Anonymous ID: 7b7773 April 25, 2021, 7:44 p.m. No.13514105   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4220 >>4504 >>4647

Hellish second wave 'tsunami' ripping India apart

 

https://www.9news.com.au/world/coronavirus-india-how-second-wave-exploded-in-worlds-second-most-populated-country/d2104784-dad5-4a9e-bac3-efab73660c76

 

More than 132 million Indians have received at least one dose, according to the government. The fear now is that supplies are running low. The US is believed to be readying supplies to send to India, a key ally in the region. India's goal of vaccinating 300 million people by the middle of the year looks ambitious.

 

#WatchTheWater

#MultipleMeanings

Anonymous ID: 7b7773 April 25, 2021, 8:06 p.m. No.13514224   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4263

Archaeologists Find Oldest Home in Human History, Dating to 2 Million Years Ago

 

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-archaeologists-find-oldest-home-in-human-history-2m-years-old-1.9745372

 

Archaeologists have found the oldest home in hominin history. Unsurprisingly, it is a cave: Wonderwerk Cave in the Kalahari Desert. Astonishingly, it has been occupied more or less continuously for two million years. Through most of that time, modern humans didn’t even exist.

 

The archaeologists have also demonstrated the earliest-ever use of fire, a million years ago, and of symbolic thinking half a million years ago in Wonderwerk Cave, report Ron Shaar, Ari Matmon, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Yael Ebert and Michael Chazan in Quaternary Science Reviews.

 

Among the signs of advanced cognitive ability, the archaeologists believe they have found indications that ocher may have been used there 500,000 to 300,000 years ago – hundreds of thousands of years earlier than thought.

 

Two million years ago, our ancestors were still small-brained but were definitely bipedal. We don’t know when our ancestors left the trees and began to stride the Earth upright, but we seem to have begun to trade arborealism for bipedalism during our australopithecine phase. That began about 4 million years ago. The point at which we discovered the virtues of shelter is even murkier.

 

Wonderwerk isn't one of the caves supporting the idea that our Middle Stone Age ancestors were obsessed with the sea, as shown at other sites clustered on South Africa's coast. It's inland, near the town Danielskuil in the chalky rocks of the Kuruman Hills and over 700 kilometers (435 miles) from the nearest beach.

 

Horwitz points out that the thinking in archaeological circles had been that in the Middle Stone Age, the interior was arid and hominins clung to the coasts. But Wonderwerk clearly shows human activity in the cave 240,000 years ago, showing that the interior wasn’t that dry.

 

In 2008, archaeologists Prof. Michael Chazan of the University of Toronto and Horwitz reported it as the earliest evidence of cave-dwelling hominins. At the time, they thought all this dated to some 2 million years; others thought that nonsense. Now the dating has been validated.

 

At the time, they deduced that the oldest stone tools had been made and deposited in the cave by the hominins, as opposed to being washed in by flooding. That opinion has not changed, Shaar tells Haaretz.

 

Who actually lived there? There were multiple hominids in southern Africa at the time. Chazan and the team in 2008 surmised that the most likely tool-maker was Homo habilis.

 

For about half the two million years the cave was in use, it seems its occupants were warming themselves and/or possibly even barbecuing.

 

They may not have had control of fire in the sense that they knew how to ignite it but a million years ago, they were certainly using it. Burned bones, burned stones, burned soil and ash have been found 30 meters in from the cave mouth – which was probably at least 40 meters back when, Chazan explains to Haaretz. (The cave mouth would have eroded in all this time.) That's too deep inside the cave to have been caused by a wildfire, he explains.

 

The postulation is that they may have “harvested” fire, taking advantage of naturally caused bushfires, taking a burning twig back to the cave, and that sort of thing.

Anonymous ID: 7b7773 April 25, 2021, 8:25 p.m. No.13514314   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4332

>>13514263

 

Does living in a house or use of fire fall into the category of "Cultural Appropriation" because it came from Africa?

 

Theft of Fire - https://medium.com/myths/theft-of-fire-2c15f70a1356

 

Whether or not they understood why it made sense, native peoples of the Americas reflected in their mythologies and beliefs the concept of a world which existed before humans. Contrast that to all nearly “Western” cultures, where Man, or gods in the form of Man, are responsible for all Man-things, and you see two very different ways of conceptualizing “pre-human” (pre-homo-sapien) history.

One way sees Man as being present very near to the aboslute beginning, and being, himself, the explanation for all Man-things — if not directly, than through his Man-god. The Man-form, be it god or human, is the creator of the very cosmos and everything within it.

The other sees Man as being the beneficary and inheritor of an ancient wisdom which existed before him and which could not come from him. Man is part of the whole — no more important to the Universe than a blade of grass, and less participatory in its manifestation than nearly all other things.

“Theft of Fire” stories tell us more than you think, which is why I started with one. They immediately identify whether the culture behind the story is one which perceives itself as a god, or one which perceives itself as a part of god.

Anonymous ID: 7b7773 April 25, 2021, 8:53 p.m. No.13514430   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Russia puts U.S. on list of 'unfriendly countries'

 

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-04-26/Russia-puts-U-S-on-list-of-unfriendly-countries–ZLO9SbbIek/index.html

 

Russia has put the U.S. on its list of "unfriendly" states, Russian news agency TASS reported on Monday, quoting Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

 

The move comes amid an escalating diplomatic row between Russia and several European countries.

 

On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law to limit the number of local staff working at foreign diplomatic missions and other agencies, and ordered the government to draw up a list of "unfriendly" states that will be subject to the restrictions.

 

"The whole story began with another wave of unfriendly U.S. steps," TASS quoted Zakharova as saying on Monday.

 

"Naturally, the U.S. is on this list," she added.

Anonymous ID: 7b7773 April 25, 2021, 9:24 p.m. No.13514575   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4581

>>13514551

Spongebob: Gary the Snail is an Alien God (Gary: Part 3) [Theory] (this actually makes sense KEK)

 

https://iritem.info/cd/spongebob-gary-the-snail-is-an-alien-god-gary-part-3-theory/p9R7erapl4San2w.html