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2008-07-06 Science & Technology

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Posted by lotp 2008-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The pre-Incan peoples are one of the biggest prehistoric mysteries around.

Not only are their solar observatories offset by 30,000 years, measurable because of the regular decline of the Earth's axial tilt, which is much less than it used to be.

But these people also used portable furnaces with bellows capable of melting serious metal alloys, then poured into improbably large and carefully fitted rocks, as brackets.

They were also amazingly advanced with their continually-changing-due-to-earthquakes irrigation system. Their channels were designed with just enough decline and barriers so that water would not run too fast and erode the channel, nor would it stagnate.

And then, of course, were the profusion of enormous pictographs visible at altitude, a communications system based in complex knotted cords, and who knows how many other cultural eccentricities.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-06 00:35|| 2008-07-06 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks Moosey.. the check is in the mail...

~;)

Posted by Erich von Daniken">Erich von Daniken 2008-07-06 07:40|| 2008-07-06 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Is dat come from The CheckBooks of the Author?

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-06 09:50|| 2008-07-06 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Screw the knotty cords. Where's the bling?

Posted by Lara Croft 2008-07-06 11:48|| 2008-07-06 11:48|| Front Page Top

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