Thought for the day (1)

[Bruce]

Old K, the story about the fate of the settlement at Port Essington illustrates your point about how stupid they were to not learn from the aborigines. The whites all starved, while the aborigines in the same area had plenty.

 

But why didn't they progress over all those thousands of years and make ships and discover England? They could have decided the inhabitants were so primitive they didn't count and called England "terra nullius".

 

 

[willedoo]

I suspect that people have been there much longer, but we just haven't found definitive evidence yet.Archaelogical evidence suggests that people spread around the coastline and river valleys of Australia fairly quickly. Until about 9,000 years ago much of the Sydney Basin was unproductive sandstone bush land, far inland.

 

Most evidence of early humans in this continent is probably miles out to sea.

Back in the early days of oil and gas exploration in this country, Reg Sprigg, a founder of Beach Petroleum, also pioneered off-shore exploration with his company, Geosurveys. They had a boat and hooker diving gear, and from memory, were laying cables and geophones on the seabed by hand. In the gulf out from Adelaide, they came across a lot of grindstones and other artifacts in quite deep water.

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Back in the early days of oil and gas exploration in this country, Reg Sprigg, a founder of Beach Petroleum, also pioneered off-shore exploration with his company, Geosurveys. They had a boat and hooker diving gear, and from memory, were laying cables and geophones on the seabed by hand. In the gulf out from Adelaide, they came across a lot of grindstones and other artifacts in quite deep water.

Wow, I didn't know that. Trawler men in the North Sea often bring up relics of the people who lived there before it was flooded.

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Old K, the story about the fate of the settlement at Port Essington illustrates your point about how stupid they were to not learn from the aborigines. The whites all starved, while the aborigines in the same area had plenty.But why didn't they progress over all those thousands of years and make ships and discover England? They could have decided the inhabitants were so primitive they didn't count and called England "terra nullius".

A good point, Bruce. What's progress? Perhaps they felt no need to develop their material culture and concentrated on improving themselves. An early white fella who lived with desert people reported that at night they spent hours studying the heavens and discussing the meaning of life. Contrast that to the mind-numbing crap too many modern Australians comfort themselves with.

 

This makes the point better than I could:

 

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[facthunter]

Those shortcomings are not exclusive to "White Men". The assumption that other races are inferior is very "Convenient " for the ONE who is asserting it, one might observe. The Bible says go forth and multiply and rule over the animals and the world is for your exploitation is a formula for species extinction and environmental destruction and standing room only, so It's a BAD idea for the Planet even though it's supposed to be the word of God.. nev