Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
its pretty impressive the amount of exploring Maori/Polynesians did!
I thought this was interesting but it seems a bit doubtful as it's one "myth" submitted to a somewhat dodgy European recorder. Sent it to my mate (who has a PhD in Maori Migration) and he thought it was hookum.
But agree with your comment on the amount of exploring Polynesians did considering how far they went throughout the Pacific.
I might see if I can find the actual paper to have a read though.
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@nepia you are probably right, I mean the prep required to do that (clothing/food etc) would have been significant, and Polynesians arent that fond of cold are they
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nepia you are probably right, I mean the prep required to do that (clothing/food etc) would have been significant, and Polynesians arent that fond of cold are they
This one definitely isn't ... Sydney is getting too cold for me, I'm still hunting for the elusive job of 9 months in Sydney and 3 months in Cairns!
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@nepia said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
But agree with your comment on the amount of exploring Polynesians did considering how far they went throughout the Pacific.
Didn't the Polynesians navigate by the stars? Think I read that decades ago in Vikings of the Pacific.
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@victor-meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nepia said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
But agree with your comment on the amount of exploring Polynesians did considering how far they went throughout the Pacific.
Didn't the Polynesians navigate by the stars? Think I read that decades ago in Vikings of the Pacific.
Yep, stars, and Island hopping - following bird migrations etc, supplemented with oral tradition as I think they knew where to sail to get the best push when travelling from the Eastern pacific.
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@machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nepia they got sweet potato back from South America, so it wouldn't surprise me if they made it to icebergs and back!
There's a big program under way somewhere to track back human origins/migration using DNA. Read they have traced Polynesian DNA to the Asian mainland about 10,000 years ago and some native Sth American (pre-European) DNA has been found in Hawaii and Easter Island which may support the idea they reached Sth America.
Amazing navigators and explorers.
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@victor-meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nepia they got sweet potato back from South America, so it wouldn't surprise me if they made it to icebergs and back!
There's a big program under way somewhere to track back human origins/migration using DNA. Read they have traced Polynesian DNA to the Asian mainland about 10,000 years ago and some native Sth American (pre-European) DNA has been found in Hawaii and Easter Island which may support the idea they reached Sth America.
Amazing navigators and explorers.
Just visiting the museum in Santiago-de-Chile, and seeing ALL the early pottery with red/white/black motifs - in squarish korus... pretty much convinced me.
And then - visiting Easter Island, and discovering the similarities in their language with Te Reo... sealed the deal. Marae - meaning "house" on Easter Island, from memory.
I also saw some some graphic some while back with a tracing of common words from SE Asia, though Polynesia, to Aotearoa... pretty interesting/compelling.
And finally, met some random chick in Venezuela, with generic "tribal" tattoos which reminded a very VERY drunk 30-year-old me of Te Moko... and science just went ALL the way out the window.(Of course - a rather more sober version of me saw the photos I took of that Venezuelan 'lady' years later... they were in no way Moko. They were Mike Tyson level generic "tribal". Just... terrible.)
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So very cool
Ultra-thin film could one day turn regular glasses into night vision goggles, researchers say
Developed by Australian and European researchers, the film works by converting infrared light into light visible to the human eye
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Love is all around...
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@victor-meldrew in the air you could say!
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Fuck this made me laugh! $5.6 billion!
After taking the Coke bottles off the table and placing them out of sight, Ronaldo produced a bottle of water, holding it up and proclaiming to the assembled journalists people should "drink water".
The move isn't what Coca-Cola had in mind when sponsoring the European Championships, and the company saw $5.6 billion (NZD) wiped off its market value after Ronaldo's stunt.
Expensive stunt: Two words from Ronaldo cost Coca-Cola $5.6 billion
Cristiano Ronaldo's press conference stunt wiped $5.6 billion off the value of Coca-Cola.
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
when autocorrect goes wrong, and your editor doesnt do thier job...
*their
