Leszek Cyfer

[Leszek Cyfer @LeszekCyfer]

As Hanlon said "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I'm sure the guys at Unesco meant good, I mean surely the site is large, so it doesn't have to be excavated in the entirety just because some Indiana Corsetti wants to. The technology advances in such a breakneck speed that the knowledge we can gain now doesn't excuse the knowledge we will lose permanently because each excavation is destruction of evidence. Old scavengers hunted for precious metals, stones and artifacts, old archeologists tried to make sense within a site - the sequence of layers, the dating etc. Nowadays you can use sand to date the last time it was exposed to light - something I didn't know possible even a year ago - what else trace elements knowledge can we get with a proper technology? The longer something was in earth the less of it remains, but it does remain as a shadow of the thing that dissolved in the spot. Instead of just digging out the stones we could identify phantom shadows of things thad were buried alongside but dissolved since.- if we use proper technology, for example nanotechnological disassemblers noting precise position and attributes of single atoms. Today excavations should be only done where there is destruction looming on the horizon - like some development, rapid erosion etc.
Sure some elements of the site has been destroyed by the pillars of the roof, but the idea was "we can't allow the remnants be destroyed by the weather" - and the rest was typical tragicomedy of stupidity and ignorance with some elements of greed sprinkled on top. It can look from autside as a malicious scheme but in truth the devil is never as scary as they paint it...

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@elonmusk What are the effects of your fight with the bot deluge problem? Is there still much less people here than bots?

[Leszek Cyfer @LeszekCyfer]

Absolute most of car rides is two or less, so that's the working horse. Also with self driving enabled it will become a breadwinner - your own automatic taxi robot that's working for you instead of hogging parking spot. Most families have two cars - the second can be bigger for the occasions where you need the space.
There's nothing shitty about this car - projection is a b*tch...

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Past is past, now is now. I can contemplate the works of people who are gone now, but the past should not be impediment of the people who live now. Sure, preserve the past, be aware of it but it should not stop us from living. If it is a very important place for current generations, we should leave the place alone and make a detour, but if it is forgotten, it should be recorded and parts of it moved to storage or museum exposition, and detour only considered if it can serve us today as a touristic attraction where it is.
I would not condone building a road through Gobekli Tepe, but it is a special case - the oldest civilisation we found so far, and all people want to know where we come from, as we are a species with amnesia. But most remnants are not this important

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@BrightInsight6 Yes and no, wrong question. Does a dog have a Buddha nature?

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@Weird_Old_World I remember photos of a steel ladder in a mine covered in calcinous stalagnate like growth - it took maybe a couple of decades, so it could be a really rapid process in proper conditions

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"Why are we (archaeologists) excavating there and revealing findings. ?"
Duh. Because you won't allow anyone else to dig there.
If someone else excavated you would cry into the high heavens, so that's a stupid answer to a stupid rhetorical question.

And real answer - because you are protecting your image and enough outcry was raised by the public that had to take action

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Nawet jeśli by nie zaczęli kopać (prawdopodobnie żeby ocenić stopień uszkodzenia ruin przez korzenie) to Jimmy nagłośnił sprawę tych drzew i dzięki temu ruiny nie były dalej uszkadzane. Również uważam że nie należy przesadzać z ilością wykopalisk, ale w tym przypadku można to podciągnąć pod casus wykopalisk ratunkowych

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@Tartan511 @Weird_Old_World Except that the ferries take the news when they sink...

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@Weird_Old_World The lines delineating layers of stone in the end look like some proto-Nazca Lines :)

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@BrunoHernand3x @Close2TheLarsen @vxdb That's why I don't use it in my phone

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Beautiful example of projection. Putin talks plainly and clearly about himself. Love it.

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@bozwy Przede wszystkim twórz wokół siebie społeczność zaufanych ludzi, wspierajcie się nawzajem i regularnie spotykajcie i współpracujcie. Taka społeczność to aktyw który nie wyparuje tak jak bitcoin czy tak jak własność prywatna którą państwo może skonfiskować

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@Flux__Studio @Weird_Old_World When looking for treasures the robbers could just push the stones out into the sea, not bothering with moving them anywhere

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@Flux__Studio @Weird_Old_World Nice building materiał, or nowadays looking for treasures

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@Weird_Old_World @mariusderomanu3 0:05 nice number six (or nine, depending on the POV). Also on some other pictograms I noticed numbers 001, 0001, where the little line on top of 1 is on the other side, as if someone was writing it from the under the ground looking up...

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@Weird_Old_World Wow, this place looks very difficult to access - perhaps that's why the stones were not robbed out completely

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@Weird_Old_World That's interesting - does the uni act partly like a museum or is this for a research?

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Strong magnet helping beehive to survive and thrive

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@tomt78530 @Weird_Old_World It is white granite, like the rock all around it. The black color comes from a fungus covering it