Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@victor-meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nepia they got sweet potato back from South America, so it wouldn't surprise me if they made it to icebergs and back!
There's a big program under way somewhere to track back human origins/migration using DNA. Read they have traced Polynesian DNA to the Asian mainland about 10,000 years ago and some native Sth American (pre-European) DNA has been found in Hawaii and Easter Island which may support the idea they reached Sth America.
Amazing navigators and explorers.
Just visiting the museum in Santiago-de-Chile, and seeing ALL the early pottery with red/white/black motifs - in squarish korus... pretty much convinced me.
And then - visiting Easter Island, and discovering the similarities in their language with Te Reo... sealed the deal. Marae - meaning "house" on Easter Island, from memory.
I also saw some some graphic some while back with a tracing of common words from SE Asia, though Polynesia, to Aotearoa... pretty interesting/compelling.
And finally, met some random chick in Venezuela, with generic "tribal" tattoos which reminded a very VERY drunk 30-year-old me of Te Moko... and science just went ALL the way out the window.(Of course - a rather more sober version of me saw the photos I took of that Venezuelan 'lady' years later... they were in no way Moko. They were Mike Tyson level generic "tribal". Just... terrible.)
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Love is all around...
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@victor-meldrew in the air you could say!
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Fuck this made me laugh! $5.6 billion!
After taking the Coke bottles off the table and placing them out of sight, Ronaldo produced a bottle of water, holding it up and proclaiming to the assembled journalists people should "drink water".
The move isn't what Coca-Cola had in mind when sponsoring the European Championships, and the company saw $5.6 billion (NZD) wiped off its market value after Ronaldo's stunt.
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
when autocorrect goes wrong, and your editor doesnt do thier job...
*their
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Military bomb explosion off Florida coast
@Bones try that one
When you see a wider shot and it shows how close the aircraft carrier was.... Jeez! Testing it's blast wave robustness apparently.
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@taniwharugby What’s the background to that?