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Like when you take a step back and think about it. I was sat in my garden this morning having a coffee, that's probably not that odd. In nature, drinking some ground coffee beans mixed with hot water and a bit of milk, consumed from a ceramic vessel.
Then a plane flies over, RAF. A fricking metal can carrying people through the sky at hundreds of miles per hour. A plane designed for warfare as well. Mad innit, that we even have planes, and that we need to make some to help stop other people killing us. What a world when the concept of a 'defence budget' is so normal.
Inside to my office, open a laptop to count some numbers for a company who sells some stuff. Do that for 40 hours of my week so I can get some money to give to another company who sells some stuff that I want or need. Still feeling slightly annoyed that 11 chumps from my country couldn't kick a ball in a net more times than 11 chumps from another country.
The whole thing is weird innit.
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How weird is society? on 18:35 - Jun 21 with 537 views
How weird is society? on 16:16 - Jun 21 by StokieBlue
In reality it was very expensive and there wasn't much value in going back at the time.
Now that science and technology have moved on it's much more viable to do it cheaply and regularly and there is a scramble to get various resources that exist there (such as Helium 3).
Also, the aliens that live there warned us off.
SB
Those Clangers always look quite friendly, maybe the soup dragon just hates golf.
Wow, Ce'ide fields link. ( I've found either an extension of Ce'ide fields or a very similar field system under the bog all the way up in South Sligo)
Possibly at the beginning, the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition and early Neolithic. I think by the later Neolithic the move away from a mobile lifestyle to something more sedentary and larger more permanent sites perhaps makes warfare more tempting. Though could be increased population ( Mesolithic population in Ireland was tiny) that drives it. I know the bronze age and Iron age are generally more linked to warrior cultures but I have a horrible feeling the late Neolithic at least may have been quite similar. To be honest barbed and tanged flint arrowheads from the late Neolithic seem much more common on the ground then similar objects from a later time. Though they coulda just been mad for hunting
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How weird is society? on 19:35 - Jun 21 with 494 views
How weird is society? on 16:52 - Jun 21 by StokieBlue
That is an interesting debate because one could make a good case that a lot of technology was invented because we are so warlike.
SB
I was thinking more about how many setbacks there have been - for example the late bronze age collapse - if events like that hadn't happened, and humanity had built on a steady base.
The last 30 years have also seen pretty rapid technology advances which weren't war-driven.
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How weird is society? on 19:38 - Jun 21 with 473 views
How weird is society? on 15:47 - Jun 21 by Illinoisblue
Off on a slight LeTissier tangent, how is it we haven’t been back to the moon in over 50 years? With all the technological advances since then we should be up there every week. Wass gorn on buh?
According to NASA we destroyed that 1960's technology and it's a painful process to build it back up again.
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