"and then I'll put more guards on the guards!"

What's interesting here is to compare with thoughts circulating in my mind a few days before today when I first read this.

This seems compelling to me because I had intended to write about those thoughts in recent days but then forgot and now this article reminds me.

Those of you following along at home know how I have discovered an unimaginable pattern in the daily routine of my life.

In recent days I imagined details about the distant history of this planet, of previous intelligent life on this forbidden planet, as it were.

I imagined that human life just almost the same as we are today existed a hundred million years ago on this planet.

Long before that was the arrival of some kind of super-intelligence, this "monolith" responsible for human being intelligence.

I considered the popular notion of ape-to-human evolution. I thought over how I believed that possibility, and still do, because all the scientists believe.

Then I considered another idea that formed in my mind. The idea that the human beings we all are (well, not me) did indeed evolve from apes, as the scientists tell us, but we evolved from apes on a different planet.

Somewhere I have read before that certain mainstream religious figures try to make the people who donate money to them believe that the Earth has existed for only a few thousand years.

I don't believe that. I have read that the Earth is about 5 billion years old and scientists predict the Earth has about another 5 billion years to live before the Sun kills it.

But I stated to wonder: if human beings were transplanted on this planet 10,000 years ago then how would anyone know about it today?

No one knows the truth. No one can know the truth.

So I started to think that the scientists describe the genetic similarity to modern primates and modern human beings because those were all created by the same super-intelligent beings and on different planets.

The modern primates here on this planet were created to eventually evolve into this planets' human beings.

The current human beings on this planet went through the same process of evolution but a catastrophe on that planet caused some of them to be transplanted to this planet where they could survive.

They arrived with no tools or technology. Perhaps that was 10,000 years ago on this planet.

Then I imagined, dimly, the scale of the time period of the age of this planet. If the human race rose and disappeared every 1 million years then that could happen 5,000 times during a 5 billion year period.

And I was thinking that human beings existed on this planet a hundred million years ago and lived not unlike those of us here today.

Their downfall was created by their minds. I started thinking the balance of their existence evil to this planet actually created the existence of the dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs chased down and ate every human being and turned to rubble their structures and technology.

We are now in that same phase.










http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150520/us-sci--ancient_tools-167c9fac7f.html

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Oldest known stone tools found in Kenya; makers not known

May 20, 1:32 PM (ET) [ Retrieved Wednesday 11:45 AM 20 May 2015 Pacific Time USA ]

By MALCOLM RITTER

NEW YORK (AP) — By taking a wrong turn in a dry riverbed in Kenya, scientists discovered a trove of stone tools far older than any ever found before. Nobody knows who made them — or why.

At 3.3 million years old, they push back the record of stone tools by about 700,000 years. More significantly, they are half-a-million years older than any known trace of our own branch of the evolutionary tree.

Scientists have long thought that sharp-edged stone tools were made only by members of our branch, whose members are designated "Homo," like our own species, Homo sapiens. That idea has been questioned, and the new finding is a big boost to the argument that tool-making may have begun with smaller-brained forerunners instead.

The discovery was reported by Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University in New York and co-authors in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature. The find drew rave reviews from experts unconnected to the work.

"It really absolutely moves the beginnings of human technology back into a much more distant past, and a much different kind of ancestor than we've been thinking of," said anthropology professor Alison Brooks of George Washington University, who has examined some of the tools.

The authors have "opened a new window onto the human past, illuminating the work of the first tool-makers and raising as many questions as they have answered," said Eric Delson of Lehman College in New York.

And Frank Brown of the University of Utah, an expert in determining the age of fossils who has known about the discovery for a couple years and visited the site, said he is "still kind of staggered by it."

The Nature paper describes 149 stones and stone flakes found west of Lake Turkana in a remote area of northern Kenya. Most objects are "cores," which are stones that have been struck to break off sharp-edged flakes. Other stones appear to have been used as hammers or anvils.

Africa is where our own species first appeared, and it has long been a hotbed for finding fossils of our forerunners. The Kenyan site was discovered one day in July 2011, when Harmand, Lewis and a crew set out to survey one area and by accident ended up in another one. There were gullies and hillsides that seemed promising, so they looked around, Lewis recalled in a telephone interview.

Just before tea time, a team member spotted a stone tool on the ground. More quickly appeared. Excavations followed.

As stone tools go, the artifacts are remarkably big. On average, the cores stretch about 6 inches long and wide and weigh nearly 7 pounds, for example, while the flakes are up to 8 inches long.

Compared to the next-oldest-known tool artifacts, "these things are enormous," which adds to the mystery of what they were used for, said David Braun, a tool expert at George Washington.

Generally, ancient human relatives are thought to have used stone tools for hammering, such as for cracking nuts, and for their sharp edges, useful for butchering and skinning animal carcasses as well as cutting up tough plant material.

Experts said they were stumped about the purpose of the Kenyan tools. Harmand said she thinks the overall purpose was to make sharp-edged flakes for cutting, but exactly how they were used is not known. Researchers are examining them with a microscope to look for clues.

Then there's the question of who made them. "The jury is out on that," Lewis said.

One candidate would be some Homo species not yet known to science, he said. Other possibilities come from outside the Homo branch, such as Australopithecus afarensis, best known for the skeleton nicknamed Lucy. Still another candidate is a creature called Kenyanthropus platyops, known from remains found not far from the site of the stone tools.

Nick Toth, who co-directs the nonprofit Stone Age Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, and is a professor at Indiana University, said it wouldn't surprise him if the tools were made by a creature with a brain smaller than what's found in Homo.

Although he suspects the tools were made by Australopithecus, he said some of them resemble what bonobo chimps have produced when taught to do so in his own experiments.

That shows "you don't need a very large brain ... to understand the basic principles of fracturing stone," Toth said.

Rick Potts, who directs the Smithsonian's human origins program, said another question is whether the Kenyan discovery has any direct connection to the tool-making technology known from 2.6 million years ago. In any case, he said, the discovery sends a clear message to scientists who seek stone tools.

"The significance of the find is, "Hey, folks we better start looking before 2.6 million years ago,' " he said.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:13 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 20 May 2015