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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 08/08/2009 : 13:27:31
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Look at that!
Seems like a really cool discovery!
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/08/2009 : 14:16:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Look at that!
Seems like a really cool discovery!
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Cool indeed. It's yet another tiny fragment of the mosaic of ancient, human history put in place.
Of course, the dating is not reliable because they use BCE; Before Common Era, rather than the proper BC; Before Christ. Therefore, cool or not, the whole thing is thrown into grave doubt. Besides, never having known that same Christ, all of those people are deservedly rotting forever in the very hemorrhoids of Hell, anyway.
Sorry 'bout that, but it's a slow, arthritic Saturday afternoon..... 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 08/09/2009 : 13:14:23 [Permalink]
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| Well; sorry to hear of your arthritis. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/09/2009 : 14:18:32 [Permalink]
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I wasn't clear from the article whether the archaeologists are recovering Luwian, Neo-Assyrian, or both kinds of cuneiform tablets. The Luwian language was an Indo-European language of the area, related closely to Hittite.
Luwian is also one of the "candidates" for the language spoken in Troy, which may have been a Luwian colony city-state. (The Neo-Assyrian empire made Aramaic -- a Semitic language related closely to Hebrew -- their official lingo.) Wouldn't it be cool if there were mentions of Troy, or of the ancient Hebrews, in that cuneiform cache?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Special dedicace to Cune...
