Recent comments in /f/EarthPorn

TheDominantBullfrog t1_ix3xdzg wrote

That's seems like an extremely reductive response to what I said. Is there a current explanation for the ability of stone age peoples to move megalithic stones in such precise manner? Literally my only claim is that the lack of explanation for this indicates that there are aspects of our history that is either misunderstood, misrepresented, or not understood at all.

Yes, I know, rolling logs, walking the heads, there's theoretical or more solid explanations for much of it! But to act like I'm some brain dead pop culture idiot for wondering how people who supposedly barely had use of tools lifted stones weighing many many tons into precise shapes seems weird to me.

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Kim_Josh_Un t1_ix3t7o7 wrote

Can someone explain this? I’d have thought the other way around, as in the river bank wall opened and little bits of water kept flowing down paths of least resistance, creating the fractal pattern. But you’re saying that it’s the opposite? It starts at the branches (where are those sources of water?) and they join up into bigger and bigger highways before leading to the main river?

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ROX_Genghis t1_ix3s07e wrote

I'm seeing the vegetation growing in the drainage channels and only the drainage channels. Even dry channels capture some water during a rain and retain some moisture afterwards. So it's simply water that the plants crave (not Gatorade). I don't think N,P, or K play any significant role in vegetation distribution here.

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TheDominantBullfrog t1_ix3r9xs wrote

So I'm not a plasma scarring.. guy or whatever that fella is, but there's absolutely megalithic structures remaining all over the world with zero explanation as to how they got there with varieties of dating methods putting a lot of doubt into how stone age peoples would have made them edit: anyone want to actually tell me why I'm wrong

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pielz t1_ix3ptvs wrote

Jesus dude. These people amaze me. Like obviously actual knowledge and understanding is beyond their grasp so they feel special and smart by parroting these weird conspiracies that every now and then will make some other stupid person go "woah holy shit you're right" and they get that dopamine hit and feel like they mean something. It's sad.

If only they could see how much it reveals about how little they actually understand haha

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chacotoday t1_ix3phvq wrote

these fractal patterns are everywhere. the same pattern can be seen from aerial views of snow, on leaves, snowflakes and crystals, rivers, etc. they're almost universal a characteristic of nature. of course the conspiracy theory minded latch onto anything, even common natural phenomena, to push their insane narratives

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miniZuben t1_ix3lvqs wrote

If there were previous advanced civilizations on earth, there would be traces of them. They would have left behind archeological artifacts and remnants of mining for heavy metals. Their tools and creations and structures would be easy to find, as ours will still be many millennia after we are gone.

There are no such traces because there were no such advanced civilizations. Away with ye, conspiracy nut.

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