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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 / 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 / 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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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Can we use trees to find ancient town and city sites in Somalia?

« on: 04/08/2022 07:34:16 »

With GoogleEarth looking into one of the least developed countries' wilderness of Somalia and being aware much of what would be lost to time discarded as ancient towns and cities would be Islamic medieval buildings and streets.
I find that one of the easiest possibilities is the "right angle" to pick on for taking a look.
However, Arabic cities have been known to be a sprawl as many African and Egyptian cities or towns mapping plan are.
Too, many modern (year 1900 and onward) Somali farming yards can be deceptive as many of these are rebuilt again and again nearby or intersecting over the old position , of some of these are perfect circles while for most the standard design is a rectangle of one end is wider than the other by 50 to 100 yards. These yards they make from 10's of thousands of upright tree branches.
NOW, when looking on one image from google earth i found the appearance of "sprawl" like an ancient town or city, but the interesting fact is it is heavily emphasized by "trees" as an outline.
Also, these trees often are healthier (hazard a guess mud bricks?) than surrounding areas hundreds of meters away where the lines of the trees appear to follow the natural split slots in underground stone formation of the landscape where nutrients and rooting is easier to occur.
This point from time to time has led me to question some of the unique vastly lone incidence of "right angle" sets of trees in places where nothing else shows any signs of not being natural.
In the attachments are pictures that show the differences over the same location by the tree growth and farming
on one particular site.

Link: Town plan picture of Kukawa in Nigeria 1851 for comparison
https://historum.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F6%2F69%2FMittelholzer-niamey.jpg&hash=2680c7c5372bdf0d15b802cd43f5e52b
Of one way or another i have seen layouts alike Kukawa as sets of shapes in no mans land in Somalia wilderness also not different to the Gearth (history button) image.

Google earth coords approximately 150 yards by Gearth measure ruler from this marker "below" and a around 50 yards to right (It's also not clear to me if the area off to the left is an ancient mini mega-lake water source)
Latitude:   3°18'38.18"N
Longitude:  45°23'6.93"E
Interesting problem, 40 yards from the marker to SW is a square area with a circular area on one corner, while Islamic mosque has a tower, the ancient Nubian/Egyptian style had a building alike of probably the dimensions. What i thought was modern Somali farming stick fence, is grown bushes on some kind of outline alike paving stone blocking growth.
Some similarity to top left of following picture at its base
http://solarey.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ancient-somalia-00.jpg
ref: http://solarey.net/ancient-land-punt-pyramidal-structures-found-somalia/

Attached are some pictures

Possible "hewn" solid rock cairns.... the area around the water catchment is loaded with these more as normal constructs.
5°28'33.87"N,44° 5'41.10"E

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Physiology & Medicine / ADHD or severe Stress?

« on: 09/07/2021 14:11:13 »

Interesting video, appears genuinely to be more like stress, and shows a general "tendency to avoid eye contact".
Also a small  quantity of nervous undertone alike neurosis a piece dormant in its feelings.
....I Don't trust ADHD as the correct diagnosis !

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / How do Saharan desert snakes and frogs breath under the sand?

« on: 14/06/2020 07:32:54 »

I've been looking at prehistoric mega lakes and the Sahara desert recently. In it a set of creatures i learned of i remembered have some unanswered questions.
Sidewinder snakes, a particular Geko it eats and also ants, apart grasss.

The problem, in the video and many about Saharan Sidewinders it stated that it needs no water and gets it all from it prey, however, in a desert there is no water and much of the action takes place on sand dunes not any oasis , neither is there any considerable grass.
1. the only place water could be found by smell would be below the desert sand, but that would be quite deep for pooling of it to not evaporate.
2. A geko would need considerably more water than a snake (not clear if a frog is a reptile - i don't particularly use those naming trees).

The best i could figure is that water is trapped deep down under the desert sand in rock formations but breathing would be difficult for either a frog or a snake that far from evaporative heat so how would they manage to dive  under the sand to get water?

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Geek Speak / Anyone used NASA WorldWind SDK?

« on: 13/06/2020 16:05:25 »

Java is having its 25th birthday now in 2020, I just sifted through Oracle's site and found a list of the best notable apps ever written in Java and found NASA has a API for representing satellite data on the globe including topography translation . Wondering if anyone there has used it.
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/demos/#anchor

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Could biblical flood have been caused by tides?

« on: 11/06/2020 13:30:56 »

Since both oceanology and geology here , I had thought about Noah's flood.
Tide relates moon and recently we have a temporary moon.
Could a massive temporary moon caused Noah's phabled flood.

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The Environment / Chems to fumigate pests from feral beehives without harming the bees

« on: 04/04/2016 03:09:40 »

Over the years i have found many feral beehives,but one type of them stands out.
A feral beehive made in "Breeze blocks"( http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/581858/8128318/1281788396863/breeze_block.gif?token=KnVrwcNSK2xr3omDFGsuNVRTSiE%3D ) in walls or between double brick walls that are totally inaccessible.

These concrete blocks are used for walls mainly and are a favorite of feral bees because of warmth stored in stone and often in walls not uncovered structures because heat can easily become too immense(a point hard to get through beekeepers heads about hive temperature).

The trouble is over time , insect pests that prey on beehives or also bring disease can easily build up and breed protected as much as the bees are protected by non accessible.
Also, disease is untreatible and undetectable.

Bees don;t mean much except to people whom are allergic, so many feral hives remain in roofs and in walls but the problem here is breeze blocks or double brick walls

Alike the recent MACS formic acid treatment for Varroa that is fumigation strips, are there any chemicals and tools for fumigating the insect pests that harm beehives (usually wax moth and hive beetle but also various types of ants) but does not harm bees? (mainly referring to the difficulty of the structure of breeze-block walls)
The problem with breeze block walls is they are layered out alike bricks to make walls but the internal space is particularly partition to spray mist movement, too such problems exist for double brick walls.

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / What plant matter, when it decomposes, will attract bees?

« on: 15/11/2015 10:12:45 »

Plant matter type for decomposition to attract bees - is what i believe apart to humidity, how bees find water.
Or...How do i build a quagmire of swamp in a small Chinese takeaway container that will smell but not produce disease from rotting and not be too oily although Eucalyptus trees in Australia would form some of the vegetable matter(leaves, stems, grass blade, root nodes, legume... which? ) base-container(for the vegetable matter to slowly rot in) that will catch water from a dripper and overflow level holes to prevent drowning.
added later (I read this and it also helped): "Plants trick honeybees with caffeine" http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/science-news/news/1000804/
(i'll just add this too about the article...) Of caffeine in pollen and plants! bees often suddenly drop from walls or from the air and "it appears to be tiredness", because they simply sit at risk where they land and after quarter of an hour if nothing reaches them in a deadly way they are obviously alive but tiredness appears to be the incapacitation(and more than likely is) , so too when they drop from the air or vertical surface into water !

This(next line) is a list of trees in NSW that are common forage, finally though, what will break-down safely as a swamp?
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/117487/honey-pollen-flora-for-planting-nsw.pdf

But there is a detail of problem here in helping bees locate water that they will need near their hive (as beekeeper registration government rules).
One article podcast thedoc had was about plant methane , another was of insects and their reaction to methane.

So take a look at this picture of below mud under my swarm trap that did at least keep some bees this swarm season (south hemisphere), but dwindled away because of the fact these are hardened ferals that do not apparently climb into anything below 40 Litres(scientific determined research).
Just today before i wrote this i corrected the size and put the hive near the feral hive entrance, it now has two full-deep super bodies.

HOW to, help them sense water in a harsh environment at least 10 meters away from the hive dispersed around the area as "drippers"?
WHAT type of plant material is best to put into a tray for water to drip onto and decay to release methane and smell(not falsely attracting to plant type for flower) alike a swamp?... a favorite of bees and other insects just as in the picture next is showing.
http://windsolarhybridaustralia.x10.mx/beehiveSwarmTrapwaterswamp.jpg


The drip system will use medical drips of around 10 drops per mil around 1 - 5 drops a second , but will have a refitted 10Kg head reservoir of water.
(I found 2 liters of water drains in less than 6 hours with a tiny pin hole system , so i need to buy proper medical drips and modify the orifice to build proper drip lobes and size)

The "dripping" tray system will be my design - it requires to drain after a particular level of water to prevent the bees from drowning(if it ever reaches that - probably only overnight usually or if less used).
Bee drowning claims hundreds of bees if a water feeder tray-frame ( division board feeder https://berkshirefarmsapiary.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/102_1457.jpg ) is used inside a hive.


UPDATE

Here is a picture of the bees flying around over the semi permanent rotten water(mostly from rain - rarely from the tap ever!)
during swarming on November 20th 2015 (It was over 42 degrees Celsius that day and there were thousands of Australian sting-less bees sitting in shade among trees down in the grass).
The video is much more appreciable of this point because it shows the bees flying much better!!!

http://www.windsolarhybridaustralia.x10.mx/beeswarmandwaterquagmire.jpg


This video is HD of the bees flying over the muddy water.  youtube.com/watch?v=vD3rhJxW-MU

The swarm and wild hive entrance above to right of the muddy water.
http://www.windsolarhybridaustralia.x10.mx/feralbeeswarmwallabovetorightofwater.jpg


"FOO WAS HERE"
http://www.windsolarhybridaustralia.x10.mx/foowashere.jpg

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Why is chocolate bad for dogs (& cats &...)?

« on: 10/02/2014 21:47:05 »

Thread split off from "Dog greetings" - Moderator.

WARNING! chocolate kills dogs and it does not require much!!!
It is an unpleasant death and even if they do survive it, it is not dissimilar to surviving "distemper", severely brain damaged alike a stroke victim!!!

If you own a dog, beware of your children if they have any chocolate, don't have any if you don't have children !!!

Note: White chocolate kills too it simply takes more of it.

This guy was around 80cm tall to the hip at 5 1/2 months, he was around the size and weight of a full grown heeler when i got him at 3 months.
In the video i require to get all his over-energy out of his system for a few minutes when i get back from being away or he'd simply flatten me full stop!!!
Greeting:

"Avi" may he rest in piece , whom died from a mishap of me not getting sleep for around 3 days and had nothing could be done for him because he was simply too big and unhandleable(basically too dangerous) by anyone else, a sort of freak mishap.

Another note: keeping a dog in Australia is immensely difficult because the laws now are immensely strict and costly, recently these idiots (such as the RSPCA whom care for dogs feelings but do not credibly understand animals as in a context more like animal keeping law not even veterinary) have now started on work dog breeds regardless of them being herding or hunting(is a professional pest control action on farms).
The method by which animals are impounded and the obligatory result from it is killing off grand champion and pure breeds inclusively.

"Brunhilda" at 4 1/2 months:
Greeting:

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Grey wolf - the true domestic dog?

« on: 09/04/2013 06:06:38 »

(A note about this post and my accuracy about ...
first hominids are effectively 2.5 million years previous for first of the species ,
and extreme similar stretch to 7 million years previous
article with timeline - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/sep/21/internationalnews
"paragraph" Worlds earliest tools? - http://factsanddetails.com/world.php?itemid=1486&catid=56 )

Forward summation: From a person whom has handled dogs and wolves(i have kept wolves but i am a computer programmer), being a pure scientist(whom studies wolves with a BSc) by isolated intricate abstract observational perspective of training subject only does not help when the information may be relying on an inter operative working cognition of a set of compulsory mechanisms , "Flight theory" ( see abc.net.au video article "Dog Brain" about impossible to solve test ) about dogs and wolves relating their separation to domestic dogs is actually quite bunkum and arbitrary finally when considering any carnivorous predator. Predators have as endemic, a drive in them to experiment and approach danger with caution and inclusive if required to attack for survival with much disregard to their personal safety a bit similar to value of a coin flip or 50/50 bet.
Whichever way you wish to see it at the camp site position 300,000 years previous has little relevance to the great benefit of common foodstuff and hunting and continual proximity because of that main piece of survival. Many creatures have some aggression as herbivores but can be startled easily though many times human or canine size. Truthfully , canine size is probably optimum for foodstuff ration size as a share , other creatures such as large cats or smaller predators would be outside logistical range at being useful.

Many collected points by science appear to collaborate two totally mechanically different creatures using the same foodstuff.

There are 24 hours in a day, Why would a wild animal stay around hominids,what benefit apart the (grammatical pun removed) obvious hunting?

It appears very likely in my mind that any relationship between wolves and humans as an inexorable binding for survival was not propagated and not occurred after brain development evolution had occurred to near present capacity in humans , but more likely to have occurred toward the very beginning of Hominids e.g. Australopithecus (3 million years previous).

The old saying is, "no brain no pain" when referring to thugs , people often accused of having an undeveloped brain and underdeveloped perception harnessing, this being much more an effective reason for it being possible to view meet and co-observe at close range another species, and by benefit of each other wolves and humans but in this case a wolf that is not quite significant as a wolf but "perhaps a pack animal in terms of evolved instinct" at the stage of first hominids.

Food and carcass size being a logical meeting place and the bounty it provides. This action of hunting "particular creatures" being played out time and time again over eons the same as a cracked record till boredom overtook us and we began to speak is the thought from the hunting perspective of provocation of brain evolution in embedding better logistical thinking and signal queueing cooperativeness needed before complex speech ever developed.
A propagator would be leaved over food from large carcasses. Wolves have a problem at any point in history of their evolution to present day when attempting to kill large prey. They can obtain and bring down large prey but have no veterinary or medical skills at dispatch and often is leaved to stress upon their prey to kill it. Hominids such as Australopithecus, well at least the next Hominids evolved, used stones to strike the forehead of large animals to immobilise them as a method of hunting, where hominid speed failed,was assisted quickly by hominid killing ability, the point where wolves can fail as much as losing an animal that has been brought down.

Again , Loyalty is an interesting trait to develop of i believe has much more relation to nurture and more relevent to females(mothers) than males and in terms of meeting between the species, of females, place being water supply for lactation and smell protection, and if observed cooperation or cooperation became successful, then nurture could as much be a shared(between bothspecies) activity, as much the guarding instincts develop from protection of young.

Comparitively to hunting, the nurture thought, keeping wolves as early hominids by females may be as true.
If that was what occurred (Q: How do you separate the women from the puppies in the world??? A: with a crow-bar) , it would vastly outweigh not bothering with them(makes them useful by proximity causing the benefit and propagating the cooperation) at any moment(making the 1 million year version "Grey Wolf" a living metaphorical human made stone tool apart domestic dogs(i dub old favorites) ).

However , a precursor cracked record system for eons could be a hypothetical situation of a group of wolves and hominids moving through the terrain "as a group" at the very moment they are about to start to chase some large prey, at a distance other hominids come into view and start to signal/gesture "something". Gesturing to these new distant group of hominids about the activity indicates the large difficult prey. So rather than gesture a hominid from the distant group runs forward and gestures at the wolf and clonks it head in killing it. Then a hominid from the group of both wolves and hominids clinks in the head of the hominid whom killed the wolf.
And so it goes on like a cracked record for Aeons.
It is difficult to speculate the value of "flight instinct protectiveness" in either species at the early beginning of hominids stage, logically though, wolves probably had more flight but "nothing much" because they were a predator and were probably a pack animal by that stage of evolution but there brain remained somewhat much less developed at that stage (3 million years previous).

Does any of this seem familiar somewhere, hmmm, mistaken identity value?, mistaken personal property?

Science as it reverse engineers nature appears to be uncovering a trail of possibilities of human development not being purely alone in its propagation through the past generations of hominids.
Canis Familiaris is said to have come to existence around 300,000 years previous, around the same the period of Homo Sapien.
Grey Wolves appear to be the oldest unchanged species of canine at having their last appreciable change of species 1 million years previous and in the same timeline is Homo Sapien coming to being 500,000-300,000 years previous.

In questioning the rise to being of domestic dogs, it is probably no underestimation to think their construction is composed of more selective local breeding from a tight family genetic group of the animal and it were humans regulating that retention and use of only a small isolated set.
The main point here is humans may be unwittingly being modified by coexistence with another species, humans (Important Note: unwittingly both are having a profound effect on either - and this is only "the tip of the iceberg" so to speak).

While it is appropriate to understand any canine as a carnivore and a hunter and that such an action was probably played out anywhere in the world in any environment with the two species side by side deliberately cooperating, after the meal, what then and is there any evidence to suggest other draws to coexistance and survival.

To start for this last point, a draw to coexistence cooperation and survival as a species pair not two species proximate solving territorial coexistence, warmth of their fur may not be a particularly good point because of the indication stone tools yielded as being for skinningneither their teeth as those are dangerous and considered by many pre H.Sapien to be useful as a tool e.g. leather needling pin or notch groove scratcher perhaps in some instances a skin knife.

So now we have an animal with flesh on it and carries its own knife and fork suitable for human use to eat it.

Yet somehow, the indication is humans and wolves could easily have evolved side by side "starting" somewhere inside Australopithicus era near 3 million years previous to present.
Again, Wolves of any actual modern form start at 4 million years previous to present and are considered as undeveloped in brain structure for thinking and cooperation as Australopithicus of whom is the first Hominid to construct tools by modifications made by designing using forethought.

The main indication this could occur is the encephalization quotiant(brain size related to body mass ration) relating the timeline measurement of the development of both the human brain and wolves brains match with quite similar harmony over the 3 million years to present and show a small number of species changes (Edwardii) each yielding a higher developed brain.

As before, that is effectively a strong primary drive to hunt and good enticement to cooperation interspecies inclusive the meal table on the floor and its left overs and scraps, but for an animal to develop communal rank systems and cooperative mechanisms remains a little suspicious that a bit of food for a few hours a day propagated and evolved anything more than a dependant of which domestic dogs fit much better. However, dependants are much more parasitic and can be likened to communal but eventually cost too much to keep, thus scavenging for scraps may be welcome but not an actual producer.

A theory comes to being, guarding, where territoriality can be developed into the brain in more complex terms with inter species loyalty in terms of possessional and belonging but until it serves both species purpose the animal itself is as good as the next meal.
Guarding is a type of inverted version of the set of principles of hunting. Rather than rove to find a target you trap the target.

Sooo, an interesting fact, Dingo mums and many other mammals during lactation require water and can be found near water.
http://www.anthro4n6.net/lucy/ ...."During the Pliocene Epoch (between 5 and 2 MaBP), this area was dominated by lakes (Zihlman 2000) and woodlands. It is along the edge of these now-dried lakes among the former woodlands that fossils can be located (Shreeve 1996)."....
So too may have been the breeding raising and nurture activity of females of both species because of where lucy was found. It's not as though it isn't sensible to suply water for lactation and growth of offspring.
In later times, sea shoreline appears to be another favourite of the human but for most, food, as much washing for females, whom again often do there advertising using the medium more than internet at any time in evolution.

One of the serious uses for canines in modern life is feeled to be using it as an instructional learning tool for children to learn empathy for the care and coexistence with another living being, e.g. feeding, washing, grooming.

Not only are there problems with compatible use and diet, there is also a final herdle, the context of cooperation and learning through inter species activities.

Dogs appear to look for help from their human associate, Wolves are a stubborn independant minded creature whom require a different approach to learning more similar to a soldier in control, but it is ordered and structured and communalised.
"Dog Brain" http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3154393.htm
The interesting feature of wolves is cooperation queues, not direct subordinative learning as a domestic dog.

One effect upon wolves by hominids could be the "Alpharism and rank system" of their pack operation, for two distinct reasons, 1. the sexual dimorphism of the early hominid species of the female being much smaller than the male makes equality and the kitchen knife defence theory an extremely unuseful psychological reaction for survival of the human species, of alpharism and rank symbolism etiquette are a much more safe solution when indicating relation group safety in place of voting and vocalisation (Of which we can all forget Kim Jong Un and i'll build a temple to me to test this theory) 2. Alpharism (in group psychology) itself appears to be endemic to human communalisation.
The human is the more likely to cause the effect or enhance the propagation of alpharism in the wolves because their section of the cooperation is generally their variable ability to handle environment conditions by modification with forethought and high levels of intricate dexterity, in short the idea here is hominids including Australopithecus survive naturally by making modifications with their manual/personal ripping, breaking, and handling dexterity as a completely natural inbuilt designed action(akin to modern present day real estate developers).
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What some of this is, the copy cat structure of communalisation in wolves and the pack rank sexism that maybe started to develop 2 million years previous watching and participating with hominids, of it, mirrors humans situation of having rank and reverence in H. Heidelbergensis developed into the brain shown by archeological evidence and encephalisation quotiant in which the sexual dimorphism of the species was one in which the female is not likely to win any points at that stage of commanding rank because of the simplicities involved in bickering rank as wolves often do of wolves do resemble metaphorically a line-up in order of whos who during eating the kill. These Alpharised line-ups have an interesting "equivalent" behavior in Malamutes Huskies(Canadian Familiaris) and Dholes(South east Asian wild dog). Dholes tend to help each other communaly , Huskies insist everything to the last piece of food and pats are the same quantity among all of them(Husky trade union rules).

A final piece of the possible evolutionary evidence, i believe is seriously overlooked.
It's called "Vocalisation" something only thought to be possible in species before our present species and possibly starting to develop in wolves.
Most animals do have strange noises and various , but those are always specific and do not attempt to be refined by the animal to communicate and much less with humans. It often occurs that some pet owners will tell you there dog has a sound it makes apart the normal varied range a dog makes e.g. barking, whimpering, yipping e.t.c.
One internet dog made international obscurities news with actually how to imitate its owners words(cannot find it for now), none of this is a surprise as the following video links will show. Many people including myself have memories and kept dogs that attempt to imitate human speech if not also attempt to learn communication.

The following says if any truth from the study of hominids and truth from the genetic tracking of the branch of Canis Familiaris at 300,000 years previous , then, wolves have been side by side to humans in cooperation for probably 1.5million to 2million years at least.

The next two video links(for SOUND) are my pup Brunhilda whom was stolen(Nov 1 2012) and later i found she was put up for adoption by private dog pound, she was 3/4 cattle dog(contains 10% Dingo) and 1/4 sheep dog(points her paw inward when eyeing so is probably a Border Collie). She had serious levels of speech copying imitational noises and the normal dingo throat that emulates not barks(although she does bark properly(note) as her most common noise, but it's called "emulation").

The next are for parity support collected from the internet

Conclusion, what is recognised with canines as "domestic" is a misnomer relating the context of "compatible useful species with inexorable binding of human development and lifestyle".

It is only the past 6000 years canines have had any real reason to be excluded from the evolution of humans by their effect, and is only caused by geographically physically stablised human communities and "their operational laws e.g. tax, property rights, allowances of owning e.t.c.".
Canis Familiaris not a true substitute to automatic learning and cooperation for survival, it is a left over deterioration of old favourites?
Canis lupus would be the correct set of emotional baggage and social learning queues triggers for human development and growth by inter species cooperation by lifestyle with wolves or at worst with wolves kept in the social interspecies group(group: vague or non descript - leaved to whatever situation of lifestyle that is e.g. pack of farm work dogs)?

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Technology / solar,wind,hybrid,hydro what about a snow turbine?

« on: 29/06/2012 12:38:34 »

No snow turbine, but something alike it!
pre-requisite information: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/roofs-collapsing-under-heavy-s/45019

Raw Video: Snow Causes Metrodome Roof Collapse

But what if it rains or snows??? It's not how Hollywoods audio specialists would have you believe, In strong heavy rain there is not much wind, neither in snowing!

Recently i did some research about solar power because my relatives complained about the rising cost of electricity and the fact they don't like to service remote properties on the edge of town because they do too much to get too little remuneration as an electricity company.
Recently also the government has been offering rebates for people supplementing their electricity with special solar hook-up packages.

I found the packages are not particularly useful until they are 5Kw production (overnight-1day battery bank, fridge , freezer and either the washer or stove top). I also began investigating the alternatives to solar, such as the hybrid generator systems of combination solar - wind with battery banks.

Then i thought of Hydro! Then i thought of snow too!

No, no dam in the backyard, simply a large machinery shed roof with a rain down-pipe and no trees near it. Maybe, but it will need to be a large roof.
That would take care of energy production in heavy rain and no light and a swamped wind generator in a hybrid system.

Snow Turbine
But snow is the real problem.
Remembering i'm the type of 5 year old that takes heirloom 12 jewel gold watches and pulls them apart to see how they operate, it appears there could be a chance in using the initial spring power transmission drive system clocks have as gearing and applying that gradual process to snow on a roof because in some places of the world not only does it rain heavily, it also always snows heavily.

This system would be to set a giant rectangular pan over a roof on a frame and pivot.
While the snow is filling the pan it is becoming heavier and the pan starts to tilt on the pivot. Using the gearing process that harnesses clockwork power to spin the gears in a clock, this will be used to spin the generator while it snows and there is no light or wind.
When the pan tilts enough it will lose the snow and reload into position with a spring and/or counter weight on a pulley.
While there is snow weight there will be generation of electricity.
To start one of these safely because of the gearing ration requires a flywheel for centrifugal force storage and a slip/grab friction clutch(or a wet clutch system) engaged by governor weights.
to keep the speed of the generator constant an impeller brake alike an automatic vehicle transmission can be used as a braking device with a static set of blades on one side in it.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / What is causing this...

« on: 14/06/2012 07:14:55 »

15 Km west of Thirlmere NSW.(google earth - also found in Somalia) go down to 50Meter altitude "Satellite".
What is causing the sharp right angle on the plateau edges , for most they appear worn by rain and wind as normal or fallen away in earth tremors with their volcanic formation crack as a normal shape.
But located near them are also ramp type sequences from the plateau top down the sides where you would suppose the same right angle shapes (30 meter long rectangle around 10 meter wide).(just as non descript).
Some of them appear modified to be straighter for lack of better description.

EDITED: Also there is in the vicinity, a quadrant to semi-circular circular edge of stone , a shape rarely ever occurring but i have seen that in rare occasion from google maps  satellite pics of Somalia and once a little alike this and Somalia in Western Australia coast.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Has any of the Harappan alphabet been deciphered?

« on: 06/06/2012 14:51:27 »

Has any of the Harappan alphabet been deciphered?
Silly question really!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803185836.htm

However, if you know your IT and you checked out SSL certificates and hacking theory of cryptography, there is a list of considered time and computer power it takes to crack a certificate of 40 or 56 or 128 or 256 bits.
Why not exclude modern language nouns and their concepts and keep aside a large number of blank nouns for primitive objects and try to work inside a more restricted quantity of valid names and symbols used, alike reserving space in C by calloc() for typedef structs and chunks.

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Just Chat! / Previous we heard "Vietnam", this time "African states" but is anyone listening?

« on: 26/01/2012 17:07:28 »

Kenya and many other African nations are importing PRC Chinese workers and getting loans from China? If Vietnam is anything to go by the old rhetoric of reds under the beds and the commies will commit a domino effect on each country will be back.
The trouble is though , What the heck did they think they'd achieve originally in Vietnam , i know about the gulf of Tonkin incidents and the US airbase in vietnam(it was attacked by NLF A.K.A the Viet Cong) , that i believe was mishandled as too was the misnomer of attack upon the USA about the airbase which around amounted to attack on South Vietnam.
While it is all very well to simply state who's been attacked and who an allie is with regard to offense, the final conclusion of vietnam and even cambodia was failure to contain the trouble and in the cases of Laos and Cambodia commited complete inflamation to wars that did not previously exist.
What do think will start and conclude in Africa?  ..."shame again sham?"...
note: another interesting feature of the statistics of deaths in Vietnam of US servicemen is the rationale is 1:1 KIA to accident-method-non-hostile.(have i gone nuts???)

ARTICLE I WROTE ABOUT VIETNAM because of a documentary i found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fa1U2z9GTr8
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Page: http://www.nicephotog-jsp.net/videoflash.html
Ever been asked how the Vietnam war(also known as "the Second Indo-Chinese war") bigun or how the west became involved? You couldn't honestly accurately answer could you! This is a video i found of has the peculiar property of explaining the vietnam war and its origination much better than any other documantary i have ever found. Interestingly it is because it mentions a number of parts of the problem and that it started much sooner, the late 1940's , than any US argument and intervention, almost the same era as the Korean war(actually partially previous to the Korean War) and had more than one set of political origin factions influencing it to erupt, indeed too when the USA was finally involved(around 1964 - 65), vietnam itself was "nothing of the national and political factions the origins were" on both sides. At its absolute roots, it started as a revolt against the colonial French governemnt of Vietnam , a group that became known as the Vietmin(named after their leader Ho Chi Minh).
Vietnams greatest distortion in the eyes of the world and history, is, (and most ironically) the very being of its painted over as a war of political economic governance morality involving the anti to capitalism as an aggressor when in its final bounds of involved containment (geographic or concept) is summed, it was a "to and fro of wins driven internal civil war(understated but for simplification)".

So much so i give it a name itself as the "Big Nothing" (achieved nothing sensible through massive and excessive utilisation of valuable resource) only because "a set of nations arbitrary of force and political creed by relevence to the vietnamese people and their conflict" as industrial and technological giants committed such massive devastation upon Vietnam, the war spilled past nominally valid geographical border areas with the immense force and ferocity ensued inside the valid boundary called Vietnam. It started with the Vietnamese people and it ended with the vietnamese people by decisive result and relevence to have achieved any solution at any time, it was a "civil war" as indicated and explained by the statement post to this paragraph.

The ultimate fueling of the Vietmin and Vietnam war (whether the theory of the "domino effect on Asian countries to communism" holds any rational truth) is not merely "poverty with no economic planning ability or means of successful change with economic progress" of an almost total peasant quantity of national population, it is the real effect of internal government and jurisdictional authorities corruption (whether being deliberate or by incompetence) has upon economics and management with as much the dictatorial style rule that makes economics a futility in such countries.

For the purpose, two stories apply that can be found in the tell tale headings of documentaries about the vietnam war are, "How we lost the Vietnam war" and "How we won the Vietnam war". It's totally dependant how you percieve loss or gain, whether final enforcement of creed on a people is successful or whether you believe the action made a difference in the status of your own.
Ironically neither is attested a truth from war anyhow as the most common belief is "no-one wins a war" but to put it in statistics and successes perhaps that phrase is true(hmmmmm)butthatsanotherpointanyhowandithinkitsbetterhereijustgoontoanotherpoint. This necst is an obscure point no-one would see too easily, i believe many do not realise or ever realise.Its greatest problem to approach its concept as an ethical action of war, is parity to the first world and second world wars,ethic, of "the war to end all wars". It finalises as unfortunate that unlike the expanse of Europe , Russia , the middle east and Africa and half of East Asia geographically in total(and aptly called the world) on the second world war was fought , the Vietnam war killed within twice the length of period of the second world war, and geographically in size inside maybe as little as 1/100th or less the area the second world war was fought inside, killed almost as many people as the second world war killed in/as the total numeric. There is no great need to totalise by numerics when comparing the Vietnam war to the Second world war, simply know they are near enough the same number killed in total, So in a psuedo effect, the second world war occurred again almost instantly in the twentieth century.

Of president Nixon and his li'l Riechs pervasen into Cambodia and Laos that was not known of in American public until four years after it had been occurring on a regular basis, that had a plus and a minus in helping finnishing the Vietnam war. The plus for the United States was the people realised they couldn't trust their government, though at least it was right to have done so(simply it was right more in military resource and action terms). That ironically required ignoring the unimportant and physically useles north-south DMZ line concept and treating it no differently to the viet-cong by crossing east-west into Laos and Cambodia to fight or bomb the Viet-cong. The minus in it was the immense toll on life it took to successfully physically attack a difficult to locate enemy that thus required means of WOMD's(Weapons of mass destruction) style destruction weapons. However, It also seriously disturbed and destroyed the neighbouring countries political security in which those became internally civil war stricken or prone to periods of turmoil, particularly Cambodia that became Kampuchea under Lon Nol and the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot and because of the quick succession of governing groups and consequent coups deteriorated internally not dissimilarly the way South Vietnam deteriorated after the early US Vietnam war era succession of coups in Saigon.
Eventually it was felt the war had become a sizable quagmire in which more relevent information was given to the American public by media and official report that assisted in showing the goal of securing South Vietnam or re-uniting north and south as a success for the south was further away than it ever had and more than anything it was the Vietnamese , Cambodian and Laotions problem for them to decide anyhow. It vaguely shows as metaphorically taking ten years to realise it kicked the hornets nest not moved it carefully, by waring into another cultures exact living space, in and by which it probably would have done better to do so much more piously and megalemanially from onset as an exacting aggressor rather than acclaimed assistant allied intermediary that uses force.(note: OK so that's a bit of a heavy one to comprehend, so skip it if you need to argue based on feelings, it really is just a machine added subtracted statement by judgement of attritional values).
Unfortunately the tally killed of the civil war in Cambodia / Kampuchea may as be added to the total of the Vietnam war, and thus the date upon which it finally ended being when Kampuchea finally subsided to peace many years later, certainly openly known is that after the Americans withdrawl from Vietnam some Cambodian factions were being assisted economically by the USA as much in likeness to South Vietnam when it first gained cooperative ties with the United States, or to put it succinctly in a metaphorical perspective , there could easily have been a build up of United States military presence in Cambodia after 1972 resulting in direct conscription of people in the USA to do a year long tour of duty in Cambodia as grunts(never supposed or suggested in any historic documentation about USA involvement in Cambodia after 1972 , However, around all it lacked finally!!! Cambodia/Kampuchea had most of anything the South Vietnamese had as assistance from the USA , advisors, weapons, equipment, aircraft , helicopters , specialist support personnel and financing).

The actual decider in battle and military superiority for the Americans of the Vietnam war is a little bizzare. It wasn't better tactics and infantry equipment as per se' , it was a specific addition to their set of support equipment..
Many believe it was the "UH-1 huey" and its post adaption the "Huey Cobra", but those can easily be replaced for their combat effect by the "A-4 skyraider" and even the "WW2/Korean-war Corsair" for gunship effectiveness, However, to truly show its effect requires to know that as any utility vehicle it has its problems in other situations that deem it unable when a platoon is outnumbered 400 to 1 as is(?***footnote) the alike for the ARVN incursion into Cambodia in which over 60 US UH-1 pilots were killed and 700 UH-1 vehicles were lost.
So too can the lessons for the Cold War be replaced between "bombing Haiphong and Hanoi" as to the "NLF - NVA attacks on Khe San". It is clear that the ARVN folded after the USA leaved Vietnam "finally". Understanding how to attack technology cost the NLF - NVA many people at Khe San, understanding the cost to commit the demoralising factor of attacking Haiphong and Hanoi(apart the physical resource logistic) possibly extends the cold war by a decade or two by Soviet technology perfection comparisson against B-52's with the Soviet Vietnam Veterans, but more subtly a mistake of enemy-ising(direct threat) the North Vietnamese as directly intending aggressors rather than civil war politics witheld inside Indo China being committed by peasants. Those two are a parrallel level of loss and the pinnacle points of eithers' very enaction in that war, by either (remembering the context of the initial attacks in the North Vietmnamese gulf on the US warship, and on the US Airbase in South Vietnam were "jurisdictional territorial dispute(..."territorial pissings"...)" not actual pro-conquest invasive ..."on to take washington D.C."... that brought the USA into the Vietnam war).

The decider was the "B-52 bomber". Often people are not aware in the vietnam war history that it was a support bomber alike they think of a "Huey Gunship(called a 'Hog')" or "A-4" or a "Huey Cobra"-Attack Helicopter. The UH-1 itself if it made a difference saving lives was a "medivac" as "dust off" not as as weapons platform technology though it certainly is a more convenient carraige and delivery of such weapons equipment, a B-52 could obliterate ..."three football fields"... of jungle(known as 'carpet bombing') with High explosive "as effectively as an F-111 for accuracy". Had anything less been it, the USA and allied success would have been a much more horrific story, until Macarthur get us all with ..."around twenty A bombs would cure it"...

So, as i implied initially about the documentary video, it is one of the best to see how subtle and complex the reasons were that obscured sensibility or facts required to successfully or safely handle some international incidents. (note: The Gulf war and the islamic world are a completely different ideology and have no relation to Vietnams' styles and reasons of politics, there is no relevence for the Gulf War here). Vietnam often baffles people to why and how it occurred and is too complex to simply tell in one sentence or simply.

?***footnote: quoted(below paragraph) from URL http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/b/b361.htm
(note: Operation Lam Son 719 is an incursion is into Laos NOT Cambodia)..."Losses were heavy in Lam Son 719. The ARVN lost almost 50% of their force. U.S. aviation units lost 168 helicopters; another 618 were damaged. Fifty-five aircrewmen were killed, 178 wounded, and 34 missing in action in the entire operation, lasting until April 6, 1971."...
Note the above quote is similar to the other i placed in but my extract comes from a documentary about 1970's Cambodia(on youtube or LiveLeak) so may have been a media research info blooper.
I'll leave my text as either(the true one or the false one) is quite awful and quite similar regardless anyhow. Final note, over 2000 USA Helicopter pilots were KIA in the Vietnam war(USA Military statistics), most US Military statistics list these as "crashes" , also in Vietnam war US Military statistics terminolgy are data headings "intentional homocide" and "unintentional homicide" ,and, US Vietnam war expendature sector data headings are listed as "a balnk cheque for the president".
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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Can scientists establish with accuracy the sex of an early hominid by the skull

« on: 03/01/2012 11:34:04 »

What would be difference between an early Homonid skull of a male or a female apart its size?
A half grown male(being the same height as a full grown female) may even have softer characteristics in an Australopithecine apart be an easier target because of the few other people available also.
I'm of the opinion that transgender may mot have been the result of pure satanic influence, but in some persons, the result of evolution potentially because of the lack of value of recognition of the opposite sex in an archaic world because facial features and size of the person played a role in evelutionary adaption to some level of value to evolving.

It's presumed that standard traits of psychology of male and female exist in early mammal hominids, but in animals that live now such like is not always the aggressive result presumed either(rare). Again in brain refinements of morality, it is not considered over the 4 million year period that there was much in terms of reverence built into brain function until 500 thousand - 1 million years back with H. Heidelbergensis.

A minor number of the trannies / tgirls / ladyboys can be found on the internetnet porn(note a point: statistically most are able to have been a commando or brick-layer or spokesperson/collector for the BLF(Builders Labourers Federation) , around 1/20 may have a good set of skull increments) sites are a testemant to their skull being incrementally and of morphise for positions of articles of "H. Sapiens, as a female not a male", ear position on the skull , no brow on the forehead , more rear skull set lower behind , front of face from side on view vertical not swept back under the nose, softer transitions. These viewed are full grown adult males that compared to the skull points of many small boys of even 5 years are softer than normal males in skull morphise.

Technically it is considered all of them are either psychologically strange or outright homosexual, of the preceding thought i've written here is a thought  calculable of that even having some oriency to being such as "a more obvious male that isn't female" for their brains operation.

Another horrible point is the distortion churches and particular cult nationalisms have as their definitive creed obscures and probably killed out any such natural versions of what these could be.

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New Theories / The one thing , through all pre history!?

« on: 22/02/2011 09:53:05 »

note: I will attempt to clean this article of its grammer and concept flows to a more definite coherent proposal. This will take probably some weeks.
note(added 13/03/2011): though in many texts Miocene wolves and early Pliestocene wolves are referred to as "pack animals" with the insinuative context of being an "instinctively higher level intellectually cooperative animal"(above simply gathering to their own species in some type of family and trust), there is no foundation to that, in fact here with fossil encephalization measurement the picture is quite the opposite, and a more independantly motivated individualised less internal species cooperative creature.

Evolution of Brain function by Hominid Canid interspecies cooperation in pre history
note: The origin forum is private (requires login to ever see the article and requires at least a sensible and amicable attitude in the forum to "pig dogging"), I simply thought it was interesting because of my theory of wolves evolution and human evolution and canine domestication and co-evolution hinted at in some peoples research papers.
Upon finding one of the posters, was talking about animal liberations attack on pig dogging in the private forum with a quote of their material i summated that there may even be a credible and plausable scientific argument against animal liberations attack on the sport(note(metaphorical context): unfortunately to understand some of that sport in Australia , understand that legally classified vermin animals are around a fair point to dispose of with a shovel accross their head as a legal method if they are within reach because of the vast problem they are)that may make the activity totally unique against cruelty accusation and allowed internationally legally greater level of symapthy in causing victim animal stress(context: prey - almost exclusively,if not,is exclusively a vermin here in Australia) aside to any other hunters-animal(canines context) and activity of hunting(canines and humans by interspecies cooperation).

Correction in "PIECE 2" of Canis Lupus and 500,000 years context:...Should be "Modern Grey Wolf"(Canis Lupus Lupus) at 0.3 million years is its finalisation. For most purpose Extinct wolves such as Canis Etruscus and Canis Edwardii are the primate assistors that are evolving and considerable(hypothetically but not accurately-proven) the forebears to the modern grey wolves.

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About the below article

"Human canid co-evolution" is a theory that these two species affected each and other for millions of years and have a binding effect in the resultant Homo Sapien species and resultant modern canines with particular reference to Canis Familiaris(The Domestic dog).
However, what is felt to be understood of evolution is it takes a significantly longer period the 500,000 years to properly accentuate change in both behavior or morphise of a creature so the little time Domestic dogs are said to be calculated genetically as having occurred is a little unreal to apply evolutional principles to for effect upon Humankind.

The article from animal liberation proposes that pig dogging or hunting and dispatching a prey creature is only a self gratuitous action that has no relevence to humanity or animal handling inclusive "invasive species" vermin such as wild pigs , Foxes , wild goats and rabbits e.t.c. , and is also only cruelty.

The co-evolution theory i have put forward is to the effect that humans and canids together by interspecies cooperation of hunting prey is not merely normal but was fastened well before(possibly started as far back as the Australopithicus that made tools) Homo Sapiens hunters and before the later rank reverent aristocratic stereotypes hunting activities with domesticated canines and that it is effectively a cooperatively(or mutually) caused embedded piece of human and wild canids(particularly wolves and their predecessors) psychology that requires the two to have developed some of the higher level interspecies cooperational abilities they have by them being evolved as rank hierarchy , cooperation and learning and reverence morality.

There appears significant evidence that "both humans and Canids through ancient archeological time to present have always shown excessive encephalization growth development compared to any other carnivore species". A theory of evolution on encephalization changes is the brain adds neuropathways and networks for creature operation if it requires more processing and memory, however as always it requires millions of years to finalise.
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SECTION 1 - SEE OTHER POSTS BELOW
SECTION 2 - THE ANIMAL LIBERATION ARTICLE DISTRIBUTION QUOTE

I wrote this for a pig dogging forum i go to because if its the one thing that god nor nature cares happens, they can choose anything else they like but not Canid Humans hunting prey!

If one thing gets me it's the ignorance and mis-comprehension of humankind, but particularly Animal Liberation about humans as anything more than part of the green environment itself as a sum of the whole. What it is separates man from apes is the very fact they are a carnivore alike canines(a hyper-carnivore). God himself in any thought of a being is not a mistaken novice at creation or evelution , it's the human judges.
Apart giant cats(felines) , through time humans have always as far back as pre-history not just history(6000 years previous 4000 years BC) have either burial insinuations of/with canids, not just written record in Cuneiform or Proto-cuneiform. The earliest is Bau (or Baba) 2000BC a Godess "of healing" - ...QUOTE: at the goddess's cult city "Isin", archaeologists found bronze plaques scratched with images of dogs, a statue of a kneeling figure embracing a dog, and a number of small clay dogs, one of which was inscribed with a prayer to the goddess (Fuhr 1977: 136). Protective figurines of dogs were often deposited in the foundations of buildings; one bore the injunction: "Don't stop to think-- Bite!" (Black and Green 2003: 70)....END QUOTE
It is little wonder that hunting using man as master and nurture of canids for hunting has existed without it being considered to be an act of the "the gods" or upper echilon society, but as a standard normal action of ordinary individuals that acknowledge and revere canids either in gods name or the respect of their monarch as a holy sign of loyalty or even a challenge to their monarch of loyalty to god(what or whichever that represents).
The Ancient Romans had the phable of "Romulus" the founder of the city of Rome that was nurtured by "Canis Lupus" wolves in a cave where the city of Rome became. The Ancient Egyptians had two separate Dog gods "Wepwewat" as a manifestation of Isis and "Anubus" his son. In Egypt the god Anubus was worshiped in two places, his main cult city half way to Numibia in "Cynopolis Superior" in the middle of the Nile river, and in the middle south-west nile Delta in "Cynopolis Inferior", later the greek god of the dead took over in early A.D. when the Greeks controlled Egypt. When Cynopolis was dug up, there were so many sacrifice mummies of puppies that the people and government had excess specimens of them pulverised and sold internationally as part of(additive to) fertilser.
The Roman Empire itself had a city called "the city of Wolves" in which wolves themselves were holy and allowed to roam free through the streets.

Because of the inexorable link in the past 6000 years before history itself could be recorded, and as proven by the Aborigines of Australia with Dingoes, it cannot be that anyone can deny the activity, or state it as, disrespectful or inhumane or cruel in God to use a dog "Canis Familiaris" or wolf "Canis Lupus" by being a human bonded master as part of a family unit with a canine or canines to hunt and kill using the canines to commit that upon the prey.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Identifying rudimentary shapes from satellite

« on: 30/07/2009 08:08:03 »

I was taking a look in google earth at what archeology sites were like at points where the ground had not been disturbed and reached. At various points in various countries but admittedly at either 300ft or 100M on the scale legend in Google-Earth it does not allow closer evaluation and is only worth continuing to look over small areas if there are consistent shapes and terrain matches.
E.G. a Harrapan Indus city in India being unearthed shows at 100M it is effectively possible to see into the soil and short grass the pattern of walls and buildings.

But older communities such as settlements and lone building areas are interesting to suspect e.g. Somalia with the worlds biggest stone age "brick" as seen from space approx. 40M x 40M x 40M and other odditties of formation.

The shape of stones with right anglular tendency in the region is often(common), but these are littered excessively and it should be seen where the "place" isn't(remoteness).
I think i'd get bored there too , and also scratch my head and wonder why i did that also.

Heres a Thailand hill and some .kmz places (ZIP 2Mbyte) for google earth with respective photo JPEGs from google earth(Somalia and Thailand).
There is plenty more suspicious activity from bc in Somalia in various forms around 10 - 20 Km apart but that best left for discussion. These appear that something may have at least modified them if they could not move them in Somalia.
Of the Thai area , it appears it may have been modified into the rock also , not a complete attempt particularly to commit removal/move.
Do these classify as making any sense as something?
http://www.nicephotog-jsp.net/Thailand-remnant-300ft-100M-somal-quarry.zip



Somalia:


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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Can "organised communal survival behavior of an animal group" be predicted by de

« on: 03/07/2009 07:58:01 »

Can "organised communal survival behavior of an animal group" be predicted by dental "mechanism" charting and geometric skull measurement?
Archeologically or present(e.g. overlooked)

Someone asked when did we start living in family groups?
After which i answered with a salvo off a rack compared to others.
That contained a quantity relating wolves and Rabbits communal behavior.

One interesting feature of that thread was someone answered,
its "a hereditry brain function" that causes it.

My answer was based on behavioral psychology of the various requirements that
are gained in nature from instinct to adjoin learning ability and communication
capacity for survival
.
Having some small knowledge of wolves and rabbits, the proposition is that these
may be higher animals in brain function than e.g. Felidae(cats) because of their
lesser physical ability and hence a greater need for cooperation.
This last feature(lesser physical ability and hence a greater need for cooperation)
appears to have manifest in their behavioral survival psychology and instinct of which
traits in these animals skulls and dental charts show their differences much to the effect
that cats may not exhibit a great need for intellect and higher developed communal behavior
for survival.

If you look at snakes behavior, they are dangerous to each and other and do not appear to
build any complex signalling.
Again though, spiders have giant communal nests alike bees and wasps and have signals.

Is there anything that can be picked on to predict that from e.g. fossilised skulls.

overview
http://arts.anu.edu.au/grovco/BIAN3011%202%20-%20placentals.ppt

Lagomorpha (rabbits)
are unlike rodents because in the upper jaw they have a second smaller pair of incisors.
rodents only have a single pair.



(RABBITS DENTAL CHART)
http://www.petsmile.org/documents/chart_lapis.pdf

(DOGS and CAT DENTAL CHART)
http://www.avdc.org/dental-charts.pdf

(DOG ONLY)
http://books.google.com/books?id=RS_ZTMP611QC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=dogs+teeth+dental+chart+picture+figure&source=bl&ots=s2mJWPg7B3&sig=1W59IiOJkZGG0NA_RNrWBDYMdtA&hl=en&ei=y6JNSra-FZKyswOHss2uBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3