully small number to make any assumptions about how much head clubbing was going on at the time (argument from the previous article that we didn't kill them off), especially if the ones that we discovered were in the few groups that managed to hide out somewhere that we didn't find them.
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Finally-unearthing-the-secrets-of.5228844.jp
Maybe we could clone some and kill them off again!
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/24/2333236&from=rss
Though these guys not only made tools and most likely had spoken language, they also made pretty spiffy cave paintings.
But if you can't breed with it and it tastes like bacon, adios Neanderthals....
If humans were competing with nearby Neanderthals (chances are they were; we can't even keep from killing each other, and resources were almost certainly limited), them being unlike us (genetically unable to procreate with us, according to recent studies) would almost certainly make them animals from the viewpoint of our ancestors. Their looks wouldn't help much either.
Also the fact that there were mass extinctions of all kinds of animals right after humans arrived in nearly every locale is no coincidence. We are efficient killers.
..has more to do with the lack of chimps and gorillas in the US and Europe..
Yeah we ate them all already.