Green Baron

I don't understand that 2D proof of a 3D world with the use of 4 or more D measures around with gyroscopes ? A gyro keeps its orientation in space. Lets assume they have a fully cardanic one. The 2D ants will soon discover, that in whatever direction they go straight until they reach the starting point, the gyro will do a 360 along the axis parallel to the walking direction. Which should send a flash of insight through their ganglia "We must live on a 3D sphere !". Both cannot be true, in whatever dimension you do your math, the 3D spatial world stays a 3D spacial world, as a plane remains a plane when seen from a 3rd dimension. Or am i missing a complexity dimension here ?

Yep, i wasn't sure if it is a louse or a mite in English. They live on the Opuntiae. A field of them can grow ... a lot. It worked out well and it wasn't cheap.

Yeah, historical red colors are as you say vermillion (mineral) and cochineal(*) (carmine, biologic), in prehistorical contexts hematite and ochre is used. Pieces with traces of use were found near sites with art as well as elsewhere. Other biologic reds than carmine can't be ruled out, are even probable (am thinking of henna for example, where available). Just, in principle, mineral pigments are in use since 100 thousands of years, not only by so called modern humans. Both hematite (iron oxide) and ochre (iron hydroxide) aren't rare at all. Ochre, when heated and dried, can be converted to hematite, which gives a bright red streak when used. You can try it yourself :-) Funnily, where i live (La Palma), carmine was an economic factor. The cactus (Opuntia) that was imported to breed the lice (probably not the correct denomination here ?) is still a terrible pest plant here. Edit btw.: red colored sealing wax could have a special meaning, depending on time and area, like the king's or his official's privilege or so. Just saying, not that the bailiff knocks at the door :-) As a citizen of a free city in high medieval times, a white resinated wax would be harmless to use, i assume. :-)

I am sure it was a Noisy Cricket :-)

So, the boring company is selling bricks. "I really don't mind if you sit this one out." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bk2MrMGaA Terrible ear worm. For so long a time :-)

*lol* Well, it apparently does have a real archaeological background, just not as original, mysterious or occult as it might seem :-) And my knowledge about the prehistorical Americas is very limited.

It has a plotline ? Good, i'll buy it :-) Cool B.A.S.E. jumping cat ... (board, armoire, shelf, escritoire)

I have that from the special features on the DVD and interviews with the actors. Film and book were made side by side, they said. It wasn't my idea, the nuclear weapon thing ... *shrug* ------------------------------- [snipped] I took out what i linked and wrote about "scientists" reasoning about lost civilisations and their fingerprint because game forum ... :-)

You are probably right. A brief look at the first 2 minutes and a search revealed that the excavation was done in the late 19th century. But there is a museum, i am sure they'll be happy if somebody writes them and gives their lives a meaning ;-) Video teams are rare at a real excavation while it is taking place. Journalist's visits of course, photographs are being taken and so ... But the overall tone of the first 2 minutes did sound a little over important to me :-) Given that this apparently about an indigenous people from 7000 years ago, one of many. Pigment use by humans dates into the earliest African Middle Stone Age >300ky ago.

Errr, i'd very much like to help out but i won't go through an hour video. If you can tell who "the lost red people" are and what kind of color (mineral like hematite or biological like henna or others) is used there. What he holds is clearly an industrial thing, if it's just for demonstration or really a fake i can't judge right away. In principle, the pigments used in (the better) modern colors aren't much different from those used in prehistoric times. A binder is added to make the pigments adhere and last, maybe other stuff, pigments are mixed, and of course modern techniques allow for the production of much cheaper artificial color pigments. But pigments used for example in cave drawings or to color mussels or bones still shine brightly today, after 40.000yrs. But pigment use very much older than that ! Doing a quick search shows that the use of pigments like hematite and ochre for ritual or art purposes was not uncommon in north American prehistoric peoples. So, not necessarily a fake, but maybe a shortcut to pigment use with modern day technology ... ... valid until correction :-)

I like linux just for its distractions inexhaustible availability of tools and stuff. Must have a look at this later :-)

Yep, i thought you were serious. Btw. this article on "Altes Ägypten" = Ancient Egypt gets it perfectly right with leaving the Egyptian chronology as is and just referencing Aegean and Palestinian bronze age.

Book or tutorial. I personally prefer a good book. Should cover C11 and not some computer folklore :-) If not book: https://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c-tutorial.html this was recommended elsewhere. I'd take Linux. It costs nothing, has the most recent, reliable and functional compiler versions and is completely documented. Download a debian image on a stick, install it on your computer's drive on an own partition if possible or get an old fried out computer from anywhere. It really doesn't matter for getting into programming. When done with installation, install the package build-essential and that's it. In the beginning a terminal window, an editor, the command line, a few basal (not "basic" :-))) commands, the compiler, maybe a helper tool like make. At one future time you'll probably switch to an IDE. Example for a first session after os installation: - open terminal window - to install the compiler and libraries type sudo apt-get install build-essential - enter your password - to invoke the editor type nano hello.c - type in the program above - to save and exit press ctrl-o followed by enter and then ctrl-x - to compile type gcc -o hello hello.c - if error, correct it or ask. If not, to change the file flags to executable, type chmod +x hello - execute your first c-program by typing ./hello Have fun ! Edit: my short tone is by no means meant to be disrespectful ! I apologize if this is understood that way, i was just too lazy :-) 'nother edit: @Nukethe second line must be int main() { Mind the brackets behind the function name (), which denotes a function call without parameters. For the first step. And yes, printf() is declared in stdio.h. int main { will be interpreted by the compiler as a variable declaration and it'll lament a missing operator or , ; ...

There are definitely near perfect pages on Wikipedia, like the German one on Neandertals. But as well dismal nonsense. Academics don't use it as a reference (i recall students being kicked out of seminars), as you say, and so care as much as they do about articles in a local newspaper (not at all). Wikipedia changes each day and we had better things to do. One can actually lie or simplify pretty well on such a soft subject as this here, because really good publications are rare, and knowledge changes quickly. There are no constants, and the real people have enough other things to do. That leaves space for self appointed experts :-)

I know when copper, bronze and iron was available when and where :-) And this is the same problem i tried to address above: The sporadic or even unique use of certain materials does not name a time frame and is by no means uniform over different or even adjacent geographic areas. A chronology is always connected to local cultural expressions, not to make students lives difficult but to enable archeologists to work out the differences in every day lifestyle and culture. And a chronology needs enough material to set things in relation, relative (is older than ...) or absolute (calibrated C14 date of x +/- y) or dendro- chronological or whichever of the numerous methods can be used in a certain case. I know how many arrows the mummy from the Hauslabjoch had and what wood they were from and the state of his belongings and health as well as what he ate. But he has nothing to do with Egypt, his copper came from Tuscany. I responded to "Ancient Egypt was a bronze age society" which is not the case though in other areas a Bronze Age was taking place. The great pyramids were built by a neolithic society (use of copper is called chalcolithic period in parts of southern Europe and the Near East, but it is unsuited for hewing granite). The guys who wrote the wiki articles on bronze age and Egypt don't even have an academical education, they are probably less knowledgeable than you. I have that info from a wiki page where they were interviewed, admitting that they are just interested laymen (aaaaaallll of their life of course :-/). For the 3rd time: many people are working on relating Egyptian chronology to the surrounding. It is far from being complete, but i am not an expert for Egypt. If you are really interested, go or write to a museum with an Egyptian department and ask for the latest publications. Egyptian national museum might be a good place ;-) Edit: a link i found with metal finds and dates, no guarantee: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/metal/metalinegypt.html Do not believe Wikipedia if you can't check it. Go to the sources, university pages, books written by real academics, museum pages. Forget wikipedia. Anybody can write in there. Imagine i would write an article on physics ... ridiculous ! :-) I am probably talking to a wall since the force is strong with wikipedia. It is too tempting to just click and have a ready made answer. But in principle, what is ready made for a complex situation is almost always made up, willingly or not. Phew, don't be mad at me :-)

Nothing is set in stone, even that what is set in stone :-) It is the current view, subject to change without notice. Example: until a few weeks ago, Denisovans where regarded as distinct from Neandertals, having separated >300ky before. A new analysis now suggests (based on a 2cm piece of bone ) that the D. were Neandertals as much as Europeans are Sapienses (no comment on the latter).

Yep, if the partition to resize contains the whole tree it must be done from elsewhere. If all fails, i'd keep in mind that lvm is not needed for a simple resize (only if a partition spreads over several volumes). The files ystem tools can resize as well. Lvm is the right tool for spreading partitions over volumes, to setup software raid and for mirroring.

*lol* Really ? I had the impression that it was somehow connected with A. C. Clarke's book of the same name :-) Or the other way round, the book tries to interpret the movie ? I wish somebody had made a movie about Stanislaw Lem's "Peace on Earth" :-)

Was on very bumpy flight today. Negative g in mid air ...

I have tried again lately, but until now i have not yet made it through the hole film 2001 without fast forwarding. Without an explanation from the "special features" i didn't even dig what it is about; that aliens save the world by letting all the nuclear weapons vanish ... --------------- Will quantum computing really be faster than the classic electric stuff ? Or must we search for problems to the solution in order for it to be so ? The enthusiasm and google style hype seems to slow down or am i mistaken ?

others here :-) Almost surely not an odd thought. Since there is no hard definition of consciousness it is reasonable to assume different grades. I would say, everybody who has closer contact with animals (i mean vertebrates) can experience this more or less. People who work with animals (esp. dogs and horses come to my mind) can actually let them fell simple decisions on their own. The work horse can find its way through a forest, dragging a log behind it, or the dog can help a blind master go shopping and decide where and when to cross the road ... We run in a problem here. In a somewhat sciencey approach a consciousness is always connected to a brain, right now to a biological one. There is no consciousness outside a brain, thus the tenor from biology and philosophy. This to avoid drifting off into world views that see matter animated, or a spirit in things. Shamanism is the classic example for this. But it clearly leaves science and so ... well ... :-/ When searching, one finds o lot of pseudo science on this, even "scientists have found a consciousness outside the brain". This is simply not true. "I have not enough information, Dave." Seriously, the universe follows physics, there is no hint that there is a mindful plan or so. I am as sorry as possible ... :-) Or, if there is a mastermind at work, i must have word with it :-)

Not that i knew of from anthropology ... which does not mean "no". In principle, consciousness is granted to everybody without questioning. I don't even know about a proper definition from philosophy ... just analogies. I recall trying to read Popper's "The Self and its Brain" in younger years, where some evolutionary discussion stuff was brought in. I freely admit i have not understood it. Maybe there are good chances to navigate around metaphysics if searching for an evolutionary aspect of this in theoretic biology ... *shrug* Edit: it probably is "how complex must a brain become before it develops degrees of consciousness". I have no idea, but the answer is not 42 :-)

Yeah, this "like" meant suit yourself :-/ To end this, and because i am tired, when i tried to explain how chronologies come into being, you barked me away. I will not risk that again because of fear of derailing everything and eventually stressing our moderator team ever more. Instead, and because i think you do have appropriate access via university network or so, i kindly ask to go on an own research. These hints may bring you further, i hope: "Bronze Age" is an early 19th century concept, rarely used as a generalization among archeologists. It belongs to northern Europe. Greece and the Levant as well as part of Mesopotamia actually have their bronze age chronologies. Egyptian has its own independent chronology. Apart from isolated finds, bronze doesn't come in wide use before ~1500bc. But copper did afaik (must be checked). You'll probably find out that it is not that easy. The Wikipedia article i referred to simply held "Bronze age" and Egyptian chronology side by side and that is actually an oversimplification and grossly misleading. This all is a lot of ongoing work and i am not a specialist in Egypt myself (it is an own study subject under the cultural sciences, while prehistory hangs under the natural sciences where i studied), so i apologize for just repeating myself by saying, ancient Egypt was a fully developed neolithic society. With the metal ages, it started to dwindle and in the iron age, when the Romans arrived, there were only city states left (*). -------------- You were right, i am not a physicist and to one my remarks may sound silly like some things sound silly to me. Believe me, i am aware and not at all ashamed of it. But there is no need and it is not helpful to try to silence people because they apparently lack competence in a field. Even in the scientific journals you can find publications that totally miss the point, or where the authors thought they found something new that'll stop the world turning while others, reading it, slide from their chairs and role on the floor, laughing. Because getting angry won't change the misery :-) Be it as it may, let's end the feud. Getting angry is not useful. I look forward to reading your comments on physics if they are comprehensible to me. I got angry in spring about someone trolling me badly in here and because of that rightfully got a warning. But, it is interesting, both fields, either physics and geoscience, do at their very fringes have the disadvantage of loosing their exactness, maybe the latter more than the former. Things can be and are interpreted this and that way. Phew, that was time ! Peace on earth. Dear friends on the American east coast, stay safe ! Edit (*) i know this a terrible generalization. But i can do better: earth history for the hasty: continents together, continents apart :-)

It is not at you to judge and you are of the same kind, like bronze age in ancient Egypt where you critiquelessly copied a dismal Wikipedia knowledge and didn't even listen to an attempt of an archaeologist to bring you back on the right track. It is an often observed effect (and i am not free of it) and is called psychological projection to see the own positive and negative aspects in others. Only, one should be aware of it, and not bark at anyone who doesn't fulfill the standards one prides oneself of. Because you.are.not.better. Hope we're together ;-)

And you're really having fun underestimating people and putting everyone down who doesn't feed your ego, is that so ? Because you make sloppy and marginally correct remarks to others, wait for a reply and then put them down in a personal way. Nice guy. Breathe though the nose, relax, lean back, smile, think something positive like a successful return from Tylo. You're not the only educated person in the world, everybody has his/her specialties and here we can meet to discuss them.