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Thread #75641   Message #1331676
Posted By: Peace
18-Nov-04 - 07:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 'Open-minded' Find Atlantis
Subject: RE: BS: The 'Open-minded' Find Atlantis
BillD: I am not. Never have. I don't expect that Atlantis will reveal that sort of thing. However, I am not blinded to simpler things: The use of fire as a technology--the area burns doen by Native North Americans who used fire to create wooded areas and open fields, thus making their hunting easier because different game moved into the edges of new forest thus created. I don't knock that as a technology. Everything that constitutes technology doesn't have to hold megabytes of info or go faster than sound. Maybe there will be a jar containing a map of the heavens proving that our far-back ancestors were able to see the night sky and recognize that the Earth went around the sun, not vice versa. I do not expect discoveries about faster than light vehicles. Maybe just discoveries that shed the view that we are the smartest of the smartest, when in reality, there ain't all that much new after all.