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But that's not news. It's known in academia, you are just not in academia, not at any level where it would matter.

> Speculating on what was happening doesn't seem like something beyond the pale of reasonable discourse.

No, yes it is entirely unreasonable in a world wide publicity stunt if all you have is a napkin calculation and no hard evidence of your own.

It's damning evidence enough that Netflix aren't having an expert on the show, isn't it?

> The larger point is that accusing people of playing victims is always a distraction from actual argume

Yes, and when they are really playing they become the victim of their own ploy.

> Part of his theory (which is well explained in the show) ...

That's where scientific standards may differ.

I cannot drop in to gather a couple of references and find more than a tinfoilhat lady and two hobby blogs that were likely set up to promote the show, I have no use for it.

>... is that there are a handful of ancient cultures like the Aztecs who have stories of an "enlightened visitor" like Quetzalcoatl,

It's a 50:50 chance it's black or white and that's heavily skewed by the sun in favor of brightness.

> memories of an "enlightened visitor" like Quetzalcoatl, bringing the knowledge necessary to elevate their cultures into organized society.

Yes, thank velociraptor our lord and savior!

> In other words: these ancient cultures, who are mostly non-white, were "saved" by an ancient white civilization.

No, no. Proper racism says they were white and got bastardised. But Hancock doesn't say anyhting like that other than what may be warranted by years in currect affairs economics, I guess.

Christianity is based on the same stipulation but less technocratic, and it can be racist as hell, no doubt, but, well

Oh, I guess you are right.

Archaeology is a particularly conservative field

Where else would you get "voltage sink", "gate" (similarly German "Gatter" - gate, flip flop, switch).

It's not a closed system internally. Theorizing about the open circuit voltage is legitimate for an ideal voltage source but entirely useless since it is completely isolated. It is indeed a confusing abstraction, I have to concure.

The important part is that they have asked the right question.

Besides, the rule of headlines applies.

Bold to assume that "it" is reality.

Conversely, classical mechanics is discrete at the level where physics is applied. That it is applied to realia goes without saying. But it is not applied to reality as a whole.

Dr. Félix Rodriguez: "The oldest dating we have is from 4200 years ago" in a recent BBC documentary. I never heard of the University of the Azores until today.

I wouldn't call it a grand narrative of history. It is grandious and it is a narrative that holds the episodes together, but it isn't even beginning to narrate history because the narrative is explicitly speculative.

So, a narrative of grand speculative hypotheses bound together by deus ex machina.

In other news, reports of the Azores settled by 2000 BCE.

>... we strongly believe he is wrong. His flawed thinking implies that Indigenous people do not deserve credit for their cultural heritage.

The implication is racist regardless of Hancock's argument, it's anthropological and philosophical more than archaeological.

You had me at "Netflix".

In terms of scale, you cannot simply order a larger factory. It has opportunity cost.

> There is apparently no text

I actually have hoped that "rewrites history" would be more literal.

There are however traces in the material composition that could be as good as a fingerprint.

> There is apparently no text

I have hoped that "rewrites history" would be more literal.

There are however traces in the material composition that could be as good as a way description.

So, which yesteryear assumptions are broken?

Not at all. The piacenza liver is a blob for all I know.

Maybe undetectable in the lab set up? To rival a rave PA is perhaps not part of the initial design goal.

Err, the blind control was literally gathering responses. Anyone can have had such an experience with inverse effects. It could have systematic biases and the peer review may be too benevolent. It is not news, but entertaining, even to the peer reviewers.

But isn't science more about problem solving? The problems they must have solved are how do we test this fairly obvious fact? I didn't read the paper and am wondering just what the standard unit for an increase in dance would be.

It is most common, yes. That doesn't make it an accurate description.

This starts out very well, instant favorite. I hope it stays on track.

Classical Turing machines have terrible runtime complexity

Do you not have a word for glass-displacement? That's the name of this practice in German, Gläser-Rücken.

Kind of did, indirectly. Wasn't the shop operating at a loss to boot out the competition?

> Addendum: If you're considering donating to Wikipedia, I suggest you look into doing it for Internet Archive

Wikipedia could forward a little sum if need be, technically?

Isn't that reminiscent of Bezos buying a news paper as public mouth piece?!

I don't know about game mechanics but light travels far in 20ms, ca. 2km I reckon (in vacuum)

On a planetary scale that's like yesterday.

Ironic if those are the result of mutation caused by the UV radiation. If UV causes cancer in humans it's probably not good for fungi DNA.

I think some indoor gardens do add low UV but I don't know exactly

Etymologically, this may be less than certain. German Stiftung ("foundation"), stiften ("to found, donate") or simply Stift as in Altenstift ("pension home") might derive from this, but that's uncertain.

Since all houses would be build like this ("Pfahlbauten") on marsh land, only foreign visitors would find it an outstanding feature. It's conceivable that this would be noted in official books, but the setting is an opportunity for misunderstandings (case in point, marsh may or may not refer to outskirts, borderland, wasteland, but I mean swamps).

Stift ("peg") has otherwise come to mean "pen, pencil" (initially of charcoal, I believe), but there is no related verb that I'm aware of (ie. no to pen, to sign). Another sense, "apprentice" (also Stippie, Stepke, potentially "child"), might be like an intern of the foundation, but stepchild offers another possibility if the intern was an orphan and the church took them in (see also staff).

It's notable that the steps of a ladder are little more than pegs, although step and step- are held distinct,

through Proto-Indo-European roots (wiktionary):

* stebʰ- ("to stand still, to harden")

* steyp- ("stiff, errect")

* stab- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”)

* (s)tewp- (“to push, strike”)

are supposed to derive

staff / stave (G Stab)

stiff (thus G Stift beside steif "stiff")

step (G Stufe, stapfen only in Fussstapfen "foot prints, etc.)

step-* (G stief-), "Related to Old English stīepan (“to deprive, bereave”)

This is rather inscrutable because small details like a vowel can be found incompatible with a reconstruction, indicating eg. a loanword, but phonology alone is not enough. The final consonants -p or -b may be conditioned by vowel length and the development of the auslaut through Kluge's law is uncertain anyway. There is a virtually endless plethora of such words in st- (stage, stand, stick, stuck, sturdy, ...).

So, nobody can really say that they are not related, and the dating may be questionable. The modus operandi is to separate them until proof to the opposite. Albeit, the reconstruction depends on the choice of comparanda and a good theory to explain them. A theory is only as good as the explanations that it has to offer. Or in other words, there is a big difference between working within a framework, rather mechanically, or trying to set-up, extend and complete the frame. Now PIE stab-, steb- or stebʰ- are alternative reconstructions, the former from overcome theories with less precise phonology. However, historical linguistics is intimately related to, well, history and the evidence that they can afford. Relative chronologies as for the spread of Christendom depend on so many factors and technology, more recently, that it is very difficult to date something not before. Textual evidence only allows at the latest, as a rule.

Nevertheless, I have a hunch that stub* may be related (PIE (s)tew-, "compare steep* (“sharp slope”)"). I never thought of a stub-article as a foundation, perhaps because it may get shaved for various reasons. G Stoppel ("stubble") on the other hand is from Latin stipula, through Low German, from PIE steyp-. I thought for a moment that the typographic sense of stub ("A row heading in a table [...]") equates to G Staffel- ("table"), staffeln (to cascade; NB: cp. scada "ladder"), etc. Stipulation (boilerplate) doesn't work any better. The stuff of legends (G Stoff) is interesting, given the legend on a map. Be that as it may, little churches had probably started as outposts, bridge-heads in a sense.

There is also Serbo-Croatian snub "pillar", a regular cognate of Polish kościół słupowy ("stave church")! The connotation does not speak well of the church, indicating corruption, see słop: shell corporation, straw owner.