Very cool, but I thought this was going to be ancient-technology bullshit. I'd love to see quotes around "vehicle", or a different word.
Evidence of 22,000-year-old vehicles found at White Sands National Park
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#24Back in MY day, we didn't even have wheels!
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#25Using the word vehicle in the title is one of the more clickbaity moves. Why not just “Evidence of 22,000 year old travois…”
Most people have no idea what a travois is. The headline could have been evidence of a 22000 year old wheelbarrow like vehicle but I guess that was a mouthful. “Vehicle” is fine.
While vehicle does have a broad definition, I think that for “most people”, it is synonymous with the kind of conveyance that people ride in. Police officers say “get out of the vehicle please”. I’m pretty sure that when they encounter a rowdy Mardi Gras goer riding in a wheelbarrow, they do not say “get out of the vehicle please sir”.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most people have no idea what a travois is. The headline could have been evidence of a 22000 year old wheelbarrow like vehicle but I guess that was a mouthful. “Vehicle” is fine.
While vehicle does have a broad definition, I think that for “most people”, it is synonymous with the kind of conveyance that people ride in. Police officers say “get out of the vehicle please”. I’m pretty sure that when they encounter a rowdy Mardi Gras goer riding in a wheelbarrow, they do not say “get out of the vehicle please sir”.
> I think that for “most people”, it is synonymous with the kind of conveyance that people ride in.
The article suggests that people riding in (or on, perhaps) was a common use for the vehicle.
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#28Very cool, but I thought this was going to be ancient-technology bullshit. I'd love to see quotes around "vehicle", or a different word.
More specifically it is a travois, but a travois is a vehicle, and most people are going to have no clue what a travois is when casually reading a headline. They should know what a vehicle is. It is a common word.
The top article on HN right now is in the same situation: "Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?" What kind of cheese? Parmigiano Reggiano, it turns out. For the sake of the headline, did it really matter what kind of cheese, though? Not really. Cheese is fine.
And vehicle is a perfectly fine word to describe what it is without getting too deep into jargon as well. What would you have selected instead?
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#29The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!
Babies in these pioneer things used to ride for miles!
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#30This is really cool. But I want to talk about how much free headspace Graham Hancock has managed to acquire. I thought about him the moment I saw this title. I'm sure some of you came to the comments looking for his name too.
lol nobody outside of joe rogaine and tiktok take hancock seriously. dude is an absolute scam artist and liar. hancock makes you stupid.
No I disagree. He’s exactly what we need. Established dogma needs shaking up and to defend itself every now and then anew.