Satellites Expose 8,000 Years of Civilization 138
ananyo writes "By combining spy-satellite photos obtained in the 1960s with modern multispectral images and digital maps of Earth's surface, researchers have created a new method for mapping large-scale patterns of human settlement. The approach was used to map some 14,000 settlement sites spanning eight millennia in 23,000 square kilometres of northeastern Syria — part of the fertile crescent of the Middle East. Traditional archaeology has focused on the big features such as cities or palaces but the new technique uncovers networks of small settlements, revealing migration patterns and sparking renewed speculation about the importance of water to city development."
Re:doh! (Score:5, Funny)
How are young earthers going to explain this one?
Eight millennia - that's six since creation, and two more into the future.
Re:doh! (Score:5, Funny)
Look guys, stop messin with my friends. Here's proof:
[root@earth-sim173-265 ~]# uptime
12:17:09 up 2,210,805 days, 20:27, 7,029,298,112 users, load average: 0.90, 0.90, 0.95
[root@earth-sim173-265 ~]#
Now leave me alone, and get back to learning how to be humans/gods without killing each other and destroying the universe.
Re:doh! (Score:4, Funny)
"While I have been apostate for more than a decade"
Congratulations on your first decade of sanity.
Re:doh! (Score:5, Funny)
---- Someone better go read Rene Descartes....
That pedantic ol' windbag? I think not.
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