moloch-hai

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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Apparently the real problem is the Firewire hardware in the scanner fails.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
If you read back in the thread you will see that you have tried to change the subject at every point, and I have each time steered it back to the actual topic. I do not know why you insist on arguing against something no one has suggested,
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
That, anyway, is not a mystery. Heinlein had a medical condition that progressively blocked blood flow in his brain. He increasingly needed themes that would increase his blood pressure to be able to write at all. He finally got surgery.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Maybe read up just a bit? It is the biggest open question.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Comparing scripts is the only way to identify similarities and differences. We can be confident Korean is not an influence just on geographic grounds, but all Mediterranean scripts are in play, because whoever started using runes could have
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
It is called TFA, around here. I have copied the link for your convenience. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sensational-runest...
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
There is plenty of old evidence. We call them runestones. The glyphs on them have disputed origin. Nobody seems to imagine they were made up from whole cloth. But they don't resemble any other alphabet closely enough to nail down how t
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
It is right there at the top of the window you are looking at right now. They call it TFA around here.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
At issue is that there is now new evidence . It should be obvious that conclusions reached in its absence do not incorporate any evaluation of the new evidence. The conclusion might be strengthened, unaffected, weaker, or even reversed. Th
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
The origins of the runic script are not established. If they resembled something else strongly enough to say there was just the one, we would not be discussing this.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Denmark is at the threshold of the Baltic sea. Anyone who, like the Carthaginians, could have sailed to the Baltic sea would get there via the North Sea (or down the Oder River). Such quibbling is beneath you. Carthaginian influence might o
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
That work was all done without this new evidence. New evidence might reinforce old conclusions, or undermine them. Nobody knows without the work having been done.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
It is new evidence. Previous conclusions formed in its absence are obsolete. The new conclusion might be the same, or not, but not without checking first.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
I read most it in lockdown after finding it on my mother-in-law's shelf. The article is a fair assessment. Read it to see just how fanatical devotion and violence may share a mind, however uncomfortably, with intelligence and sensitivi
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
If you are certain that comparing the oldest runes to semitic glyphs won't show up a closer match than more recent runes do, what is wrong with comparing them, or talking about comparing them? The only possible objection is that you do
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Then what are you worried about?
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Yet, in just a few years all the French reactors will be mothballed because they cost several times as much to operate as buying off the grid.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Apparently, assuming it was "influenced by" only one "older writing system". But there is no basis for any such assumption. It appears to be purely a matter of their own convenience, wholly disconnected from anything i
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Are you aware of the article your post is attached to?
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
And it would start to come online in 2035. They would burn coal the whole time until then, while renewables cost continued on down below $10/MWh.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Either new evidence changes the picture, or it doesn't. Objecting to checking is not science.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Either the physical evidence suggests a connection or it doesn't. It is obviously fallacious to insist there could be no contact between Carthaginian and Germanic populations: boats sail between the Baltic and Mediterranean seas all th
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Carthage is much, much closer to Denmark, by sea, than Tyre. That matters because theirs was a maritime empire. If there are any differences between letterforms used in Tyre and later in Carthage, the ones from Carthage are the natural choi
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
I.e., two.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
No, I just want to know about what the evidence says about it.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Thanks. I tried to build it, and had to give up. Stuck on "import as" in its scons-local/ .. /gas.py. Debian-packaged scons complains, instead, about syntax "except OSError , (errnum, strerror)" in top-level SC
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
A great mystery of the world is how we came to have so many movies based on PKD stories. It is all out of any proportion to anything objectively identifiable about the stories themselves. Why them, and not Heinlein, or Pohl, or Anderson? Th
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
Carthaginians were Phoenicians.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
It was not really a solution. But those vids on YouTube of helicopters flying around with still rotors, and hummingbirds with their wing held out, are great.
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by moloch-hai 4y ago
I bought a Fisher Space Pen, as a teener. It leaked. Not very badly.

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