I used to have strong interests, but it’s been harder to feel connected to them in recent years.
I’d like to see if anyone else here shares them:
If any of this overlaps with what you enjoy, I’d like to know what specifically you’re focusing on within it.
I have such book for beginners and I enjoy it whenever I can. I'm just saying, I'm new to this and there are many things I don't know yet.
There are still many things in mt favourite topics that I didn't get yet.
Try looking into quantum mechanics - that will really bake your noodle.
I was never good at science but recently got very much interested with cosmos, read any news I find about it or watch some YouTube channels. For example videos from Neil Tyson de Grasse and Brian Cox. There are still many things in mt favourite topics that I didn't get yet.
adhd told me not to add the hour and minute hands
Is that because you knew you could, so there was no challenge in it and you left the project "half finished"? That's the way I roll a lot of the time. As soon as I can see the finish line, I lose all motivation to continue because it will just be easy and boring and I could start something else instead.
I mean I once made a clock with a second hand that ticked away in zx basic but adhd told me not to add the hour and minute hands
That’s interesting, perhaps these ancient accounts of giants were just really tall everyday people but to the observers seemed unearthly and almost alien. I suppose when transport was limited and new cultures/civilisations met others it would have felt like they were worlds apart in some ways.
If you reads some accounts from Greek and Roman sources they do mention how tall some peoples were, such as the Germanic tribes and the Scots too, even today there's a height difference between populations, with shorter people tending to come from around the southern Mediteraean and taller people from the north such as Scandinavia and Germany.
There is a medical problem that causes people to keep groing taller, it can be treated but not I think easily.
Many fossils were thought to be of giants, not just dinosaurs, but ice age mega fauna too.
You are correct that the prehistoric period generally refers to the period when something wasn’t written down, but it means more than that. Prehistoric refers to the period before the first known writing systems were developed, so you definitely didn’t consume your breakfast in the prehistoric period.
I was referring to written works, ie, written in the historical period, that are discussing events in the prehistoric period, before writing was invented.
The timeline of when prehistory begins and ends depends on which part of the world it refers to, as writing systems developed at different times.
Archaeologists usually refer to the prehistoric period as dating from Neolithic times which in the Levant dates from around 8300 BCE - 4500 BCE, to around 590 BCE. These dates differ in other parts of the world.
The Palaeolithic period in the Levant predates 8300 BCE, but it is sometimes loosely described as prehistoric and some people have started referring to prehistoric as any time back to the dawn of the first humans.
Even though there aren’t written records of a prehistoric person’s last meal, archaeologists sometimes find the remains of food in the stomach of a body that has been preserved in a peat bog or ice. Scientific analysis can show what their last meal contained. Grains of barley, wheat, berries and other things provide huge amounts of evidence about health, wealth, times of famine and so on.
I would suppose a giant would be not of this earth in terms of his or her height. If you go with the texts they were not of the highest powers creation and therefore deemed unnatural, impure, immoral and evil. The great flood was the means of mass execution for these half breeds. If the higher power created man in his image perhaps the fallen were the same, they would still need to be able to relate in some way to human beings unless they did so without emotion and only on the higher powers orders.
I remember when "fun" was defined as finding a VT100 terminal connected to a VAX mainframe where someone had forgot to log out, writing them a LOGIN.COM script that just contained "LOGOUT" and then watching people scratch their heads when they couldn't log in again. Oh, happy days.
possibly giants
What would qualify as a giant? 7 feet tall, 20 feet etc?
There are some humans who have been known to grow really tall but they often have serious health issues as a direct result of this, Since these are natural and know I imagine you would consider someone much taller.
At, say, 20 feet tall, the human frame could not support this so an foreign genome would be required to be compatible with humanity to be able to create a hybrid as you describe.
I'm curious as to what qualifies as a fallen one? If they were angelic would they have been shaped by God to be able to reproduce? If so, it raises lots of interesting questions as to why they were deliberately designed with unnecessary equipment.
An interesting thought experiment could grow from this.
There is mention in certain texts of fallen ones making home with people….creating monstrous offspring…possibly giants and the like. I am not one to close all doors unless I can be certain, I’ll always be superstitious but I also have a keen interest in the supernatural.
Have you watched the 3 Body Problem TV series?
I read the books. They got pretty bleak, but I really liked them. The physics was very interesting, if a little bonkers.
I didn't think much of the English translation of the first book; maybe they've redone it by now. The language seemed a little "off" to my ear/brain. The translations of the second and third books were good, though.
Giants….any belief in those?
There's a known tendency for species that are isolated on islands to become giants. Galapagos tortoises, for example. See island gigantism.
Sometimes they grow smaller, though (like Homo floresiensis, the Indonesian "hobbits").
Not all prehistoric evidence is recorded in writing!
Isn't that in the definition of history vs. prehistory? History is written down and prehistory isn't? But then, not everything was written down after writing was invented, so is what I had for breakfast historic or prehistoric? Anyone know if there is an official definition?
The fact the author is from a different culture does create a different "feel" to the storytelling but I saw that as part of its charm.
The TV show used lots of 3D computer graphics (since a lot of the show takes place in a Virtual Reality game) which I guess saved them a lot for special effects. Unfortunately the reveal towards the end used the same graphics which stole some of the visual impact.
I've got the Wandering Earth by the same author on my list to read but will save that for a long haul flight I think.
I used to use Sun workstations
I used to love the Sun SPARCstations in the very early 90s. They were my intro to Unix and I loved them. I never felt comfortable on Windows after that.
