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Largest Known Maya Structure Found

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Re: Largest Known Maya Structure Found

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Post by KKPMW »

xhkkffbf wrote: post #5
dang wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436526

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I am not sure if you are aware, but you replied to one of a few HN moderators.

> You make it sound like posters should write some epic multi-paragraph thumbsucker

He doesn't 'sound' like it. He enforces the rules about how it should be. And I agree with the judgement - the comment he replied to had no real substance. It's a kind of thing you post on a reddit meme thread as a first comment in order to accumulate "likes".

Re: Largest Known Maya Structure Found

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Post by therealdrag0 »

xhkkffbf wrote: post #5
dang wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436526

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“Aliens” sure doesn’t sound like a serious comment about the posted article. And if you feel like it is, then yes, you have a lot of explaining to do.

Re: Largest Known Maya Structure Found

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Post by elboru »

meddlepal wrote: post #7

It's kind of impressive they accomplished so much without inventing the wheel... or has that been debunked and is just long outdated information?

Some wheeled toys have been found in Mexico, it’s not like the wheel was never invented. But The Americas didn’t have domesticable large animals that could be used to pull wheeled carriages (bisons were not domesticated at the time), that’s why the wheel was never used for that purpose.

Indeed it’s very impressive how much they accomplished by themselves without the wheel, without big domesticated animals and without contact with other civilizations.

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