kerbiloid

1. A Scandinavian fishmen excuse, explaining why did they sink the ship instead of bringing fish. 2. A deity of programmer's negligence in KSP. (ninja'd) Jeb's Mum is everywhere. It's called Unity. Is Kraken male or female?

Banned for no polar hexagon on the profile Saturn. Banned for controversy. If it's created, it exists.

Yes, it's a lactose-tolerant soup. Stop discriminating lactose, it's a sugar like others! Waiter! A gluten sandwich with lactose.

Granted. Now the mesh colliders have lost this ability. I wish for horses in KSP.

This sounds alarming. If they needed a cliff to kill just a big cow, how could they finish the megafauna like mammoths, seriously? Especially since the mammoths preferred steppe and tundrosteppe where the nearest cliff can be at hundreds kilometers away. Idk if the Indians were sophisticated in Vietnam War style ground traps, but wolf pits as a artificial cliff was in use long ago. Though, it's a real entertainment to dig a mammoth pit with sharp sticks instead of shovels. ??? It's "dichok" ("wild thing"). Sour, but sometimes edible. Also you can cook them on fire like you do with roots. Planting was known since the first human had thrown away a sour apple or uneaten grains, and a year later they saw a plant growing from the trash heap. Just it was a fun fact for them, as it was easier to find a wild one than to throw grains and apples. After the Ice Age the Fertile Crescent had enough good climate and soil to make such seeding productive, and the people were needing new food sources in the changed conditions. It took them just 2 000 years to put the farming on conveyor. *** Also the thing making to think they were aware of idea of "dig into ground to keep it returnable" is an inhumation burial ritual. Originally probably just to prevent the smell which attracts predators, but later turned into a whole procedure with equipping and posing. Why? They were hunting the British and gathering gold. It appeared from the discussion if metals are a necessary attribute of a civilisation, so can a species having no metallurgy become enough developed to be compatible to what we call "civilisation". The humans obviously have such ability, just different peoples had different rate of its development due to various local reasons. But anyway everyone who survived would come to it. So, as SETI hasn't brought any new data, all we can discuss here is why the purple ammonia-breathing octopuses still haven't built a radiotelescope out of ice and fish fat.

1. Ferrari knows that you love pain, and is hurting you to make you happy. 2. You love pain because this turns your defeats into wins.

Cheating wise call is cheating.

Banned for using parenhypotheses.

Granted. You have to marry mermaid. I wish for a mole of moles.

Humans are just 200k yo. 3 mln ago they were proto-humans, and their brain was much smaller. And they were living in small groups of 100 members, where the division of labour was not possible. A tribe of Swiss army knives (or multitools). They didn't. They were just catching and holding the prey together to avoid hunting every time, and they were seeding and gathering same wild crops which they were gathering in wild nature. They would be very surprised to know that something changed. A hunter gatherer tribe is not a pack of beggars aimlessly and ramdomly wandering from land to land, like the movies and XIX century saloon visioneers were describing. You can't survive in a forest by looking for food. You must know its places and patrol them in known route. They have a tribal territory (~1000 km2 / 100 human tribe) and live there. (0.1 human/km2, that's all what h/g stone-age society can support). The male half and actually the whole tribe are ruled by 5..6 adult (20+) men. They have survived several generations of youngsters, so their authority is absolute for everyone who wants a chance to do that. They don't need a formal chief daily, so just decide who (of them five) is a boss when they need to cooperate for hunting or war. Others are shuttimg up and listening. The male "hunters" (actually, scouts) are patrolling the territory following the routes known to them, from hazel place, ro the raspberry place, then to the hare place, then to the mushroom place, to the deer place, to and back. Small recon/patrol/hunting groups with an elderman at the top, several groups per tribe. They are doing that, moving silently, and looking out for prey. When they see something or somebody edible, they kill it and bring to the encampment, where the female part is fishing, skinning, cooking, etc. When raspberries are ripe, they tell this to the female matrons, and next day the matrons kick the maiden backs and the female part goes and gathers the berries. The male scouts are hanging around kinda to protect them (actually to not carry the heavy payload), When the spring with berries is over, they move the camp to their another usual place, a couple of kilometers far, where the fish is coming for spawning, and the fruit trees are close, The scheme repeats, just the routes change. No need to patrol the berry glade in autumn. When it gets cold, they move to the winter camp, preferrably in some cave. Also they can keep there their strategic food supplies and other things. Next year everything repeats. They have a large deer forest at the boundary of their territory, and hunt there. It's a neutral territory of them and neighboring tribes (relatives and aliens), which hunt there, too. There is a men's house (not a wooden restroom, but a hunting operating base and a bootcamp for the boyscouts of 5..7+, till the initiation). Obviously, it is the main interibal hunting gods sanctuary. Another group of tribes can have their own or just be guests, so from time to time everybody trespasses to another one's land for robbing or poaching. Then a war happens. They lose several people, but capture an enemy prisoner. Unlike the XIX visioneers stories (that they don't because a slave would eat every berry he could find), they normally have slaves from the prisoners of war and kidnapped women. When it's enough food to throw it out, the p-o-w slaves do dirty and hard daily job like skinning, cleaning etc. When it's hunger, they eat them first. So, a slave actually doesn't spend any resource and is very profitable. Thus, they are living on a very limited territory, their "wandering" is just moving a tent camp three times per year for several kilometers, to their known and prepared camp places, and they even don't have an idea that they are nomads. They just live in their village consisting of several camp places and a cave dungeon. Thus, they didn't make any step from hunting/gathering to agriculture/husbandry. They just grew enough big to focus on the resource collection and stopped moving from camp to camp, because all of them were in use at once. Because they were living in comfortable places of the Crescent surrounded by sea, steppe, and mountains They collected available animals in pens to kill them more comfortably, sitting on a bench, and were seeding the grains on their usual territory. Previously they didn't need it. They would be surprised that their official status changed, because they were living like always did, just with some technical improvements. Climate played a role, because megafauna got extinct, and the fast food like gazelles became the main prey, so they changed spears to arrows. When their settlements reached 10k limit, it was impossible to provide everyone with food from his own field, and at the same time there were enough peasant around to make goods and sell them for living. The division of labour appeared, and after that a primitive state was brooming the tribal neighbors around.

Taxonomy

@Caerfinon is banned for Carthage destruction.

Heard about it, and wish to refer to the opinion of ru/wiki (in google translate) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ружья,_микробы_и_сталь#Критика

Making complex questions simple is what makes the people's lives possible. Too complicated models rarely correlate with reality better than a simple common sense. Usualy they lack a thousand more factors and suffer from volatile and estimated coefficients. Do not forget: the history is made by simple, plain, and lazy guys with no theory in heads and doing everything as easily as possible. Wise men are hired to rule the peasants. 200 thousand years of human evolution have been dedicated to throw bigger stones farther, and watch down from a higher tree. All those fizzix-schmizzix, rocketry-pocketry, and other nerdish stuff were invented just for this. Btw, try to explain to a pithecanthropus the physical principles of the space tech, he will understand nothing. But he will need no explanation of its purpose, just show by hands, it's his native and familiar ideas.

Banned for banning instead of explaining the difference between the a priori and a posteriori in terms of the post posting. "post-posting a posteriori" to post after posting post factum

Calling a sapient wise is a cheating. The human as example.

Granted. Now you want them to be more dull. I wish whales were fishes.

Not decisive no.

Roman Emperor cookie. Usually adopted and brought to the god status.

Just browse your soup. Waiter! Two months passed since our previous visit, but this spot is still on the table.

Sounds like the British count money by weight, while the South Africans don't bother and use the rand() function to generate them.

Between other nuisances insulting the extinct elephants (like changed climate, changed diet , and documented mass degeneration caused by inbreeding) were also packs of two-legged beings with sticks and stones making ugly faces and weird screams. These beings were the most nasty, making the elephants just die from disgust. On the North America plains, almost human-free, compared to the populated Southern lands where only lamas and tapirs were being caught. And the millions of buffalos grazing unpunishedly in the North American steppes are were a living proof of how few people were living there till XIX, and how limitedly they were affecting the local biosphere. Here, in Eurasia, all big cattle was forced to surrender or die immediately after the Ice Age ended, and humans started turning stones into metals. Scavengers always appear where something big died. Why should humans differ from others? If kill only already dying mammoths and weak mammothlings lost by the mammoth pack, it will be fine with the hunter health. And wouldn't affect the elephant population. Of course, there is another nice way, to set the steppe on fire (probably how the pithecantropuses learned the usage of fire) and make all mammoths either fry or run away and fall from rocks. But the problems is what to eat next decade until the new mammoths have grown. How many wolves were populating the territory of Cahokia in addition to 40k humans? Easily. Either buffalo hadn't eaten the crops, or it had and was killed and eaten by the village. Win-win. Maybe even the crops were a clickbait for buffalos. Interesting, were they digging wolf pits in the rice? Gods of rice and corn were fighting for dominance over humans. *** When you don't have metals, you are very limited in choice of habitation place and total population. Because not every stone is appropriate for tool making. You need flint or obsidian, which are rare in mountains and almost exotic on plowland plains. So, you need to import it from hundreds kilometers, bring it by hands, and spend several days to make one badly shaped tool. With metals the tool making starts running much faster. *** All is simple. The lithosphere is lying between two monstrous balls of fire, the Sun from above, and the core from below. Like the fusion secondary ina thermonuke is being heated and compressed between the fission primary fire from outside and the fission sparkplug fire from inside. In between it's boiling and seething, so a part of lithosphere gets separated as water and organics, and part of geology studying this organic foam is called biology. Humans are just a part of lithosphere representing its self-organization and thermodynamic self-regulation.

Bronze one. Right after the Ice Age. When the humans started managing biosphere by agriculture and herding. It was a specific situation in Americas, where the human was among three or so physically biggest predators (jaguar, crocodile), and there was no big cattle. And anyway until the first musket. Pyramids and other alien artifacts are useless in sense of domination. They aren't even fortresses to hide. *** Metals aren't magic. Stones are oxidized metals. So, the stone age is a spoiled metal one. And the civilisation either can reduce the metals oxides, or no.

Doesn't matter. We need aggressive aliens for stock BDArmory. Just let them try not to be aggressive.

Banned for post-posting a posteriori.