Well, then, perhaps you're just not cut out to be a Bee, kept or otherwise! I like the "birds" analogy better anyhow -- the birds that come to our feeders, especially the hummingbirds, still come and go as they please, and still get food from other sources. We just admire them, and make their lives a little easier. Oh, and take big actions they'll never see or understand when other forces threaten to wipe them out. Like demanding green space/undisturbed woods around new developments, regulating certain pesticides, or even combating new parasites. True, it's mostly dealing with problems we've created ourselves -- but it does go to show that we aren't completely indifferent or malevolent. And that's a good thing to hope for from any "more advanced" species...
Ok, so Skeptical Inquirer would definitely be a magazine that I would enjoy. I am shocked that I had not run across this publication before, as I would had definitely subscribed years ago. However, I went to the SUBSCRIBE page and it is only hard copy... I travel a lot, and eschewed mags / papers / etc. YEARS ago, especially due to my international travel. I could not find it, but do they have a soft / email / website subscription available? (Or, is the MonsterTalk page their soft version?)
Fun to see how the world is healing itself in such a short time as with this Coronavirus Drill we are going through. Polution and other problems are visibly abating in such a short time period. However, they are seeing a huge ozone hole opening over the NORTH Pole right now. I wish I were abe to go back to China and India right now to see CLEAR skies opening up! Just to see them! Agreed, Bees are very sensitive to pesticides and other man-made factors. LOL, Birds? they are just... Skeet! (ok, LOL, JUST kidding on the birds thing...)
LOL, naw, don't need them. We have... And with MacGyver at the helm??? We cannot lose!!! RR Satrienus 77 BCE AR Denarius Mars She Wolf Sear 319 Craw 388-1
Excellent, thank you! Now, if we can get you to get rid of your KZINTI Avatar, maybe I can believe what you are saying... (I am a Dog man... remember the Alegandron Theory of Human Intelligence due to symbiotic relationship with Canines?)
Now, if we can get you to get rid of your KZINTI Avatar, maybe I can believe what you are saying... (I am a Dog man... remember the Alegandron Theory of Human Intelligence due to symbiotic relationship with Canines?)
Egyptology is not science, but political ideology. Anything that doesnt fit the proscribed state history and political ends is placed in a drawer and ignored. Also, Its interesting that the Sumerians arrived on the scene and had the complete Trigonometry tables to several decimal places (sign, co-sign, tangent) with no historical trail of mathematical theory. How did that happen?
Why do you think that we have all the evidence and that before then people were stupid. Napier seemingly invented Logs from outa nowhere and maybe Mr Einstein relativity ideas sorta based on another scotsmans insights ( James Clark Maxwell). The time was right for invention, calculus ( Newton and Leibnitz) although Newton kept his stuff quiet until Leibnitz published! Same with public key cryptography apparently GCHQ first! But they kept it quiet! Out of the blue can happen..Faraday- an electric motor that doesn't look like what you will recognise...but it often has an intangible footwork and then it blooms. Just a pity the ancients seemed not to have pre-solved Fermets last theorum ..that would have saved a lot of time!
I introduce a novel "string theory" for the earliest form of currency or exchange, 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. Collecting string has fallen out of favor recently. This "waste not, want not habit" doesn't fit into our technological age; however, I would guess that most of us remember that grandfather, uncle or parent who collected pieces pf string. They would usually tie pieces of string together, roll it into a ball of string, and keep it in a shoebox or drawer for when it was needed. According to the article in the link below, string was found at "an archaeological site in the Rhone River valley of southeastern France, and it's about 40,000 to 50,000 years old. Researchers don't know how Neanderthals used the string or even whether it had been originally attached to the stone cutting tool." Was string an early form of currency or exchange? Just asking. Further observation: We now can deduce that string collectors (who probably grunted as they tied and rolled the string) had genetic ties to Neanderthals and these genes drove them to engage in this seemingly odd practice. https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ancient-discovery-neanderthal-life.html
Sounds like the basis for an excellent article! It must have had tremendous value. How does one even make string?
I read that article today. Neanderthals are becoming more and more fascinating. On another subject, I believe the Chinese Chang 'e Moon Rover found remnants of a Neanderthal spacecraft on the far side of the MOON!
Including some not visible without a telescope? You can see how a fertile imagination can make something out of whatever this is.