Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Stefan Milo" channel.

What a great accomplishment. What a shame that this comment section will be filled with those who can't appreciate how wonderful it was.
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Thanks for the information. I've never heard of him and this topic fascinates me. I went, I saw and I subscribed.
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John Toas Yet, Inuit have eaten almost exclusively meat for over one thousand years. So, it would seem that their bodies have evolved to, not only live on that diet, but to thrive on it, in an extremely harsh environment. It would also seem that humans lived on meat, in northern Europe and Asia for 30,000 years. Over the harsh winters of the Ice Age, meat would have been the only food source for long periods of time. They were able to live on it because their ancestors, coming from Africa, had also lived on meat, through hunting and scavenging. This has been going on for millions of years. No matter how you spin it, we've adapted to living on a omnivorous diet and it has become a legacy that goes back into the deepest recesses of human history. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that human tool building started as a method to more easily access bone marrow and developed to more easily cut meat away from the bone. Also, had humans not used the skins of their prey, they'd never have settled in the northerly regions of the planet. It's a direct result of hunting animals for food and adapting the skins of the carcasses for warmth. If eating meat is bad for you, we'd have died off, as a species, a long time ago.
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@jimmy_kirk Apparently, you've never been to the steppe or the prairies of North America. There are no trees. So they used what was available...mammoth bones. Just like the Inuit use snow to build their homes. There are no trees in the Arctic. A rather snide remark that makes no sense.
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B..b.bbbu....but the guy with the weird hair said it was aliens.
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@Ck-zk3we Elephants may well mourn the death of family members but they haven't reached the level of sophistication of abstract thought that humans have. They haven't tried to understand death in terms of life philosophy or why it would even happen. One could say that they're in the early stages of self awareness and that there is a difference between life and death. Humans were once at that point but as their ability to think and reason advanced, they developed new ideas to explain what the life/death process was actually about.
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@bulletsfordinner8307 Actually, that's a myth that's told by African ivory hunters. It's akin to the myths around Eldorado or lost cities of gold. I've found no confirmation that this myth might be true. If you have a reference that counters it, I'd be happy to check it out.
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@JesseJames83 When shaping a giant obelisk, you'd use a LOT more than just 4 men. Sawing it in half is a 2 man job, at least 2 at a time, but grinding and sanding the rock into a shape could employ a lot more than just 4 men. It would be covered in workers, who could work 24 hours, to get the job done.
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@JesseJames83 If I'm digging a ditch across town, the more people with shovels, the better. It depends on the job and this type of work, just like grinding and polishing granite, is labour intensive. You could either stretch those man hours over years with 4 men, or increase the manpower and get it done in a fraction of the time. You have to think in time on man hours.
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@teeanahera8949 Yet, every civilisation, every tribe, in every part of the world had their version of the "sky fairy". Why is that? Can you explain it? Can ANYONE fully explain it. Also, it's very easy to claim that religion caused most of the world's conflicts. Every tribe, group, country, what have you, had religious beliefs. If they went to war, they called on their gods to help them. Does that mean that the belief in those gods was the cause of the war? Or is it just human conflict, the need for better hunting, fishing or agricultural lands because they're starving. Maybe they wanted the riches of their opponents. Maybe they wanted women because they'd just been decimated by disease or hunger and they had to rebuild their numbers. Primatologist, Jane Goodall, was shocked to be a witness to a group of chimpanzees crossing their boundary into the land of another troupe of chimps and slaughtering every one of them. Was that religion, too? Chimps aren't even capable of that kind of thought, yet they acted just like humans, invading the lands of others, slaughtering them and assuming control of that land. How is that even possible? People go to war and give all kinds of reasons but what is the real reason behind it? I think that "religion caused it" is a very weak argument to explain the human condition. It's also another way to assign a moral superiority to oneself. "I'm the advanced one. Better than THOSE guys" We have to look deeper into why we behave the way that we do.
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