CJ Wiley: flat earther

All this just because CJ espoused his belief in a long ago debunked theory.

Homo Sapiens from thousands of years ago were physically just like us. They had the ability to think, research and create just like us. We stand on their shoulders.

In many ways they there smarter than us, and had to be. They had no sophisticated technology to help them. They used brainpower and sheer strength to build these amazing edifices. Take away all our modern tools and what could we build today. It might take us hundreds of years to duplicate what they created using their native intelligence. So who's smarter. I'm not so sure.

20,000 years from now our generation will be considered to have been primitive. Of coure by then we will be more like machines and a little less human. Implants everywhere! Need a new organ, you buy one.
 
sjm said:
Now that made me laugh.
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jay helfert said:
All this just because CJ espoused his belief in a long ago debunked theory.

Homo Sapiens from thousands of years ago were physically just like us. They had the ability to think, research and create just like us. We stand on their shoulders.

In many ways they there smarter than us, and had to be. They had no sophisticated technology to help them. They used brainpower and sheer strength to build these amazing edifices. Take away all our modern tools and what could we build today. It might take us hundreds of years to duplicate what they created using their native intelligence. So who's smarter. I'm not so sure.

20,000 years from now our generation will be considered to have been primitive. Of coure by then we will be more like machines and a little less human. Implants everywhere! Need a new organ, you buy one.
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Back when I noticed such things I had a Cro-Magnon man working for me. When I looked around I saw more people that had the identical skull and bone structure of the cave men we see in the books. They are still all among us.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Back when I noticed such things I had a Cro-Magnon man working for me. When I looked around I saw more people that had the identical skull and bone structure of the cave men we see in the books. They are still all among us.

Hu
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Well to be specific, Cro-Magnons are us, H. sapiens. We outcompeted the neanderthals due to our increased cranium (bigger brain), although more and more evidence supports that interbreeding between the species was common. But yes, there is still plenty of neanderthal DNA in those of european ancestry.
 
jokrswylde said:
Well to be specific, Cro-Magnons are us, H. sapiens. We outcompeted the neanderthals due to our increased cranium (bigger brain), although more and more evidence supports that interbreeding between the species was common. But yes, there is still plenty of neanderthal DNA in those of european ancestry.
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Yes, DNA research has proven that we tagged pretty much anything we could catch!

Another possible throwback, I went to school with a boy three years or so younger nicknamed Apey. Even the teachers called him that. The reason was simple, when he ran he ran naturally on his knuckles. By the third grade or so they had pretty much broke him of the habit. Always wondered how it developed to begin with. I heard he walked on feet and knuckles after crawling and before walking erect. True or not, I don't know. I do know he would go flying down the halls on feet and knuckles!

Hu
 
jay helfert said:
All this just because CJ espoused his belief in a long ago debunked theory.

Homo Sapiens from thousands of years ago were physically just like us. They had the ability to think, research and create just like us. We stand on their shoulders.

In many ways they there smarter than us, and had to be. They had no sophisticated technology to help them. They used brainpower and sheer strength to build these amazing edifices. Take away all our modern tools and what could we build today. It might take us hundreds of years to duplicate what they created using their native intelligence. So who's smarter. I'm not so sure.

20,000 years from now our generation will be considered to have been primitive. Of coure by then we will be more like machines and a little less human. Implants everywhere! Need a new organ, you buy one.
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You talk like humans woke up one day able to do those things thousands of years ago. Even simple tools took a very long time to develop.

If our modern technology were taken away tomorrow we would develope and use simple technologies and tools MUCH faster than originally by those thousands of years ago. In fact, most of it still exists anyway.

Their technical abilities accumulated over time just like ours. We are currently developing much faster than ancient humans did or even could.
 
Chopdoc said:
... If our modern technology were taken away tomorrow we would develop and use simple technologies and tools MUCH faster than originally by those thousands of years ago. ...
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One of my favorite science fiction short stories was about this sort of thing. A glitch transferred everyone in a neighborhood to an alternate/past/future Earth. Only their bodies were transferred -- even their tooth fillings were left behind. The story described how they would bootstrap themselves with the technology they brought in their brains.
 
jay helfert said:
All this just because CJ espoused his belief in a long ago debunked theory.

Homo Sapiens from thousands of years ago were physically just like us. They had the ability to think, research and create just like us. We stand on their shoulders.

In many ways they there smarter than us, and had to be. They had no sophisticated technology to help them. They used brainpower and sheer strength to build these amazing edifices. Take away all our modern tools and what could we build today. It might take us hundreds of years to duplicate what they created using their native intelligence. So who's smarter. I'm not so sure.

20,000 years from now our generation will be considered to have been primitive. Of coure by then we will be more like machines and a little less human. Implants everywhere! Need a new organ, you buy one.
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I have all respect in the world for CJ as a player and teacher of the game, but flat earther, come on.

Proving the earth was round was one of mankinds great early achievements. Erastothenes actually calculating the earths circumference in 240 BC, using only a stick and some travel is a great feat of human ingenuity and logic https://spokenpast.com/articles/how-eratosthenes-measured-earth/ . Respecting the shoulders on which we stand is paramount for further progress. Misinformation should not be allowed to slide without correction, you never know who will come into power and start teaching nonsense in school, then where will we be? There are people who would love to see us crawling around in mud and dying of toothaches again.

I always thought the flat earth nonsense strated as an elaborate way to make people challenge their assumptions and apply scepticism and scientific method to their observations. Unfortunately, as a side effect, some people are actually convinced that the earth is flat. Some even die in order to prove this belief, in what can only be described as ill-conceived experiments. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51602655 Harmless fun is one thing, but when people die and even try to teach this nonsense, it's not so harmless, is it? If one were a cynical SOB, one would perhaps find solace in the fact that misapprehensions about physics tend to be self-correcting...
 
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Bob Jewett said:
One of my favorite science fiction short stories was about this sort of thing. A glitch transferred everyone in a neighborhood to an alternate/past/future Earth. Only their bodies were transferred -- even their tooth fillings were left behind. The story described how they would bootstrap themselves with the technology they brought in their brains.
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How long did it take humans to learn to start a fire? Humans existed for approximately 2.4 million years before actively starting fire. Modern humans didn't wake up one day able to do it.

How long would it take one of us to figure it out?
 
maha said:
filler may not be better than lassiter was. we will never know. but in any case it would be close.

filler would win on todays equipment and jumping rules

and lassiter would win i believe on the old equipment and playing conditions.
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I grew up watching the old legends (not Lassiter old, but Earl, Buddy, Sigel, Varner, Hopkins old). When I watch their videos now, it's pretty obvious how superior today's top guys are. While they certainly played well enough to take a set of someone like Filler, in a long race, they would stand absolutely no chance.
 
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