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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Which came first - knives or caucasians?

« on: 09/12/2024 07:51:00 »

An interesting point on knives, one of the other "faint or vague" substances to make a cutting implement from is "tooth" of animals.
Largely I gather the prehistoric logic is food and hunting.
Too, perhaps, hunting and being a carnivore is the philosophical or brain development humans use, copying creatures tactics and assuming the result is food
I once put a post into this forum many years back about Ethiopia and Somalia having what best I could perceive from Google Earth to be "ramps" hewn into the sides of hills and rises in the geography that lead to the top where at least some part has a cliff face
This would be either for hunting or security or both.
Here's an example.
You need Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16twRvMNo7/?mibextid=D5vuiz

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Geek Speak / Re: What is 'maths'?

« on: 24/11/2024 06:38:17 »

(alancalverd) Bees have an accountancy sense of more or less (heard on ABC Radio Australia science news), too when removing honey frames from the hive as a keeper, after a particular ratio is removed and displaced it is wise to wear beekeeping gear!
Bees do have a concept of quantity.

More or less is the general quantifier measurement value of "thuggery".
It is interesting to note in a computer you cannot physically store one or zero as "no charge" in the capacitance, only small charge (weak) or large charge (strong), it's unpractical because of component leakage, it better to take a specified measurement parameter to understand everything was operating correctly.
Have an optical sight gag of possible thuggery at 20m on the bar of gearth or maps.
19.235535,18.289995
Which is higher or lower surface?

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Technology / Re: How does my car calculate fuel economy?

« on: 20/11/2024 07:41:58 »

Diesel (drained water from the fuel filter, service done on time)?

or petrol (unleaded , unleaded premium) ?

It still fluctuates so nothing mechanical. It's petrol, so I have wondered about the quality of fuels, whether light distilates are being boiled off or burned, or simply a different quality of fuel or contamination. I feel it is definatley something to do with the air, the humidity content, smog etc.

It is considered the humidity and moisture from air , BUT , the reason is the underground storage tanks at petrol stations must have a breather vent (not simply each motor vehicle). Too , it is each station must adhere to quality control but for one reason or another it can be a problem.
BUT, again finally, a diesel filter is not quite the same as a petrol filter in terms of water, truth is though to cut it short ,either will cease to allow flow to the engine fuel controls if enough water is caught.
Diesel vehicles use very good blocking filters in a filter reservoir and have a drain screw.
Diesel is coloured (refinery must add a dye colour) but water is clear and heavier.

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Technology / Re: After reading this, would you let AI drive your car?

« on: 18/11/2024 12:29:20 »

Not the final problem as I see it, AI vehicles have limitations to sensor operation parameters, and no ability to genuinely determine anomaly or misperceiveable misrepresentations.
However, if the article was generated AI, I suppose it's is comparative. If not, it may been a clip board or broken file join error.

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Technology / Re: How does my car calculate fuel economy?

« on: 18/11/2024 10:12:18 »

In the 1980s in the USA car manufacturers started to put computers into cars to collect information on performance.
These first computers were manufacturer specific until the industry made a common specification and added Diagnostic data collection.

The specification is known as OBD "On Board Diagnostics" , the USA spec. and there are others JOBD and EOBD (Japanese , European).

When a fault is sensed the onboard computer stores a special OBD "lookup error code" you can find online.
e.g. P1003
Then it switches on the "check engine" light on the dashboard to alert a driver or mechanic to take a look with the OBD reader tool.

I changed the fuel filter in a Holden Captiva diesel recently, unlike the old days before 2000 , there were electric data and power source leads into the filter housing top and bottom, I had to also change the master cylinder and re bleed the brakes because the other master cylinder sinks the pedal to the floor, it had data connectors onto the master cylinder for the ABS unit.

Anyhow, all vehicles on the road legally must have some form of OBD. You can buy particular OBD readers from good engineering and  industrial tool stores.

You will find the OBD data connection port in your car usually to the wall side of the driver in the bottom of the dashboard or just under it if not covered by a plastic inset plate.

Today the motor is averaging 52mpg, this is city driving, traffic lights, junctions, etc. Only a week ago it was averaging 44mpg for the same type of driving. The numbers are via the cars display?

Diesel (drained water from the fuel filter, service done on time)?

or petrol (unleaded , unleaded premium) ?
Does the engine blow more smoke than before and seem less powerful (spark plugs) , (piston rings over 250,000 km's)?
.
Exhaust gas return valve clean?

Bad hydraulic lifters (tappets worn tips on manually tuned valve system)?

Excess carbon build up "on" cylinder - cylinder head internal, it causes loss of correct fuel ignition "moment".

A rare and vague possibility is a fuel leak. Done Any work on the  fuel lines (non screw in lines use a special plug clipping tool). Start the car on a clean level cement area, take a look under it before you start it front and at the back where the tank is underneath, run it for five minutes idling , give it a few revs for a moment, nothing hard (tap the accelerator a few times just after starting ) . When time is up find if fuel and drips have formed on the ground as a stain under the vehicle.

A less common one is water leaking into the cylinders from a blown head gasket. If you must get this tested (there are off the shelf special test kits) always take the vehicle to a "reputable mechanic" not simply down the road!
When I got the Captiva, the guy told me it only has 177,000 km's on the clock and it was serviced regularly and recently.
When I test drove it the brake pedal sank to the floor a number of times, and the automatic transmission skipped over a gear to the top gear.
When I tried to find the transmission oil level I couldn't get a reading, it took two litres to fill it, the correct quantity is 2.5l , the engine oil was black as night (no service there if it ever was changed). The fuel filter was black as night, a wonder the engine ran with any power! It was a bit more powerful after the fuel filter was changed.
I'm getting it to pink slip test for the rego soon.

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Geek Speak / Re: Complaint about Windows 11

« on: 18/11/2024 09:52:01 »

Petrochemicals: ..."All the boxes that pop up email sign ups permissions verifications and general commercial garbage of the Internet are slowly rendering it a nightmare"...

My main problems with the replacement laptop I bought, too much commercial offerings on the commercial sidebar.
However, you can remove it as too many pop up notification if you go to the "control panel".

The reason for these newer kernels is three new computing systems.

1. 64 bit processor and FAT64 file system along with UTF-64 text encoding (a little compressed with the point there)

2. UEFI aka bios has replaced traditional chipset bios-MBR system  (rather than a small computer starting a large computer and loading it's OS for it, the two systems are combined with the main OS so it has reach into the bios for better in use control)

3. The main reason, OS using multi core remains a little in its infancy , the OS requires to manage both RAM and cores during multiple separate jobs running simultaneous together. The underlying programmes assembled into the OS have improved immensely. I was using Slackwaren15.0 recently ran a video at the same time writing to the USB flash it was coming from through a hub shows it is all operating astoundingly better.(windows does much the same during jobs) NB: 8GB RAM since Win11 is a minimum.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Is this an ancient Somali city or known of?

« on: 13/11/2024 11:20:34 »

This comment I made on a YouTube video about moving to  first farming from hunter gatherer, will give you an idea of what this irrigation problem is.

Quite frankly, I find that horrifyingly spurious of logic for time line (first hominid farming)!
Australopithecus is around 8 - 6 million years and part of its defined point of it being Hominid is it's hunting tools and cutters, at least with the ones close to the era of transition to a newer hominid. Homo Sapiens intelligence is as much now  as it would been for  Homo sapiens 500,000 1/2 a million years previous. It is understood too the previous to Homo Sapiens had IQ enough to be a farmer and some form of civil engineering ability, but 1/2 a million years to one million years will not leave much behind to understand. In this contrast too, consider the condition of the dead sea scrolls after only 2000 years and ancient Egyptian papyrus, it is quite fair to say writing and not merely regional villages and farming existed as far back as one million years.

(Trees have always been a problem for farming , but to what effect and how?)

You can consider both development and continuation of societies (too) would been interrupted by the various ice ages in one and a half to half a million years!

It's a very long time to progress at the same IQ Level, Perhaps they suffered from government bureaucracy and legislation. 

Because scientists feel the giant mega lake in Chad and the Sahara were fertile until around 5000 BC , t can be assumed Somalia too may been far better for supporting life far from its rivers (aside coastlines).
Chad Libya (20m on the maps or Google Earth bar)
19.235535,18.289995


Soh, after 1/2 a million to a million and a half years, at the same IQ, what would that be like to suspect from remote sensing , given granite can be deteriorated alike sandstone in that time , too massive local geographic features can or will be altered , though the actions and activities and the requirements to build and survive would be the same as the known of recent ancient civilizations?

There are too many geometric and accurate large constructed shapes committing form to ignore for hundreds of meters around.
One example elsewhere  (10m on the maps or Google Earth bar)
4.8827751,45.2839269
Of such a point, it would take massive numbers of people at work for much of what is probably any one of these obscured objects.
While wondering where the land of Punt is, talked of in ancient Egypt, one ancient Egyptian report account of a Pharaohs expedition i found on the internet said ..."loaded the goods onto camels and men and took them overland to a port on the river"...
This "implies" the river was or may not be near, and without true evidence, far from where they gained the goods, but that also means "irrigation" would be needed !
What i find a serious detail far from rivers of Somalia (up to 50km) is the topography is quite flat with only extremely low rise hills and mounds, but also the quantity of rain created causeways and flat gullies.
Such topography would be excellent for irrigation, but would require dams an some protection or ease at removing sand from sandstorms.
The land of Punt as any one best report or description gave was extremely south of the horn of Africa, but never known to be explicitly located.
While geneticist's think they have found punt through baboons, i don't find it has much meaning(validity), ancient Egyptian purpose was trade not collecting baboons, Egypt has baboons, Baboons are a mobile creature and there are many AKA cartoons by reliefs and translated stories can be read that reference Punt and is a special long journey for trade in BC eras.
King Narmer (Menes) or Scorpion's palette rock carving relief (6000bc) has two animals with extremely long necks that probably mean Giraffes as a depiction or some facet thereof, of essence these creatures do not reach upper Egypt, but it does seem to have some relevance with them. You cannot rely on such a point to make a location specific either pin point or regional.
To the East of the following river in Somalia is a strip 30 to 50 kilometers wide and loaded with evidence of ruins of an ancient nature.
However, this one is obviously condensed to many underlying small and large buildings.

(southern hemisphere numeric)
from here 3.73889018982854, 45.99772096410327
In this one, covered in sand, it is subtle at best from 10m to 30m below the marker
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MSNedR8cxgcMG8qn9

to here   3.736105769595218, 45.99931431119443
This too is subtle but there is too much in 100s of meters simply showing shadow of height not merely shape throughout the area.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/aNL2y4fLopaTXKwZ7

This is a good reason why you would ask if it is a city, there is also another north of it but more covered in trees.(should also take a look what is in the origin feeder channel)
3.7388278139997944, 45.999826832382865
It seems (on second look with a different machine with different render engine Linux Slackware 15.0 , Google Earth 7.3.2.5815 (64-bit) now , 4 core hanging on by a thread , initially the other is Win 11 10 core 2 virtual core , both are 1920 resolution machine display head) this could remain what i think it is but exactly how it operates is now not clear, there appear to be buildings (more accurately deliberate stone structures) in the sparse area (subtle) , and a large quantities of ru, bble

This one is a serious subtlety , five or six side base mound (only if i'm proved right at a good resolution - impossible with as much this better google earth image set!!!) Best way to say it.
3.739426692472062,45.99731912304966

At close range the outlines are definite.
NOTE i am well conditioned to viewing the haziness of the map at close range, whether maps or google earth if nothing is obscuring site and resolution is enough (not common). To understand this, do not commit too much attention to the layout of trees making outlines, as they say," the proof is in the eating of the pudding" (probably old Bureau-speak), not relying on guidelines. How contrasting shadow is formed is better and displacement of heights of near objects that are essentially themselves the same and same constructed height as the other.

Two identifiable objects that are embedded in imagery that are immensely subtle
DEMONSTRATION EXAMPLE FROM THIS AREA

Somali-15m-egg-shape-upright (this is some form of masonry that is broken - another piece of it is near)
3.740863348684023,45.99609943385278

upright-square-stone-structure-change-of-ground-height-base-tier-level (the problem of looking at this is it is reasonably overhead of the square pylon object - this seems aksum - although thenother seems ajuran of architecture, ALSO with great subtlety, the surface level on one side is much lower at the base of these objects "square pylons" than the higher south eastern side - change of levels, the trees on either side are the clue - i'd show you others but they would then be a beer pounding argument - and , yes , your minds interpretation can foul things often enough , each location "can" take the whole battery session to assess (usually a few pin points per battery)). There are other facets of worked stone as part of it conjoined that prove its actuallity.
3.738328131659144,45.99525028389868

Its not clear whether the area was a fort, palace or city.

*These attached images showing from much further inland much more unpractical remote locations is to show the vast quantity of modification to environment of can only be achieved with vast numbers of people and irrigation.
Irrigation seems to be done by flooding by tier levels. Interestingly, ancient Egyptians have an hieroglyph symbol for "irrigation tunnel" , and are known to carve shafts 50 meters deep straight down through bedrock and adjoin for hundreds of meters, as much Kilometers!
Someone once told me the saddest thing to see is the catacombs under the main Anubis temple because it stretches for Kilometers and is simply stacked with mummies of sacrificed puppies, but, at least it took thousands of years, but did cause extensions of those tunnels to accommodate them all.(most things below ground are bedrock).

*Back up in the more north hotbed of suspect to irrigation, if you use remote sensing to find these, see what you think of this, some type of stone structure.
4.8543313, 45.3577732
I would argue, you would need a clear picture pixel perfect to understand 100m X 100m ,because while you cannot successfully argue it is, you cannot successfully argue it isn't!
Perfect for remote sensing imaging students.
(NB there is a pattern occurring with what may be dams in the tops of these low height mound hills, a small square (my bad! I mean rectangle more often when I say square) dam like appears dug out beside the large round(usually) main version .
There are also other cuttings into these hills to modify them (insets cut into the side of the base) that are more than able to be coincidence of nature.

Note : If this were ancient, the Blue Nile starts or ends only around 100km away but appears a very primitive method of adjustments ancient Egyptians use by similarity

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Understanding Ancient Latin...

« on: 13/11/2024 10:47:09 »

Sorry... was that meant to be "yes" or "no"?

Given personally knowing African Americans a piece, "no".
Because language such as "jive" a form of cultural slang comparable to "strine" or "cockney slang" is an AKA individuality (culture group) NOT an attempt or misuse of language.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Understanding Ancient Latin...

« on: 11/11/2024 13:40:50 »

EDITED
Interesting you say Latin is simple, that would make it easier to use or teach for trade. I found an article about Southern most Roman trade along the African coast, seems beyond the horn of Africa the tribes were difficult dangerous and unruly but the Roman traders persisted anyhow.
It actually went 5000km past the southern border of the Roman Empire (Egypt incorporated, pardon the pun,  at that time) to Rhapta port in Tanzania!
That's past all the three rivers that go to the sea in southern Somalia!
In fact, the profits were so good they used special ships but also had a Roman "trade colony" on an island on the southern coast of Africa!

I would well understand the Romans fortifying themselves on an island there, as I would remember the stock group, the barrel group, the trigger group, the chambering group,receiver group, operating group, and the cycle of function, feeding chambering, locking, firing, unlocking, extracting, ejecting and cocking, just to think of standing in anywhere around that region, and any means of cleaning!
Apparently the first island they used for trade was so constantly attacked by pirates they shifted to a better more defensible island.

It may ever brought back added language to Rome into Latin.
A1 article:
https://www.thecollector.com/rome-trade-ancient-africa/

Couldn't remember some words , so went to google online translate page.
Found suddenly google is supplying a picture with translation below the language field pair.
New one to me.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Understanding Ancient Latin...

« on: 11/11/2024 11:40:11 »

Are they speaking Latin?

If you are talking Africa and Latin, a huge quantity of Africa was French colonial, and French , a common language as Arabic throughout Africa.

If you take an archeological look at the Latin in the French language, as you can see in the following video on vowels , vowel combinations spelling, contrasted to the consenants sets endings and prefixes,
French is composed of half Roman soldier and half barbarian ............................... WHERE IT WORKED TOGETHER !!! (alike it's people's appearance, it shows)!

There is an "uncanny similarity" there!

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Understanding Ancient Latin...

« on: 11/11/2024 08:11:21 »

What is the Most easiest language to Understand?

It would be any SVO "subject verb object" composition without declensions.
Apparently Russian that has declensions, also stacks onto it masculine feminine and neuter plus some "levels" of declensions, each level has singular and plural forms of each in the set having a "nominative (the basic noun word for what it is) , genitive , dative , accusative , instrumental  and prepositional" (adposition). Of these last six , a sentence marks the subject and object changing the ending of nominative noun.
However, many foreigners are informed to speak it SVO subject verb object.
I don't quite know enough words to sort through the layout composition at making a sentence in Russian but maybe in a year or two of building some "nominative" noun vocabulary and verbs.
And too, the number "one" "ahdin" (nominative number one) has male and female forms and "plural also" , a problem I found from and with "vsyeh"(all everything) and "vsyo" (a complete set , whole) both mainly by numeric concept.

Interestingly too, Russian has many words derived from Latin and Greek not dissimilar to English language, from time to time it's possible to take a good guess at what a sentence said when heard on radio or internet, but ultimately, if you learn it's alphabet, you can near read and understand some journal articles or sentences or read signs.
Only a few symbols in Russian have

But, insanely, I also started to learn Cantonese, and it is SVO subject verb object, only intonation will be it's trouble from a perspective of learning as an English language speaker.
You wouldn't thought that be on the easy list!
Of what I see as fact, I'll go as far to say out of line with my achievements , to learn Cantonese Chinese properly compared to learning Russian properly, Cantonese only presents a problem of its writing,  that is the only point making it more difficult than Portuguese and Spanish too.

The easiest language for an English language speaker to learn would be Portuguese or Spanish.
Buy a newspaper from a major newsagent shop of either and there are usually paragraphs and articles you will all except properly understand if you can read write English well!
The only reason you will not do well at the same trick with a newspaper in Russian is because you need to know the Russian alphabet well and some sets of consenants and vowel combinations for their phonetics sounds, but as good as Spanish or Portuguese if you do learn it.(easy enough , there are only around ten more symbols in Russian writing and the other symbols not English latin are easy enough, their names are all so mundanely simple you would thought it was an additive of the Soviets.
There are only a few letters in Russian you would feel has a name "tverdisznack" "mekisznack" "eekratka").
note, a language such as Arabic or Japanese or Korean , each symbol as too Chinese have a whole name!


And now to be extremely odd, Mandarin Chinese is not easy but not a huge problem.
A huge problem is Arabic, it has declensions and its own script and no relation to Latin or Greek or eastern languages , a whole world to itself.

Easiest to most difficult as I have chewed on them a piece like cheese...(just my opinion
 what it would be to learn it "literate" because of its difficulties)

-- Spanish , Portuguese

-- Italian

-- (English) , Malaysian , Indonesian
-- Cantonese , German

-- Mandarin , Russian Vietnamese

-- French , Japanese , Korean , Thai , Cambodian
***The problem with french is difficult to show

Now take a look at this and notice the consenants sounds for spelling as the vowel combinations are being demonstrated!!!

-- Punjab , Hindi

-- Arabic

And here is some English language starts at 4:05

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Lost Persian army of 40 thousand

« on: 09/11/2024 07:36:08 »

Being a bit naughty continuing this, but the other images explain something better not part of this post.

i cannot say the images im using arent as good as it gets (lousy!) , but before we "bed down under the diesel for the night" there is "a funny story about this".
One of the most common symbols etched or found as "massive stone block" is "a carved triangle" and sometimes near it a circle! On the Dendera light relief there are few symbols , but a circle and a triangle that would seem to be hieroglyphs are prominent at the top. It is interesting to note one of the other symbols resembles a bowl with something pouring out both sides. There really are around only four symbols can mean they are some attempt at writing on the Dendera light reliefs!
4.493384263922929,45.51679251848174 remains of massive stone triangle and circle.
To the east of this appears to be a massive dam 70m x 100m!  (see the pushed over angle view images)

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Lost Persian army of 40 thousand

« on: 02/11/2024 08:37:51 »

Found something disturbing on Google Earth imaging.

A complete army of 40 thousand Persian soldiers was supposed by Greek historian Herodotus to been destroyed by a sand Storm and disappeared on the way to attack the Ammonites of Siwa in egypt 524 BC.

To bury the Persian army of 40,000 would be "something like" 30 meters wide and 700 meters long!

This series of mounds or pits appear to go for more than two Kilometers.
These appear to cracked open and probably covered (sealed) by sandstorm, not by the people piled  the rocks!

In the following, the closest town of "Farafra" 47 Kilometers and a farming enterprise 28 Kilometers.
Anything else would be insane to bother to reach that area.

However, there are dug out pit "massive open cut" alike mining earth works occuring in it cutting through what appears to be Kilometers of ancient graves at least! (Perhaps the works are illegal grave robbers by method is what it seems).

Although there appears to be aka junk there over the 2km by 2km area, it would be a massively expensive and dangerous hike by vehicle simply to put any garbage there any time in history.

What makes this disturbing is that there are many shapes (unfortunately very indefinable for assurity) that are from masonry that is ancient. Note, the rocks(on the pit or mound)  though a little squarish are natural to the area and the wider region.

Google Earth or map coordinates for search bar. Look carefully it's one long trail through there.
The measurement legend bar should be showing 5m or around 18ft
Also, Google Earth has what it calls a "history bar" with notches to select the satellite image year.

NOW found an excellent example !!!!
Try to carry and leave this behind in the middle of nowhere and itself solid rock!
Hmmmmm .... just wanted one, too heavy ... best drop it... (Would require a crane to drop it !!!)
27.429845,27.629628
27.423406,27.623459
Also, this massive masonry statue piece is wearing a "square shape hat" !
There are plenty more of these around it in the area.
Trouble about Google so legend distance is difficult about its accuracy to ground size or distance at close range can be one third to twice the size.
Seems to be 30 meters by 15 meters and the area is loaded with these types of carvings into the stone.


Example of ground breaking open "pit"
27.4185415,27.6154785

Mound covered over by rocks with a vase shape protruding, the rocks are stacked, placed or thrown on it.
27.4165730,27.6246067

It is not inconceivable rubbish from nomads can got through the area over centuries and to this day, but there appears to be ancient masonry and other objects simply are not put on a truck or car or backpack to dump.
27.4138837,27.6255369

It would require severe checking of the area by many person whether there is rubbish mixed !

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When using Google Earth or Maps at close or maximum magnification, ALWAYS wait a minute for the image to completely unpack and be redrawn or it will be too hazy!

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ALL BELOW Not with this thread title,
if you are looking for Mediaeval Ajuran hydraulics, I don't know what this area does but looks to be an ancient installation, the resolution is too bad.
0.553322,42.660351
And nearby, doesn't have much water though the image is "good times" , but, as ever, you can still enjoy the beautiful sandfalls running through the jungle as you dehydrate!
0.551458,42.696337
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Somalia dams "possibly ancient"(probably!)
4.519386,45.513346
4.519105,45.512736    (these first two are not dams but elevated and appear to have faint signs of rubble with layout, it's probably the pin area is elevated and shows how deceptive it is to find dams  and canals accurately  without topographical or radar projection rebuild
4.588889,45.550129
4.593596,45.549652
And
4.505295,45.505118
4.506385,45.512478
Plenty more indications in surrounds of these low hills this was a purpose done by modification, just too vast without mediaeval Ajuran or a community! Subtle, except no economics would spend the money there.

The Dendara light ancient Egyptian relief (of it, there are two separate relief stones) was discovered in Upper kingdom temple beside the River (Hathor temple around 300 bc circa).
Both reliefs appeared to mean "irrigation" and the double snake relief version appeared to mean two rivers. (The two relief stones makes three Rivers, there is a third at the bottom of South Somalia), While most historians and studies research kingdoms, that is an unusual event of any stability anywhere, and much has been mentioned to indicate "city states" in empires histories and extremely logical to solve more remote arid areas requirements (and physical evidence seems to be where I think, a breach between low lying farmland and placed up on the next level or a mound hilltop set back away from absolute view (causes invaders only 180 degrees of attack if a sharp rise to higher plateau and tired them if it is the top of a hill, but they all need safe water near NB wild animals can smell water for miles!). The only other "known world" to the Egyptian Pharaoh's was just north of two Somalian main rivers , but there appears to been some real knowledge of them by the ancient Egyptians.
https://www.booksfact.com/images/technology/ancient_technology/light-bulb-ancient-egypt.jpg

The reason I search these is (searching for ancient irrigation in arid zones) because any culture is either within a few Kilometers of consistent accessible water, and there is evidence communities were there in ancient text that were not near any of the major rivers , inclusive South Sudan and South Ethiopia and more South.(or they mix the point of a river and a port on the coast).

Mon 4 Nov, great example of Somalia - columns, giant ornament , giant formed blocks (seem roman or greek)
4.505186,45.512548   Google Earth , use different close zoom maps. - ruin remnants through surrounding area 100m 's (probably well over 200 ton of well formed worked stone objects).
In a context of travel alike the 40,000 mentioned , An archaeologist once told me it is possible to almost go to any place in the past 6000 years from Egyptian records, it is simply locating the record and locating the coordinates correctly, but they traded with places regularly as we talk today far further off the map of places associated with Egypt, Nubia, Kush Punt as them all being as developed as Luxor or Alexandria!

Time to apply the cream. The Dendera light relief show Pharaoh holding out what is believed to be a Lotus stem in a pose alike he's taking a leak, meaning he may died of Kidney trouble, Lotus is both birth and death(rebirth to afterlife) , too Seth seems to be at the end of one of the version relief holding up two knives and probably means he wants "double shares" in the wealth, probably someone elses.
It seems to say three rivers has immense wealth and they cannot get their hands on it, it's troubling them.

For frankincense and myrrh , some irrigation may been needed to raise the sap yield, but at any rate it would be required in a hot dry low rainfall isolated area away from rivers and away from things such as Pharaoh or Seth to simply access.
I don't know what this is, but appears it is a dam 200m x 200m created by sloping to one side of a rise by digging with appears to be a right angle stone wall buried in the east corner,
4?31'05.1"N 45?30'49.1"E
4.518074483690995,45.51363886381292
a little below the coordinate tag.
There are also aka debris of a worked or formed shape nearby.
GOOGLE-EARTH-IMAGE-COLOR-BALANCED - CLOSE
OTHER AERIAL IMAGE - WIDE shows the three sides loaded with artefacts , and a ramp above the numbered pins
3rd image , Another ramp, "long  ramp" and artefacts further to right of area - it was much nicer than thought , when the Portuguese attacked the Ajuran at Mogadishu its easy to see why they failed if this area is Ajuran! They would need to be proper prepared invaders and probably had no knowledge of these small city state areas in arid isolation being so well supplied by internals as producers (bad mistake)!
And if this is an extremely worn giant monument 4.522141903130711,45.51259825347368 with a surrounding , then the Arjun or whoever were extremely healthy and little wonder the Portuguese were flogged the second time round when they were prepared !!
So...Hazard a guess, those are city walls not one bank end or side of a massive dam. However, there is plenty of evidence in the surrounding Kilometers there are totally deliberate dams evident.

A set of three dams beside(in proximately is a better description by stepping) each from the set of nearby ruins.
 4.521133,45.511842
It may been this one I meant (any are difficult and subtle)
4.520497,45.510705

Of ruins, further over the hill from these would be an archeologists delight !!!
A whole mediaeval town in ruins (unmistakable).
To the right of these coordinates at near full zoom.
4.526539,45.511019

The following is only a nice idea and is slowly becoming wrong, only because the center of these circular puddles in steps down the mounds have ruins in them often enough, However, it is peculiarly stupid to build in a giant puddle!! At some point they would be ruins quite soon , so no idea when they were built.
Too, generally for water storage i would say i could have it right , those are quite deep classic dam shape of square or round four side, and usually (oddly - but a secure place) at least one at the top of the hill, others around the hill side.

Thought of why the dams seem to be in hills or hillside and seems each of these circular puddle dams are proximate each other, "the circular ones are irrigation fields for flooding" after some water is soaked in the channel to the next lower one is reopened and drained down onto the next, each puddle soil surface is kept absolutely level surface (probably the main work easier to move soil to maintain an even level field surface) while the water is in the puddle field. That allows mass plant watering with few people!
Never mind your John Deere PTO pump or your stationary diesel pump for "broad acre farming"!
NB one of the first kings of the Persian Empire around 500 600 BC had a giant irrigated garden at his residence.
Harrapan were irrigators in the Indus valley , of that point, the Persian Empire at that time stretched to there, the reliefs of the Harrapan seals appear very Persian like , too the Dendera  relief.
I wonder if there are any Persian archives with their script.

i cannot say the images im using arent as good as it gets (lousy!) , but before we "bed down under the diesel for the night" there is "a funny story about this".
One of the most common symbols etched or found as "massive stone block" is "a carved triangle" and sometimes near it a circle! On the Dendera light relief there are few symbols , but a circle and a triangle that would seem to be hieroglyphs are prominent at the top. It is interesting to note one of the other symbols resembles a bowl with something pouring out both sides. There really are around only four symbols can mean they are some attempt at writing on the Dendera light reliefs!
4.493384263922929,45.51679251848174 remains of massive stone triangle and circle.
To the east of this appears to be a massive dam 70m x 100m!

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Hominid mating and hair, hair is a thought for archeologists

« on: 25/10/2024 04:01:14 »

Unfortunately though this is alike talking to myself this video of "hair" is much more an example.
When an apis queen bee flies on a mating run she does not use a straight line, she moves up and down  to spread scent as much to be noticed well by other primitive eyes of insect. That is analogous to longer hair on humans being rhythmically shaken.
If anything continuosly uses such a process it is female humans as in this video (something alike I tried to refind before) NB this one seems to be their favourite Chinese dish (is actually Korean).

The final point , it is scent based because losing all hair would have nowhere to carry scent, it would dry too quickly and be too concentrated over distance(wind) rather than dissipating wider over shorter distance to increase area range

Most four legged mammals solve that with a tail !
Curled into a ball in a confined space the scent will slowly add to the hair oil of the fur and slow  release when they move around.

Interestingly, I find the reason hair develops on the groin area of humans is for most "insects" are more the problem than tactile stimulation or scent.
Why it wouldn't exist on children is because of cleaning by parental nurture, not actually the development , it would be more difficult to clean and more disease danger to a child, while scent spreading of a child increases overall danger adding attraction danger that could bring in physical attack by being discovered(adverb).

Hair on a babies head is basically not present for most. Not a good idea for babies newborn because of hygiene, mum would be too tired and sore for a sufficient time in hot weather for rotting to start.

The most subtle, while female humans grow hair at puberty, they are capable of pregnancy often a year before that sufficiently grows to being considered an adult patch of hair on the groin.
You could suppose feeling that way and scent spreading are not a real requirement leaving tactile sensing feelers as the only reason to supply that type of hair (pubic) unlike head hair .
The issue of tactile defence (and mesh shield) to the groin area is ok for an adult that can clean itself responsibly not as a game copying. For small children hygiene is supplied by a parent continuosly in evolution over that lifespan sector until the hair exists on the groin is reasonably standard.
That now leaves children have head hair, but at least not for something alike a year immediate after being born.
However, most of the critical sensors need warning and protection and are located on in the head and rate as good as a  driverless car.

In the first video, the head and hair movement are choreography, but the next  video is more incidental.

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Geek Speak / Re: Complaint about Windows 11

« on: 24/10/2024 23:48:11 »

The best I see it you are not computer "savvy" !

Note: any good browser has a sub menu showing various character charsets to "force use" with the browser page data translator, too the browser settings can enforce only one font to use!
Overall, your collection of fonts should be coherent of both the charsets available and the symbols they must render!

So! Why hypertext markup in a science forum..."html entities" are what should be used!
The whole point of rendered markup crossing many charsets!
The number of symbols covered by "html entities" is immense!
It includes most scientific notations, and maths statistics symbols
It is the correct way to present public cross language scientific data.
Note: CSS and HTML multi lingual pages are recommended and almost always Unicode UTF-8 except catering for Chinese. Chinese is usually UTF-16
https://onedrive.live.com/?redeem=aHR0cHM6Ly8xZHJ2Lm1zL3UvYy85ODQxYjc3ZTYxODI0NDg0L0VVdXhmTG9DSFA5TXBONjJLdDhod0xFQjhRMDg0SE5GYzVLZXRRVWtDTVdEN0E&cid=9841B77E61824484&id=9841B77E61824484%21sba7cb14b1c024cffa4deb62adf21c0b1&parId=root&o=OneUp

You can type "control panel" into the file explorer window address bar , and also choose between the new view layout and the classic control panel layout.
The classic version will group pieces the way it did in 10 and before, so you should be able to plug and play or add hardware.
Too, if you have a new camera it may need drivers, so go to the manufacturers site and download the driver for the OS.
Too, the is a windows admin app in the start menu, however, W11 uses a system of popping a special search window it names "settings".
This difference is because lower level hardware controls of the OS are now conjoined into the modern bios replacement called UEFI.
UEFI of the machine that controls what we're bios settings are now the common base off all OS eliminating many setup setting  mistakes.

X32 software apps should be installed to the x32 program files folder for better recognition at app startup, not the "program files" folder.

Of character symbols "render", not the least of it.
Troubles start if the app requires "a specific" font, not merely it's symbol character.
Too, the document may been created under a specific charset such as UTF8 or UTF16 as a business admin network or multi lingual organisation, or as some of you may use, Windows 1252 or iso-1252.
Normal English "EN" language character set is based in ASCII otherwise known as Latin-1, however, many more characters are required and the usual nowadays is iso-8859-1 charset.
The software, the keyboard and the "app" charset setting must all be the same charset setting with the OS base language charset scripting(human language glyphs) , hence the rough guide "locale", the country and timezone.
That all correct, we can now look at rendering the symbols characters, and that requires a software app in the OS called a "font server".
While a charset has an official ISO standard name and alias names(well known less official), a font has its "name" and a "group name", group, being font type e.g. sans, times, bitstream.
The only real  specification type in its name is "normal" "bold" "italic" or default - undefined e.g. as mentioned before, by , only the group name!
So as you can guess, the font name must have the glyph symbol mapped to its bitmap image file to render a character.
( there is also the "data buffer" for the character sequences, with the window buffer for the screen (head) video display map *there is a piece of hardware can be added called a "head splitter" or signal generator splitter. You can use two screens as one after changing screen resolution to a custom size, or you can render multiple head units).

Of "browsers" that normally handle html pages and internetworking, HTML is a text and image "rendering" application from a specified format called hypertext markup language. Part of most applications is a set of alternates to mouse clicking using keys, apart W3C "accessibility standards", too, in html tagging there are tags and attributes to add page specific keys to operate actions of either custom idiosyncratic or standardised e.g. "tabbing" the focus of the cursor along to each page sub part. (The OS also has standardised "key' set functions).

Dependent your model of main board, a quantity of the keyboard (as should be connected/plugged to the main board at time of adjustment) can be set with the UEFI to have default actions for "Function" f-Number keys. The function keys and others can be enabled or disabled also.
More idiosyncratic actions can be set for keys and key press combination at the OS control panel level on the keyboard.

And what was continually forgotten to mention, the actual piece of keyboard hardware often corresponds a specific language, covering a limited set of ISO charsets. Too, if there is a driver program for it at the manufacturer site it is wise to download it and install it for specific functionality of the keys.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Is This Something To Do With Coal ?

« on: 22/05/2024 08:30:42 »

could be this
calcined petroleum coke



https://www.qfindustrial.com/low-sulfur-pet-cokecalcined-petroleum-coke-price-for-carbon-product/

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Need suggestions on cement / pop release agent .

« on: 22/05/2024 08:22:00 »

Some advertisements claim "fatty acid" so either margarine or vegetable oil spray from a supermarket.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Hominid mating and hair, hair is a thought for archeologists

« on: 08/05/2024 19:54:05 »

QUOTE: saying that people have hair on their heads for some scent-based reason?
YES (as plain as the "officer savage" police sketch from Not the Nine O'Clock News) but that i wonder may be more how humans lost the hair on their bodies (obviously there was some hair at least in the past 2 million years but in what quantity to lose), possibly continual shaving every other feature on their bodies to be able to not require to roll in the grass to wipe off such attacks. The only trouble is that as an evolutionary point is more likely inbreeding alike the silver fox experiment result (selective) as how they lost the hair from the body and other limbs , and possibly better at not picking up disease to have as little hair as possible (perhaps through history of prehistoric populations everything that had body hair died from bad hygiene).
Head hair would be as heavy a problem could possibly be to keep (upkeep).

I find the method of AKA "baiting by running something caught belonging to the secure area into the danger zone with seminal smell in the hair a credible method because the smell and substance cannot be easily cleaned off, It is a reasonable simple intelligent thought that does not require ethics under its terms of use" for females in a more secure situation by such a method being extremely credible for the past 2 million years of brain development and as simple and as far as anything needing ethic no more than the cowboys in "blazing saddles" had any credible ethic.
Part of what inspired this is i found a video online of (as usual) very beautiful show girl cheerleader doing something girls all do "but is extremely rare to see and rarer to see on camera".
She had beautiful long hair and had her chin tucked down onto her chest with her hair curled around from behind to into her hand and her nose pushed into her hand and hair sniffing her hair.'
I've have seen countless girls do this but i have no great data or reason they do , just that it is scent in their hair.
Because in 57 years i have seen it from just about any girls of any age of any type kind or social level it is obviously a genuine characteristic of them!

For most for half a million years people have basically only had hair on their heads, everything else is for purpose bare skin covering the body.
Meaning, the head hair is the only "sufficient quantity" of absorbent like or carrier of glue like fluid that cannot be rubbed (cleaned) off almost immediately.
e.g. A hypothesis such as any of the non adult children would be perfect for its advertising stunt half a million years previous because it would not be able to remove semen from the hair by scratching , is much more likely to run inside to its other family members to help that would gather to find what the problem and noise was.
It would not be an action of hitting the mark, more an action of being sure the (suppose AKA) junk mail is not able to be scraped off and sufficient to set up a huge smell as soon as the carrier gets into the dwelling space.

Plenty of creatures use scent distributed on objects, but that only works if the recipient gets within range.
In this system the recipient is bombarded with the information as heavily as commercial television!

Because homo sapiens brain can quantify well statistically , which do you think is the better chance as its brain would half a million years back, on a tree they may not get near for days? or a sure bet by catching "someone handlable" and unloading it into the hair whether direct self gratuity or from a recent store of the stuff?

Too, who's about to prosecute him? the NSW Police? , the AFP? , the FBI? Scotland yards lot? , it is half a million to 6000 years previous.
Personally i think it was probably civilisation and precise vocal language that allowed a male to live with the females because the problem would likely cause his death 10,000 years ago and previous that for numerous reasons such as food share and other males requirements for females particularly , with the point of engineering weapons comes a subtlety of not requiring to face a stronger male as much as being when he's awake, he doesn't have eyes in the back of his head!

Aug 2024 - added this
Don't you find it ODD! humans only have hair on two regions , the head and the genitalia , particularly women do not have "much" body hair and generally considered no facial hair!
Although many ancient books do mention men having long hair , essentially their physical movements are not "elastic" and quite rigid , however female muscular movement and limb joint movement is quite flexible.
So when tossing their hair (females) ,it is not dissimilar to a queen bee on a mating flight to spread scent.
These cheerleaders i noticed do have some videos that show they "to effect ! also dance their hair in the rythm" , i could not find that one but its effect is their from time to time.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Hominid mating and hair, hair is a thought for archeologists

« on: 07/05/2024 12:10:55 »

I was being fed the usual attempts by the youtube feed recently to tempt me at something to watch and then it would hook the advertising to my chosen view of interest when....
One video caught my eye!
After (as probably many men did within youtube ethic policy) leaving a comment, i had had a fascinating thought because of a mild joke i wrote in the comment, the thought truly expanded or extrapolated to some real merit.

The video is of a young woman stretching doing yoga.
Just remember, the following quote actually contains something unusual but real if you know anything on the subject so is required !

I'll construct the argument point to you after the initial information.
The joke is by effect about the "accuracy of where and how to put the stuff"

I...I..I....Just don't know what to say!
However, vocalization is evolution 2 million years old in Hominid species, but in hominids , complex organisms and more primitive it has no estimation of what to do that is not spoken and is existent so far back in evolutionary time it is considered it is simply so efficient and effective that it works perfectly !!!!
Oddly such a prehistoric old evolved inbuilt developed brain operated accurate action occurs successfully is amazing because there is plenty of evidence much of its result continues to find its way into scalp hair to present era day !!!

Here is the other piece of the thought

So, now onto the point of all this.

Somehow, meaning is lost it seems to many people looking at ancient culture and primitive unrecorded archeological evidence.
Note that i mentioned vocalization in a context of defined language speech vs. grunting and difficulty controlling sound regularly for communication.
To mate, noise is one point, my brother often collected grasshoppers for mitochondrial DNA testing and would find them by the noise of the males gathered in a group rubbing their hind legs together on spines they have on their legs.
But, as you well know "mammals" often use scent (smell) to find a mate that is ready.

Now here is where the feature of efficiency at committing reproduction activity gets interesting.
Because hominid females basically for millions of years will have had a menstrual cycle as all mammals too, it is understandable to a male (probably with experience) some are ready to mate and others are not ready!

However, some aspects of safety and law do not cohere well to use from the past 6000 or so years law has been existent.
That being how females protect themselves from attack, and from anything, e.g. other females or males.
From the prehistoric perspective, how males protect themselves from males or dangerous females.
One point for sure is a male approaching looking for females in prehistoria does not want to put his head inside a confined living space if he does not know the result or be too near to a dwelling or he will potentially invoke attack.
Too he may not feel it a good idea to commit sexual entry of children he's caught , not because of ethics beyond damage or their taking enough fright to invoke outright attack from the mother and others bonded to the hominid pack.
If he commits sexual action on a female by leaving semen inside her if he "catches one" , the main bulk of smell will be covered by female smell when she reenters her dwelling.

In short, anywhere except the scalp hair the male semen smell can be removed or smell blocked.
To safely remove (bait) interested females if there are no males there in the dwelling, the scalp hair of one of the dwellers would be a genuinely successful action at luring any females inside a dwelling and holds to the idea of "self-promoted proliferation"

That is the structure of the prehistoric mating problem and a sensible answer to a more successful idea that does not require a particularly high IQ to think of using the hair of some person(non descript) whom will go back to the dwelling
BUT, it is well known to this day that in modern humans as shown by arrest of deviants that use of smell as a powerful tool continues use in modern humans, but also anyhow many creatures use scent spreading for such purpose!

I have never heard of archaeologists whom study primitive sites without civilisation structure searching for semen in corpse hair of what would be all ages of person when they died.

Added note:
One of the main problems i get from either history books on ancient culture or more the appraisal of reason of what had occurred that was recorded, is most historians or archaeologists seem to assume that because a modern human of now has an evolutionary history of around half a million years as the same creature entirely in evolution that there is no difference to modern thinking and ethical standard compared to half a million years or as little as 6000 years.

Quite frankly, all that would occur if a male went wandering half a million years previous as many would, if it had survived to adulthood to mate (that's a vague point what adulthood would be if you use biological truth) it would rate continually finding ways to get to females and bicker against other males, but at some point it does become a problem when traversing more remote areas , to survive there is no way by sensibility he'd put his head into a dark or secluded living or hiding space by what little wisdom from surviving thus far.

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Geek Speak / Re: What IT person did this nonsense and what can I do about it?

« on: 07/05/2024 11:24:52 »

Use someones' account to message the "email server administrator".
That is actually what you should do in such situations,
second talk to your boss and the server administrator holding the particular software you use to find a solution to jamming and clogging bottle-necking blockage.
It's a direct server admin problem (to solve), you do not ever solve such problems yourself, almost no multi person organization ever allows operation or manipulation of server machine and server software by a user !!!!
you are a user and simply delete anything under the pretext everything will be ok.