Random News not worthy of own thread

[Morkonan]

This is awesome..

Millennia of human activity: heatwave reveals lost UK archaeological sites
The scorching weeks of the summer of 2018 left crops shrivelled and gardens scorched. It has also revealed the lines of scores of archaeological sites across the UK landscape, tracing millennia of human activity, from neolithic cursus monuments laid out more than 5,000 years ago to the outline of a long-demolished Tudor hall and its intended replacement.

Lost sites have been turning up all over Britain and Ireland, ploughed flat at ground level but showing up as parch marks from the air, in areas where grass and crops grow at different heights, or show in different colours, over buried foundations and ditches. A treasure trove of discoveries...

PICS!

Look at all that cool stuff!

I wonder how much of England, Ireland and Scotland have been subjected to IR and UV satellite scans like those that have been used in places like South America to reveal hidden structures. Well, I guess they don't need a space launch or a satellite to reveal these - Just turn up the heat.

[felter]

The title to those pics is just wee bit misleading, which is normal. It says
UK archaeology sites made visible in heatwave, while all of those pictures are from England, the rest of the UK doesn't count to them. Wales and Ireland did discover some sites, but as far as I know no new sites were seen in Scotland. Scotland doesn't suffer droughts the same way as the rest of the UK. While they were introducing hosepipe bans due to lack of water, Scotland were going, were fine we have plenty of water.

It is also not a new phenomenon, we used to have an archaeological TV show called Time Team and they used photos of that sort of thing to find possible areas to dig. Channel four should bring it back and investigate some of those new sites, I'm sure it would be hit.

[Hank001]

Hold your breath Observe.
Commin' Atcha...

Carbon Monoxide from California fires moves east....

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7214

Seems drought is getting around everywhere but here
where I am... Wish I could email the UK some rain in exchange for real clear night or two.

[Morkonan]

Yeah, I've seen pics/discoveries like this before in the UK. But, the article seems to be announcing a bonanza of new sites being easily visible. I find that exciting. I was always a big fan of archeology, moreso the anthropological aspects of it and how people lived, what their culture was like, etc.

Anyway, it's darn cool stuff. I'm an 'Murican... So, our "archeological" stuff is limited to ancient Indian monuments, arrowheads, some pottery, a few preserved bits and pieces where humidity just plain "doesn't go" and some interesting Viking stuff that people constantly argue about. So, while there are a few ruins to discover that can be a couple of hundred years-old, they don't quit have the possibility of having hosted ancient battlegrounds with "Knights in Shining Armor" brutalizing the populace. Best we can do is a few old blankets coated in smallpox...

A secret joy of mine: "Prehistoric battlefields" They're just so damn few confirmed ones to be able to figure out wtf was going on. Where are the darn giant-ground-sloth-shock-cavalry! Sure, they're slow... But, when they get there, wooo boy, watch out!

[Hank001]

@ Morkonan

A secret joy of mine: "Prehistoric battlefields...

Well how about fighting a dragon in more modern times...
No... I mean a honest to gosh DRAGON...
History says it was just up north of here in Alton, Illinois

http://www.altonweb.com/history/piasabird/

[felter]

Hold your breath Observe.
Commin' Atcha...

Carbon Monoxide from California fires moves east....

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7214

Seems drought is getting around everywhere but here
where I am... Wish I could email the UK some rain in exchange for real clear night or two.

But according to your government, global warming does not exist it's all a hoax.

Yeah, I've seen pics/discoveries like this before in the UK. But, the article seems to be announcing a bonanza of new sites being easily visible. I find that exciting. I was always a big fan of archeology, moreso the anthropological aspects of it and how people lived, what their culture was like, etc.

Anyway, it's darn cool stuff. I'm an 'Murican... So, our "archeological" stuff is limited to ancient Indian monuments, arrowheads, some pottery, a few preserved bits and pieces where humidity just plain "doesn't go" and some interesting Viking stuff that people constantly argue about. So, while there are a few ruins to discover that can be a couple of hundred years-old, they don't quit have the possibility of having hosted ancient battlegrounds with "Knights in Shining Armor" brutalizing the populace. Best we can do is a few old blankets coated in smallpox...

A secret joy of mine: "Prehistoric battlefields" They're just so damn few confirmed ones to be able to figure out wtf was going on. Where are the darn giant-ground-sloth-shock-cavalry! Sure, they're slow... But, when they get there, wooo boy, watch out!

I keep forgetting you guys don't have much of a past, just a few hundred years or so, where as ours goes back thousands of years.

[Antilogic]

where I am... Wish I could email the UK some rain in exchange for real clear night or two.

Sorry we are currently behind schedule ourselves.

I can offer you some never-ending light drizzle in about 3 months time?

[Hank001]

felter says:

I keep forgetting you guys don't have much of a past, just a few hundred years or so, where as ours goes back thousands of years.

Well truth be told so does ours. Only they weren't us. Back to what Morkonan said about passing out infected blankets...

I guess you could say were all America's version of what the Romans did over there... (Then the Danes, French, etc) or the English did where you are.


Edit:

Antilogic:

I can offer you some never-ending light drizzle in about 3 months time?

Pass.

[pjknibbs]

Anyway, it's darn cool stuff. I'm an 'Murican... So, our "archeological" stuff is limited to ancient Indian monuments, arrowheads, some pottery, a few preserved bits and pieces where humidity just plain "doesn't go" and some interesting Viking stuff that people constantly argue about.

I dunno, some of the early colonisation history of America is quite fascinating in itself--for example, the Lost Colony of Roanoke. If any archaeological evidence of what happened *there* ever turns up then I think it would be an amazing discovery. I also find it interesting to see what can be found in really old houses, which admittedly you don't have so many of!

[Morkonan]

Anyway, it's darn cool stuff. I'm an 'Murican... So, our "archeological" stuff is limited to ancient Indian monuments, arrowheads, some pottery, a few preserved bits and pieces where humidity just plain "doesn't go" and some interesting Viking stuff that people constantly argue about.

I dunno, some of the early colonisation history of America is quite fascinating in itself--for example, the Lost Colony of Roanoke. If any archaeological evidence of what happened *there* ever turns up then I think it would be an amazing discovery. I also find it interesting to see what can be found in really old houses, which admittedly you don't have so many of!

We do have a lot of mysteries like that and, admittedly, we do have some "pre-historical" sites which are pretty interesting.

It's just that we lack the written, actual "historical", records when compared to the accumulated "historical record" of Europe et al. Of course that doesn't mean that nothing was going on in the Americas or in North America specifically, it's just that there's not enough recorded history to make sense of it all.

https://livability.com/topics/things-to ... in-america

Some pretty decently sized ancient civilizations, there.

Recently, there were some discoveries revolving around a pre-history city of one or another ancient culture that was in North America, but I can't remember the darn name or where it is. ("Up North" is actually a specific, unspecific, direction to a Southerner like myself...) Anyway, the size of that city is remarkable, IIRC, and could have housed a lot more people than just about any comparable site in the Americas at its time. (ie: Friggin big with evidence of a highly developed culture.)

[clakclak]

While IGN is dealing with plagarism in their Video Game Reviews and Intern named Max working for the German Games Review Show Game Two shows how mutch passion one can put into video games with his artistic paean to Alan Wake 2. The audio is German but the visuals alone are pretty impressiv considering that this short clip was produced for a weekly games journal that gets around 50.000 to 100.000 views.

[Morkonan]

While IGN is dealing with plagarism in their Video Game Reviews

Wow... That's pretty darn dumb. How in the word did the guy think he could virtually copy someone else's review and slap his name on it? Forget just the legal problems with that, but what about the ethical problems with essentially renaming someone else's content as your own?

and Intern named Max working for the German Games Review Show Game Two shows how mutch passion one can put into video games with his artistic paean to Alan Wake 2. The audio is German but the visuals alone are pretty impressiv considering that this short clip was produced for a weekly games journal that gets around 50.000 to 100.000 views.

I love fan-made stuff like that. I don't even know the Alan Wake series or storyline, but that had great production value and a lot of love went into it, I'm sure. (Did one of those lamp posts "wobble," though? )

[Hank001]

When is some bright and savvy X3 or X4 player going to live stream games on YouTube? Yes it's getting old but they'd have a good sized following once word got around. (You'd think).

[felter]

While IGN is dealing with plagarism in their Video Game Reviews

I don't get that site, why take up a quarter of the screen with a big black bar at the top of it.

As for Filip Miucin and his plagiarism, it turns out it is not his first time for doing so and it looks like there is at least another 2 reviews from his past that also reek of plagiarism. He also did a video reply to show his side of the story, a video that has since been taken down. YongYea does a good write up on it and is worth looking at.

[clakclak]

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and Intern named Max working for the German Games Review Show Game Two shows how mutch passion one can put into video games with his artistic paean to Alan Wake 2. The audio is German but the visuals alone are pretty impressiv considering that this short clip was produced for a weekly games journal that gets around 50.000 to 100.000 views.

I love fan-made stuff like that. I don't even know the Alan Wake series or storyline, but that had great production value and a lot of love went into it, I'm sure. (Did one of those lamp posts "wobble," though? )

Yes it did.

There is a small, very small chance that even that detail was deliberate, as the guy before that scene says "We are all attached to strings, like puppets". However it seems more likely that the props they had simply were not very rigid.

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As for Filip Miucin and his plagiarism, it turns out it is not his first time for doing so and it looks like there is at least another 2 reviews from his past that also reek of plagiarism. He also did a video reply to show his side of the story, a video that has since been taken down. YongYea does a good write up on it and is worth looking at.

I can recommand that summary you linked to anyone interested, even if I didn't watch all of it as I had already watched the Internet Today summary.

When is some bright and savvy X3 or X4 player going to live stream games on YouTube? Yes it's getting old but they'd have a good sized following once word got around. (You'd think).

Do you really think so? X3 wouldn't be a game I would watch. Most of the time you are just looking at spreadsheets.

[pjknibbs]

Wow... That's pretty darn dumb. How in the word did the guy think he could virtually copy someone else's review and slap his name on it?

Well, he managed to get away with it for a surprisingly long time! I guess he thought because he was nicking his scripts from minor Youtube channels and altering them slightly that no-one would notice.

[RegisterMe]

Remarkable, and a good news story .

[clakclak]

Remarkable, and a good news story .

The paramedic wasn't having any of the news reporters shit.

[Chips]

"I was sitting at the back of the deck..." - erm, yeah. "I was pissed and vomiting over the railing and fell from being paralytic".

She's very lucky indeed. She wouldn't have had any life vest, but staying 10 hours in water is remarkable - but being spotted is even more so O_O

[RegisterMe]

That was my first thought too Chips, but if she was that drunk how likely is it that she would have lasted ten hours in the water?