An amazing Easter Island picture

[DCal430]

Also the knowledge of the round earth was lost to the white man during the dark ages when christianity took over and since was taught to be the devils tool. The earth was flat, the stars and sky were part of the heavens. No round planet, no nothing.

 

[nageov3t]

Also the knowledge of the round earth was lost to the white man during the dark ages when christianity took over and since was taught to be the devils tool. The earth was flat, the stars and sky were part of the heavens. No round planet, no nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth

 

[Schadenfroh]

Also the knowledge of the round earth was lost to the white man during the dark ages

As loki8481 stated above, all of the monks / scholars during the middle ages knew that the earth was round. You probably could have went out into the boondocks and found some uneducated peasants at the time that believed it was flat. But, you could probably find some in rural Red China or the tribal regions of South America that believe it is flat today.

when christianity took over and since was taught to be the devils tool

The massive political upheaval that was the decline of The Western Roman Empire, 1/3 of the population falling to the plague and many, many barbarian invasions will decimate scientific progress regardless of the beliefs of the inhabitants. In many places, the only places relatively safe from the storm were the monasteries. Monasteries did not just teach Sunday School, they also taught people how to read, write, perform arithmetic, classical sciences (mostly Roman / Greek scientific beliefs), etc.

Science, mathematics and Christianity flourished in The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) throughout the Dark Ages, until their Western cousins invaded them and later the Turks finished them off.

 

[Perknose]

Why did they excavate it?

To see the naughty bits.

And if the statue was sporting what, in archaeological terms, is called a "stoner."

 

[Bateluer]

It was in the Hume thread..

I posted it.

Don't be so quick to criticize, there's many an ancient structure that baffle even the most learned among us. It is said that even today we could not replicate the great pyramid. It is also amazing to see things that are built today, such as buildings able to sway, were actually built thousands of years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVGDPUhln74

Bunk. We could build even bigger than the Great Pyramid today, if we wanted to invest the resources and money. The environmental impact study alone would be brutal though.

 

[Paperdoc]

If you want details of how the ancient people of Eater Island cut the stone heads from rock faces, then transported them to seaside sites and erected them (complete with red stone "hats"!), read the book "Aku Aku" by Norwegian archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl. He and his team at Rapa Nui deduced a lot about the processes and lifestyles of the ancient people of Easter Island. His tale of how they hid in tiny caves from invaders brought out the claustrophobia in me! Another of his books, "The Kon-Tiki Expedition", tells the story of building a raft on the coast of South America in Peru and sailing it across the Pacific Ocean westwards to south-east Asian islands. That huge adventure was his way of proving his theory that such a feat could be done and could explain apparent puzzles in the migrations of ancient people. Heyerdahl and his co-workers believed in DOING what they thought must have happened centuries ago, to prove that it can be done.

 

[Perknose]

Heyerdahl and his co-workers believed in DOING what they thought must have happened centuries ago, to prove that it can be done.

That's exactly why I go to the supermarket in a loin cloth while carrying a crudely shaped club! :awe:

 

[Soundmanred]

That's exactly why I go to the supermarket in a loin cloth while carrying a crudely shaped club! :awe:

Don't pop a stoner in a loin cloth.

 

[Perknose]

Don't pop a stoner in a loin cloth.

I hang out in the (re)produce aisle, looking for nice ripe melons and a big fresh clam.

 

[Perknose]

Don't pop a stoner in a loin cloth.

I hang out in the (re)produce aisle, looking for nice ripe melons and a big fresh clam.

 

[Perknose]

Don't pop a stoner in a loin cloth.

I hang out in the (re)produce aisle, looking for nice ripe melons and a big fresh clam.

 

[Perknose]

Don't pop a stoner in a loin cloth.

I hang out in the (re)produce aisle, looking for nice ripe melons and a big fresh clam.

 

[Perknose]

Don't pop a stoner in a loin cloth.

I hang out in the (re)produce aisle, looking for nice ripe melons and a big fresh clam.

 

[Printer Bandit]

quintuple post!!!

 

[lxskllr]

Aliens as in extraterrestrial beings or as in illegal aliens?

Mexicans. They're good with masonry.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Not sure if this is a repost, but when I saw this my jaw dropped. To think that those people were able to move such massive stones so many years ago is mind-blowing. I even think this would be a bit difficult with the tech we have nowadays.

It's not that difficult when that's your day to day job for your entire life and everyone in your world is working towards that same goal. Why do people fail to realize this about ancient peoples and their structures?

Austronesian culture has always impressed me. The ancestors of people of easter island started off in china and in a few thousand years had been to Africa, South America, and had established residence in Oceana, New Zealand, South East Asia, and Africa. Over a 1000 years before Columbus was born these people were trading with the natives of South America. While the white man thought the world was flat and never ventured to far from land, these people were crossing the pacific and indian oceans.

And yet the people of Easter Island were dumb enough to cut down all the trees to put up these worthless statues and in doing so destroy any ability for the island to sustain their population.

Don't be so quick to criticize, there's many an ancient structure that baffle even the most learned among us. It is said that even today we could not replicate the great pyramid. It is also amazing to see things that are built today, such as buildings able to sway, were actually built thousands of years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVGDPUhln74

Again, with unlimited manpower and literally nothing else better to do, is it really that baffling?

It's not that we can't do it today, its more that there isn't a point to do so.

Again, we're not baffled, we just don't care. If all we had to do day in and day for the entirety of our life time was to figure out how to build ridiculously large structures with little to no practical purpose, combined with our modern knowledge and technology, we could do so with ease, and in doing so create structures that shit all over the ancients'