nudge

Haha

ExoMars rover has a name!

This is the old car with the new front wing, right? Would love the black & gold colour scheme but it looks a bit messy with the team name in white and that atrocious "PEAK" thing on the side of the rear wing. Otherwise it reminds me of Lotus!

Of course it is, that's why books like this that try to clear existing misconceptions and challenge false paradigms with new archaeological facts and discoveries are important. The thing is, even without political meddling with the past, we still don't know many things about the world and cultures that lived centuries ago and many numbers related to that time are just rough estimates so I don't think the word "imagined" is so wrong here. It's one thing to understand that the image of the Americas being largely uninhabited mass of land with just a few wandering savages is just plainly wrong and was used to justify the means for political goals and expansion etc, but it's a different thing altogether to try and accurately estimate the actual size of native populations in cities and settlements at that that time. I mean we are still digging up "new" cities with estimated population of millions and extended trade networks that we didn't know even existed. New evidence is being added to what we know continuously so previously held views are being challenged one way or another as the overall pool of knowledge grows.

How about you read the actual book instead of nitpicking on the words used in the description of it?...

So many idiots around, we're running out of villages.

Good for him but what does it have to do with any of this? the book I'm reading is not a discussion on who discovered or theoretically hypothesised the existence of the Americas; it's an anthropological study of indigenous people revealing that the level of cultural advancement and the settlement range was higher and broader than previously imagined, as opposed to the widely spread view that the natives were primitive savages living in wilderness.

Just watched the pilot episode of Hanna, a TV show remake of the movie of the same name... Full series coming out in March. I enjoyed the movie so gave the pilot episode a go and am looking forward to the rest now!

Haas will be the first team to reveal their new livery tomorrow!

Worth mentioning that she originally overstayed her visa by almost 6 months, refused to pay the fine, and then insulted and slapped immigration officials for doing their job. Oh and then she failed to appear in court, and started insulting and kicking officers again. What a silly entitled cow.

Finished both now. Absolutely loved Kimi's book; the only complain is that it's too short haha. Great read. Chasing New Horizons is a very good read as well. Very informative and gives a unique insider insight into the Pluto mission. Currently listening to an audiobook: Currently reading: Been recommended it quite a long time ago; finally got it and started reading it today... In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.

Not my cup of tea but you go ahead and enjoy it...

Happy birthday Bob Marley

Happy birthday!

You're evil.

Sauber will be the best of the rest this season

Happy for Hartley!

Yeah don't worry; it's just that the Brits haven't caught up with continental engineering innovations yet...

Certainly not. Had the same type of windows in Lithuania, Netherlands, and elsewhere in Europe as well as some hotels in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

I fucking hate pointless small talk. But the German way is still better than superficial niceties that no one gives a fuck about (I'm looking at you Americans)

Not THAT far haha. Done Taris, Dantooine, Tatooine and Kashyyyk so far and collected 3 Star Maps... Currently on Manaan. I have a feeling I'll have to fight Darth Bandon (Malek's apprentice...) there.

No worries my day off is over and I'm back to work anyway

I swear KOTOR is too addictive... My first day off this week and instead of going out and doing some other things I planned to I'm running around looking for Star Maps and helping Wookie rebels on Kashyyyk until 5am...

Researchers develop a steam-powered spacecraft that can hop between asteroids By mining asteroids to obtain its fuel, the World Is Not Enough (WINE) spacecraft could theoretically explore our solar system forever. Read more here: https://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/02/researchers-develop-a-steam-powered-spacecraft-that-can-hop-between-asteroids