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Ocean Energy comes in many packages. Numerous YouTube videos proclaim them now.. Japan is surrounded with Ocean Power however the "grab" is they need it FAST like in Yesterday.
While many Ocean Energy packages to choose from, which one could be implemented the quickest to bring the Japanese people back to their former great selves PLUS move them onto the FAST TRACK rolling forward?
Do the Japanese choose more nuclear power plants?! No.
Do the Japanese revert back to using crude oil and {ugh!} COAL?
There is one Ocean Energy just brought to the public consciousness in November 2010 & first posted on December 10 2010 => http://current.com/technology/92858210_ocean-energy-fishing-8-tons-per-square-inch-cruise-line-fuel-that-never-runs-out-ever.htm
Harnessing the 2,4,6,8 tons-per-square-inch pressure is a harnessing of EARTH GRAVITY itself!!! A continuous container conveyor system going from the shoreline down into deep water! Then doing a turn and returning back with CANNED ENERGY and ZERO POLLUTION GENERATED.
Energy "fruit" they can pick from the vines 24 hours a day nonstop. They have to do a fast recovery or they remain blasted backwards in Time into the Stone Age from whence they came.
Stone Age crud or Ocean Age natural?
The battle of wits has begun.Ocean Energy comes in many packages. Numerous YouTube videos proclaim them now.. Japan... more
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The genus Homo is no longer the sole primate lineage known to have used stone tools to consume the meat of large mammals. New research pushes that skill back nearly a million years.
Large fossilized animal bones with ends shattered for sucking out marrow and cut marks deliberately made with sharp stone tools have been found just a few hundred feet from a previously uncovered Australopithecus aferensis skeleton. The bones are roughly 3.4 million years old, and connect the earliest evidence for using stone tools and eating large game to our Lucy-like ancestors.
Previously, the earliest evidence for using tools to cut the meat off large animals was attributed to early Homo in the Gona region of Ethiopia around 2.5 million years ago. This find from a different region in Ethiopia, Dikika, shows the behavior was around at least a million years earlier.
'It means almost everything to be able to use stone tools," said paleontologist Zeray Alemseged of the California Academy of Sciences, co-author of the discovery announced August 12 in Nature. "The picture that we're going to paint of Australopithecus is being transformed completely. We can now imagine them walking around carrying their tools. Tools that were the precursor of every tool that we have today."
"Australopithecus was a very primitive, ape-like early human," said biological anthropologist Craig Stanford at University of Southern California, who edited a book on meat eating and human evolution. "The fact that they were using tools and eating meat indicates this was something that was widespread very early in human history."
The ability to carve meat off large mammal carcasses likely put Australopithecus in competition with dangerous scavengers, Alemseged says. It is unlikely they were hunting for the large game because their body shape would not have allowed them to run fast, which is necessary to chase down an antelope or similar sized animal.
But scavenging large animals still provides access to high quality, high calorie foods that likely enabled Australopithecus to venture much further out of the forest environment into the open grassland than otherwise possible on a diet of mostly of fruit, leaves and tubers.
The two cut bones found both came from mammals. One is a rib from a cow-sized animal, and the other is a femur shaft from an antelope-sized animal. Analysis of the bones showed the cut marks were created before the bones fossilized, eliminating the possibility the marks were made recently.
While it is impossible to tell from the scratches whether Australopithecus was making stone tools or using naturally sharp rocks, the lack of adequate rock material in the immediate area where the bones were found suggests they were carrying the stones around with them from one place to another.
However, no one has yet found the stone tools themselves or where they could have come from, and at least one scientist finds this reason to be skeptical of the claims made by the discoverers.
"The fact that no single sharp-edged flaked stone has been recovered from the site makes such a claim doubtful of any hominid involvement," said paleontologist Sileshi Semaw of the Stone Age Institute, who discovered what was previously the oldest evidence for stone tool from the Gona region. "Researchers who study bone surface modifications from archeological sites have shown that fresh bones trampled by animals can create marks that mimic stone tool cut marks."
"The next stage will be to really go out there and scrutinize the site to see if the tools are indeed there," said Alemseged in response. "But I wouldn't be surprised if the stone tools were archeologically invisible to us. They might have been using the tools in a sporadic way."The genus Homo is no longer the sole primate lineage known to have used stone tools to... more
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In terms of our civilization and history, we ("we" in the so-called western world) need to keep in mind while reading this article is that our chidlren are still taught today that first came the Egyptians, followed by the Greeks and then the Romans and - poof - here we are. Roughly speaking, 12,000 years ago is about the timeframe when Plato said Atlantis disappeared. It is also the timeframe of mass catastrophes, sparked by astronomical impact, which caused the glaciers to melt rather quickly and form massive glacial lakes, whose mile-high ice dams eventually collapsed, sweeping into the ocean all before them.In terms of our civilization and history, we ("we" in the so-called western... more
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"Remember when life was simpler, and diets weren’t full of processed food and chemicals? No, not the 1950s. Increasingly, we are developing nostalgia for a much earlier epoch: the Pleistocene, when humans lived in small hunter-gatherer groups and didn’t worry about high cholesterol...A recent cartoon shows one of those evolutionary progressions — ape to man walking upright to man slouched over a computer — with the caption “Somewhere, something has gone terribly wrong... In short, we have what the anthropologist Leslie Aiello called “paleofantasies.” She was referring to stories about human evolution based on limited fossil evidence, but the term applies just as well to nostalgia for the very old days as a touchstone for the way life is supposed to be and why it sometimes feels so out of balance...""Remember when life was simpler, and diets weren’t full of processed food... more
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(CNN) -- Archaeologists in Russia have discovered an "extraordinary" group of Stone Age artworks which appear to have been carefully buried in pits and covered with mammoth bones, the researchers announced this week in a newly published paper.
At least some of the 21,000-22,000-year-old objects appear to have been regarded as magical, the scientists surmise.
The collection includes the only example of engravings of images found to date at the site -- what appear to be three overlapping mammoths only a few centimeters long and carved onto the rib of a mammoth.
"The main lines of the image are clear, not ragged; they were made by confident, unbroken movements," Hizri Amirkhanov and Sergey Lev write.
The carving may have been part of a hunting ritual, Lev told CNN.
The objects they describe in their new paper "show an extraordinary repertoire of incised carving on mammoth ivory plaques and carving in the round, including representations of women and large mammals, and geometric decoration on bone utensils," they write.
They also uncovered two female figures, including one 16.6 centimeters tall with a head they call particularly accurate in shape. The figures, which Lev called Venus statuettes, had been carefully placed in pits and surrounded with colored sand, Lev said.
The archaeologists uncovered the objects in 2005 at a site called Zaraysk, which was discovered in 1980. The site is about 100 miles southeast of Moscow.
Researchers have been excavating the site since 1995, and have found a necklace made of teeth of the arctic fox and a carving of a bison made from mammoth ivory.
Zaraysk is the northernmost known location for a style of Stone Age artwork called Kostenski-Avdeevo after two other Russian locations where art of that type has been found.
Lev said the Zaraysk site was on a par with Kostenski and Avdeevo "in terms of the splendor and variety of its art."
The site dates from the Upper Paleolithic period, which began about 40,000 years ago and lasted until roughly 10,000 years ago.
Amirkhanov and Lev's article, "New Finds of Art Objects from the Upper Palaeolithic Site of Zaraysk, Russia," is to be published in the December issue of the magazine Antiquities, a York, England-based journal that describes itself as a quarterly review of world archaeology. A version of their article appeared on the journal's website on Monday; the print version is due out soon, reviews editor Madeleine Hummler said.
The researchers are associated with the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.(CNN) -- Archaeologists in Russia have discovered an "extraordinary" group... more
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Archaeologists in Russia have discovered an "extraordinary" group of Stone Age artworks which appear to have been carefully buried in pits and covered with mammoth bones, the researchers announced this week in a newly published paper.
At least some of the 21,000-22,000-year-old objects appear to have been regarded as magical, the scientists surmise.
The collection includes the only example of engravings of images found to date at the site -- what appear to be three overlapping mammoths only a few centimeters long and carved onto the rib of a mammoth.
"The main lines of the image are clear, not ragged; they were made by confident, unbroken movements," Hizri Amirkhanov and Sergey Lev write.Archaeologists in Russia have discovered an "extraordinary" group of Stone... more
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Rare artefacts from the late Stone Age have been uncovered in Russia.
The site at Zaraysk, 150km south-east of Moscow, has yielded figurines and carvings on mammoth tusks.
The finds also included a cone-shaped object whose function, the authors report in the journal Antiquity, "remains a puzzle".
Such artistic artefacts have been found in the nearby regions of Kostenki and Avdeevo, but this is the first such discovery at Zaraysk.
The Upper Palaeolithic is the latter part of the Stone Age, during which humans made the transition from functional tool-making to art and adornment.
The new artefacts, discovered by Hizri Amirkhanov and Sergey Lev of the Russian Academy of Sciences, include a mammoth rib inscribed with what appear to be three mammoths, a small bone engraved with a cross-hatch pattern, and two human figurines presumed to be female.
Such "Venus" statuettes have been found in locations ranging from the mountains of Spain as far east as Siberia, but their cultural significance remains a point of debate among anthropologists.
At Zaraysk, the two figurines were found carefully buried in storage pits. Underneath each was a round deposit of fine sand toward the south; toward the north, there was a deposit of red ochre - an iron-based pigment.
Each of the figurines had been covered with the shoulder-blade of a mammoth.
One is presumed to be finished and stands at a height of nearly 17 cm (6.7 in); the other is clearly unfinished and about half as big.
However, both resemble examples of such statuettes found at the Avdeevo site to the south-west, suggesting cultural links between the two.
"This collection of artefacts is spectacular in a number of ways, not only for the range of representations of both humanistic and animal but also for the range of materials that is used," says Jeffrey Brantingham, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"These finds are really incredibly rare, and they offer a unique picture into human Upper Palaeolithic life."
Also among the finds was an object carved from mammoth ivory, shaped like a cone with its top removed. The cone is densely ornamented and has a hole running through its centre.
The authors note that the object is unique among Palaeolithic artefacts. "The function of this decorated object remains a puzzle," they say.Rare artefacts from the late Stone Age have been uncovered in Russia.
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A Stone Age massacre has provided evidence of the earliest known nuclear family. The evidence also suggests that, just like today, some early humans lived in blended families.
Archaeologists have long suspected that people lived in nuclear families at least as far back as the Stone Age. The idea even has a foothold in popular culture - remember Fred, Wilma and Pebbles Flintstone?
But the evidence for Stone Age nuclear families has been flimsy, mainly based on extrapolations from how we live now, and speculations about relationships between adults and children found buried together.
"We have been inferring the past from the present, but it wasn't necessarily true. Now, we have tested the hypothesis and found that at least one Stone Age nuclear family existed," says Wolfgang Haak who led a team at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
The new evidence comes from a detailed analysis of the remains of 13 people, buried in four gravesites in Eulau in Germany, dating to the later Stone Age, 4600 years ago.A Stone Age massacre has provided evidence of the earliest known nuclear family. The... more
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University of Wollongong researchers have used cutting edge dating technology to shed new light on one of the world's oldest archaeological puzzles.
Dr Zenobia Jacobs and Professor Richard Roberts used soil samples from nine different African archaeological sites to determine the age of a series of artefacts that have mystified archaeologists for more than 100 years.
The UOW researchers led an international team of scientists for the study, funded by the Australian Research Council, which attempted to discover when the finely crafted stone tools, weapons and symbolic items, dubbed the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries, first appear in southern Africa.
The stone tools were far superior in design to anything else crafted by humans during the same period in the Stone Age.
Dr Jacobs said both the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries occurred in the Middle Stone Age, which ranges from the emergence of homo sapiens about 200,000 years ago, through to the evolution of fully "modern" human behaviour and the exodus of people from Africa about 140,000 years later. University of Wollongong researchers have used cutting edge dating technology to shed... more
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An Egyptian news agency that transmitted footage of protesters tearing down a portrait of the president was fined $27,000 for operating unlicensed equipment, and its owner said Sunday he was targeted as a warning to other media.
A judge on Sunday upheld a complaint by the government against Nader Gohar, head of the Cairo News Company. The complaint came shortly after CNC broadcast footage from Al-Jazeera English in April showing the anti-government protesters.
Journalists have long complained of harassment by Egyptian security, particularly in recent weeks as they have been prevented from covering a series of events, including a deadly rock slide, a fire at the parliament building and the brutal killing of a pop singer.
"We're the largest company in our field," said Gohar. "When they hit on us, the others will behave."
CNC provides filming equipment and personnel to news agencies in Egypt then transmits their footage.
In September, a Cairo appeals court upheld a guilty verdict against a newspaper editor who wrote stories questioning President Hosni Mubarak's health and sentenced him to two months imprisonment.
The London-based human rights group Amnesty International had denounced that trial, calling it part of a "pattern" by Egyptian authorities of bringing criminal charges against journalists to "chill" media freedom.
"I see this as stupidity," said Gohar about the crackdown on journalists in Egypt. "The more freedom they give us, the better the government will look. Now the government's image is very bad."
Gohar said he's lost 70 percent of his business because of limitations placed on his work by the government after the complaint was filed.An Egyptian news agency that transmitted footage of protesters tearing down a portrait... more
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ATHENS (AFP) – Archaeologists in northern Greece have found the remains of a Stone Age homestead left intact for about 6,000 years, the culture ministry said on Thursday.
"This is a rare case where the antiquities remained undisturbed by farming or other activities for around 6,000 years," the ministry said in a statement.
The dwelling had been destroyed in a fire but its residents had time to flee taking most of their valuable stone tools with them, the ministry said.
Instead, archaeologists found a large number of clay vessels, millstones, some stone tools and two home furnaces.
The rectangular 58-square-metre structure was built in the fourth millennium BC. It stood on stilts, and its outer wooden frame was filled with a mixture of branches and reeds covered in clay, while straw mats lay on the floor.
The homestead had indoor areas dedicated to the preparation of cereals and the storage of farm produce.
It was discovered near the town of Aridaia in central Macedonia prefecture between March and July during works to upgrade the local water mains network.
ATHENS (AFP) – Archaeologists in northern Greece have found the remains of a... more
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Some 5,000 years ago, a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.
The unremarkable journey through the Schnidejoch pass, a lofty trail 9,000 feet above sea level, has been a boon to scientists but it would never have emerged if climate change were not melting the nearby glacier.
So far, 300 objects dating as far back as the Neolithic or New Stone Age -- about 4,000 B.C. in Europe -- to the later Bronze and Iron Ages and the Medieval era have been found in the site's former icefields.
"We know now that the discoveries on Schnidejoch are the oldest of this kind ever made in the Alps," said Albert Hafner, an expert with the archaeology service in Bern canton.
They have allowed researchers not only to piece together snapshots of life way back when, but also to shed light on climate fluctuations in the past 6,500 years -- and hopefully shed light on what is happening now.
"For us, the site itself is the most important find because we have this correlation between climate change and archaeological objects," Hafner said.
"We know that people were only able to walk on this site when it was relatively warm," said Martin Grosjean, executive director of a national network called Swiss Climate Research. "When it was too cold, the glacier advanced and it was not a passable route."
Scientists have long known there were periods of warmer weather in the region but the artifacts allowed them to identify the exact years, when the site would have been passable on foot.Some 5,000 years ago, a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps,... more
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