Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
The fact that you stopped first makes it hilarious, i think. The thought of it made me laugh out loud.
Pulling up to a stoplight and then seeing a potato when and where you’d expect traffic is way funnier than just seeing a potato unexpectedly.
If i remember right, ball lightning was confirmed to be real after it appeared on a plane that was full of physicists going to a conference. I think they reported it moving slowly in relation to them.
I don’t get all the moose and ship references, but in my family we call this kind of thing a moose story.
Back when my uncle was like 7, in fairbanks alaska, he came home from school and said he saw a moose. That’s nice, everyone agreed. And he walked right up to it. Oh did you? And punched it right in the nose. No, you didn’t though, did you?
60+ years later he still maintains that happened.
Garbage clickbait headline 😮💨.
“Some time before sapiens seems to have expanded into this particular area” is not at all the same as “long before humans existed”.
Neanderthals are literally our ancestors, they have everything we think of as human.
There was a now debunked idea that symbolic thought emerged in europe ~40kya. The explosion of symbolic art we see then is in part because of preservation factors and how well studied europe is.
It’s fairly well established that non-sapiens humans were capable of symbolic thought. No one is surprised that neanderthals made cool art.