Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, September 30, 2010, 00:12 (5148 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Plato and Pythagoras
> -The Pythagoreans ignored the concept of irrational numbers because it refuted the idea that the entire universe was built on what we now call "Platonic Solids." Legend has it they actually murdered the man who originally provided the proof that the square root of 2 was irrational. -> 5000yo leather shoes
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That's not terribly amazing, no offense. The Iceman's shoes were more interesting. -
> Mayans not just star gazing, masonry, and pretty faces anymore..
> -Having visited the ruins at Chichen Itza, I absolutely love the fact that they were able to build the site in such a way that if you clap your hands, the echo doesn't come back as a clap but as a bird call that is identical to a bird they held sacred. -Look, I never said the ancients weren't amazing, but you asked for a reason why we think ourselves superior to the ancients, and I provided an answer--trust me. Engineering is different than mathematics; they did amazing things with what was available to them (stone, in this case) but comparing that to the complexity found on an integrated circuit proves quite quickly where exactly we blow them out of the water. -> Ancient Kevlar
> -THAT one is cool; but again non-mathematical. -> 
> 11,500 year old temple..-This reminds me of a civilization found in the Andes that dates back prior to Egypt that also has left impressive relics... I do not remember them however. I will have to dig...

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