I’m not sure if you’re referring to the Conquistadors, but this site was abandoned quite a long time before that.
All the Upano artefacts dated by Rostain’s team are older than 1500 years, however, suggesting the settlements in the valley were abandoned after this time, long before the colonial era. Why isn’t clear, but the team has found layers of volcanic ash, so it is possible a series of eruptions forced people to leave the valley.
widespread digital competence in the scholarly community
Tell me you have never done IT work in higher ed without telling me…
Poop rag
“without non-penetrative” == “with penetrative”, so I think they’ve gotten it reversed. They’re the only ones to mate with non-penetrative sex.
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It’s not even hypothetical, as simulations go; Eve Online does this in-game with a Time Dilation system that dynamically slows down the tick rate in systems that are under heavy traffic, to ease server load.
Here is their demo video of it, from WAAAAY back when when they first put it in.
We’ve scanned the sky for decades and haven’t found evidence of even a single culture, not within hundreds of millions of light years from us. That’s pretty special.
Actually, it mostly just means our detection methods probably still suck. We are still just trying to identify biomarkers by light refraction, which not only requires that the orbital body transit a star in our line of sight, but that it be large and close enough to register refraction through the atmosphere. And that’s pretty new. The old methods were trying to intercept radio and other em signals.
“Decades” ago we had identified 1 or 2 potential planets in the “Goldilocks Zone”, and people declared that it was in fact exceedingly rare for a solar system to even have planets, much less planets in the habitable zone. Now we have identified a LOT more potentials, nevermind planets.
You’re looking through heavily dirtied goggles at a room that could be full of people and saying, “I don’t see anyone, so I must be alone. I must be special.”
This is very much a situation in which the “lack of evidence is not evidence of a lack” rule applies.
“Just months after satisfying their craving for Tide pods…”
Micro plastics are going to end up being the leaded gasoline of our era.
Sure, but there is no evidence of that here.