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bmnb123
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Posted - 09/16/2009 :  09:49:27  Show Profile Send bmnb123 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I found this on slashdot.

"Legends of the New Zealand Maori tell of giant man-eating birds. New scientific evidence proves that these birds did exist and were around the same time as humans in New Zealand. From the article, 'Scientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast's eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago.'"

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10597177

Simon
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Posted - 09/16/2009 :  13:11:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Yep; I notice it too...

Pretty cool. No give me a two-headed giant and some cloning equipement and I could turn my favourite D&D adventure into a LARP... The deadliest game (of LARP).

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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