The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown
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Hateyou
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Chukzombi
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Chris
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Interesting thing I heard once is that the legends of things like elves and orcs and dwarves (and bigfoots?) are just how different groups of protohumans saw each other.
Elves are just how Neanderthals saw Humans, prettier and more cultured. Orcs are how Humans saw Neanderthals, ugly and stupid. We have some Neanderthal in our gene pool so we have both sets of legends.
Elves are just how Neanderthals saw Humans, prettier and more cultured. Orcs are how Humans saw Neanderthals, ugly and stupid. We have some Neanderthal in our gene pool so we have both sets of legends.
Chukzombi
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want it revealed that Neanderthal was actually the "smart" race and it was the salty humans who hunted them down to extinction?
moonarchia
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pharmakos
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yup. and stories like this: Disabled Neanderthal survived into old age because he was looked after have led some people to think that neanderthals were more altruistic / had stronger communities than Homo sapiens.
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Kiroy
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I thought the current theories is that it was less human's hunting them to extinction and more humans (and other events) fucking up the food sources, which neanderthals relied much more heavily on to fuel their strong bodies and smarter brains.
How much 'mind blown' would you be if we come to find out it was neanderthals (or a neanderthal / human hybrid) civilization doing these mega megalithic structures (300+ tons) pre 12k and further BC. The intelligence and raw strength quotients would start to make what was going on make more sense.
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Chris
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Huh. Wasn't it that both Humans and Neaderthals were armed with spears at the time, but Humans could throw theirs due to being smarter/more agile and Neanderthals couldn't? I've never seen anything saying that Neanderthals were smarter.
I think it's likely it was a mix of Humans overhunting Europe once they moved in and being able to adapt to that more quickly, Humans killing Neanderthals more often in confrontations due to being better armed (throwing spears) and interbreeding.
pharmakos
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Neanderthals Went Extinct Because They Were Smart, Sad, and Alone -- Just Like You | Inverse
note -- didn't read the article, it just had the best headline when i googled.
Chukzombi
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all it takes is a crusty old finger to break perceived history.
Rare 85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Our Understanding of African Migration | Science | Smithsonian
Rare 85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Our Understanding of African Migration | Science | Smithsonian
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I have been ignoring this guy for a while now, and then he drops a decent video.
This footage is from 2010.
The first video is pretty amazing after about 40 seconds in.
Not the first time I've seen those lights in videos.
I can't belive she caught these things movement characteristics on film.
Turn your brightness up to make it out clearer.
The follow up into the crop circle created by the starting vid, and the astounding differences between legit circles and man made circles.
This footage is from 2010.
The first video is pretty amazing after about 40 seconds in.
Not the first time I've seen those lights in videos.
I can't belive she caught these things movement characteristics on film.
Turn your brightness up to make it out clearer.
The follow up into the crop circle created by the starting vid, and the astounding differences between legit circles and man made circles.
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Chukzombi
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pharmakos
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you're equating watching a 8 minute youtube video with reading a book?
most youtube conspiracy videos could easily be explained with a reasonably length article and accompanying images, rather than being forced to digest the information at the rate of the video author's "dramatic" pacing.
"but what IF.... the aliens played a role after all?" [[10 second fade in on Angkor Wat]]
Chukzombi
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its sad you talk shit to me about fucking space aliens. it shows you havent watched a goddamned fucking thing i posted, but you're a fucking expert on it.
pharmakos
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i'm not denying its true, i actually find ancient alien stuff really interesting, just get sick of the dramatic tropes all those sorts of videos usually have. and i just generally have a disdain for digesting information by video. most videos of that genre, the amount of information presented in 10 minutes could have been read in about 1 or 2.
there's too much shit on the internet already for me to waste time learning via video when i could just read *shrugs* i was being a little catty, wasn't meaning to offend, sorry if i did