Comments | dungeon_beast: Interesting

dungeon_beast

Interesting

Jun 05, 2006 13:05

http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/06/02/figs-ancient.html

I find it interesting that we have only been practicing agriculture for 11,400 years. That's not really very long at all.

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barnaclebitch June 5 2006, 21:18:27 UTC

hey, its sab, remember me? :) i was wonderin if you had any poster room? gimmie am email chickhawk@gmail.com or if you still have my number, shout me

dungeon_beast June 6 2006, 18:39:43 UTC

I'm kinda drawing a blank. Do I get any hints?

barnaclebitch June 7 2006, 00:53:38 UTC

i was at teh black n blue for the first time, and you flogged me ;)
i'm the one that has the battle axe and all the crazy weapons i was tellin you about

dungeon_beast June 7 2006, 04:00:16 UTC

Oh, you're the chick who never shows up to the shoots. I got caught without a poster because I waited for you. Yup, I definitely remember you. How you doin?

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farming boredwithennui June 6 2006, 02:38:25 UTC

hey bryan I just added you to my list of gradually growing Lj friends..lo0ved the Cthulu bust btw..And yes 114000 years of agriculture is a very short time indeed, although I have to wonder at what point mankind decided that organizing plants into rows and cultivating them was easier than foraging..did it happen all of a sudden or was it gradual? but hey thats getting into evoulutionary theory I suppose and unfourtunately thats just not my forte.
gary

Re: farming dungeon_beast June 6 2006, 18:50:08 UTC

Thatnks for the compliments on Cthulhu. The 11,400 years of agriculture really hits home to me when we talk about disposing of industrial waste. It's completely surreal for me to talk about storing materials such as radioactive waste for several times longer than we have been practicing agriculture which is arguably the very first industry. It just roasts my noodle.

(insert all the obvious anti-nuke comments here)

BTW, I friended you back, I hope that's OK?

jack_pride June 18 2006, 00:57:42 UTC

Arguably, the creation of agriculture was our first step towards overpopulation and an unsupportable ecosystem. Before people had a permanent dwelling in which to load as many children as a mother's childbearing hips could take (and later starve them all when the crops failed that year), a woman would only have one child that needed to be carried at a time.