Happy Sunday boys and girls

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Happy Sunday!

@dignity , Warren has a point about the reptiles mate. Saint Paddy kicked the snakes out of Ireland, who’s to say that’s nota metaphor for him leading a rebellion against the lizard alien monkey tinkerering slavemasters?

@warzan, so what you are saying is that the population of Northern Ireland are genetically modified ex slaves who overthrew their reptilian alien masters. Have you been watching V the Series lately?

Also, with your interest in exploring space for the betterment on mankind, you need to become an Assgaurdian as well as Justin, cus that’s what the founders of Asgardia are all about.

Putting my archaeologist hat back on (it’s not a fedora but it is broad-brimmed…) Sumer was o the first known urban civilisations in Southern Mesopotamia (modern Southern Iraq). It has been suggested that the first settlements sprang up in this area between 5500 and 4000 BC, whilst the first examples of Sumerian Cuneiform writing (some of the earliest for which we have physical remnants) date to 3000 BC.
There is some theory that Sumerians would have populated the area we now know as the Persian Gulf, before it flooded at the end of the last ice age (in much the same way that the remains of settlements have been found on the bed of the North Sea).
The Sumerian civilisation existed broadly concurrent with the Akkadian Empire, from whom the legend of Gilgamesh (the first recorded heroic myth) originated.

An important note is that whilst today the Tigris/Euphrates Valley is largely difficult for humans to inhabit if you travel too far beyond the banks of the rivers, in the periods Sumer was ascendant much of the globe was coming out of an ice age so this area would have been temperate and lush, as such became the forge for much of the farming techniques that laid the foundation for the empires & cultures that flourished around the Mediterranean and spread all the way up to these isles….

Nice show guys. Sumer was formed by what we believe were Asian migrants in 5000 BC long after other tribes already inhabbiting the area. The reason we know so much about the Sumerians is that we have a lot of Cuniform tablets from them. (If you think chicken scrawl handwriting is bad check out Cuniform yesh).

I agree with Justin in that we don’t know 100% of human DNA and genes from that long ago and the fact we still have an appendix shows this. Remember evolution doesn’t take the best approach it takes the easiest so if it is easier to destroy a negative/positive than convert energy that would probably be the easiest aproach.

If you want a cool conspiracy (and some cool historical knowledge) look up Peter Stuart Ney. Ney was Napoleons Cavalry commander at Waterloo and was executed by the king. However the firing squad was all men picked by him, he gave te order himself and he did not get the usual pistol to the head. His grave was dug up later and no body was found.

In America a year later a man named Peter (Ney’s fathers name) Stuart (Mothers Maiden Name) Ney arrived in America who claimed to be a French veteran and was a school teacher who travelled around never staying too long in one place. When he heard Napoleon had died he tried to kill himself by stabbing himself in the neck but didn’t die. When he died years later his last words were “I am Ney of France”. So the question is. How did Ney get out of France? Who helped him? Did he make a deal since he was the one who ordered the insane unsupportted charges at Waterloo which destroyed the French Cavalry? The Cavalry charge was different in that it was unsupported and unusual.

Given the size of the human population and the length of time we have now been around there really should be more genetic mutations than there are. Well apart from colour and some simple gene changes there is buggar all really which is highly unusual

Hi guys, great show again.
Just one thing, Ben AoS is not Warhammer.
I thought people had got over this and had learned that they were two separate games.

To add to what Warren was saying about: that we are gene slaves of aliens.
We as a species have around 3700 fatal defects in our gene code. The next closest animal to us on fatal flaws has 70. Nothing evolved naturally can have 3700 fatal errors Also this kinda kills the theory that we are made by a perfect being/God. unless he was a jobs worth intern working late on Friday rushing to get out of the office to get to a music festival for the week end or English 🙂

@warzan, of course you get the Rh-Blood type system in other species. At least in rhesus monkeys, where it first was discovered.

Also, if I remember correctly from my biology classes twenty years ago, the Rh- mother / Rh+ child problems arise only during the second pregnancy with such a pair. In any case, the child is not killed as you suggested, but the mother receives treatment to cope with the antibodies produced.

Finally, if you get a spike in giantism its just as likely to get a spike in Rh-, since you already explained that the gene pool is rather small and does not mix a lot. From an evolutionary standpoint the Rh-blood system is older that only in humans and there is no reason for the Rh- to die out (but only to get a minority of the population), since only the second pregnancy causes problems and the first child will have both the Rh+ and the Rh- genome. so it is there to be given to the next generation.

Happy Sunday, I am with Justin so that makes three of us apparently.

We could speed up the e-paper development with that money.

Regarding rhesus negative. My wife is rhesus negative, I am rhesus positive. The baby ended up been rhesus positive so it’s not an alien baby. If there was a bleed between the baby in the womb and the mother then she would have made antibodies and in some cases this could lead to a miscarriage. On the first baby the the risk is not as high. It’s the second baby where the risk is higher because the antibodies have been established. (Only if it’s positive and not negative)
The risks are not very high as there are an number of things that have to be in place for her body to attack the fetus. Although there is an “Anti D” injection that she is required to take to prevent this from happening.
On another note rhesus negative is known as the universal downer. This means that their blood can be given to anybody else that requires it. The down side is that the only blood you can receive is rhesus negative. Also certain rare types of Rhesus negative can be given to babies as well.

@dignity
Beyond the simple survival reason, we are after all on a single rock one random catastrophe way from extinction, space exploration has delivered more technology to solve issues we have and make life better than you realise, here is a small list from NASA, but if you really look its just the tip of the iceberg, https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html .

All there technologies come from solving issues we face from going to space and more will be found and more solutions will be created that will inevitably be brought back on the global population.

@warzan
It is a countries responsibility, yes, corruption, greed etr limit our budget for exploration, but no corporation is rich enouph (let alone willing) to tackle the risk and expense of space exploration (or any public infrastructure really), I do believe though that our biggest issue with space exploration is how reluctant is the western world to accept deaths, especially on the space exploration front, that and of course that the Space exploration fights for funds with everything else.

I’m quite pleased to hear about the Harry Potter miniatures game. My wife is absolutely HP obsessed with HP. She’s a big board gamer but I’ve never had any success in convincing her to try wargames.

When I showed her this, it piqued her interest and I think this will finally let me show her the awesomeness of wargaming.

I’ve already started looking at how to build a table for the game but I’m waiting to see what kind of game they go for. Obviously if it’s a boardgame, terrain is pointless…