Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "World of Antiquity" channel.

  1. "Scientists should never be absolute" That is a profound statement that the general public, and especially journalists need to learn. Far too often they try to get absolute answers from scientists, and when the scientist nuances his answers that is taken as giving credence to absolute idiots spouting very definite garbage.
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  2. It is good to be proud of one's heritage. But not to think that people who do not share that heritage are somehow inferior.
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  3. I LOVE this content! Keep traveling, Sir!
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  4. A super-hero should NEVER wear a cape. -- Edna Mode
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  5. I was wondering if you would have included the Sutton Hoo grave.
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  6.  @SiqueScarface  Journalists are responsible to interpret & translate that what specialists say. That is their literal job: explaining why something is newsworthy. Nowadays, most journalists treat scientists like they are politicians. Which is NOT the fault of the scientists, but 100% that of the journalists.
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  7.  @SiqueScarface  You are wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards
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  8. All the nonsense is the result of one fatal fallacy: the notion that humans of today are somehow smarter than those of long ago. They were not. The only difference between work by power tools and hand tools is that the power tools work faster. And the main reason why we use steel instead of bronze is that steel is much cheaper. For some applications it has some advantages, but mostly these are not fundamental.
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  9. Using the absence of evidence as the evidence of absence. That is a tired old logical fallacy, suitable for a journalist. I hope Hancock has the decency to recant this nonsense and offer an apology, but I am not holding my breath.
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  10. I love these overviews.
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  11. People do not understand metrology. Basic tools made by hand can make things flat, straight and square to better than 0.1 mm using nothing more than a basic tools and abrasive dust. It just takes TIME. If you don't need to repeat stuff on a different site independent of the first, when neither time nor cost are an issue and when 0.1mm is accurate enough, anyone can do that -- given enough practice. The ancients could make a square just as well as we could using nothing more than a cord and/or a cylinder. There is no fundamental difference between a modern spirit level and an ancient one. Making a surface perfectly flat requires only two other surface and abrasive dust. Dividers work as well now as they did 3 millennia ago. Bronze tools lose their edge quicker than steel ones, but they get the job done eventually. A hole can be drilled in a stone with a wooden stick and some dust and water. The great advances of the modern era that required modern technology are 1). working below 0.01mm (1/1000 inch), and 2). having measurements that are repeatable all over the world using local tools (interchangeable measurements).
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  12.  @Spark010  If they used some sort of percussion to hollow it out, thinning the bottom afterwards makes sense.
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  13. If it were possible, we would be able to see the remnants, as not all fragments would fall on earth, as the man says. But i agree with the other comment that comets and (asteroids) move too fast to be captured. They come from outside the gravity well of earth, so they are able to escape as well. Even if they fracture, each part has enough energy to either hit the earth immediately or escape immediately. None of this spread-out event nonsense.
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  14. I well remember my first visits to the Main Library in my university. They awe at the knowledge that is there, just waiting for you to make it your own. I spent many hours in there for fun, reading various periodicals, browsing the books, often in field that were no my own just out of interest. My own faculty had its own, much smaller, library, I spent many, many hours in there are well, just reading random stuff. Hundreds of hours, probably. As a graduate I can still access the various publications in digital form, and I could visit the Library in person. But nowadays I just browse Wikipedia. Less glamorous, but much information is there and quite reliable. Google has specialised search functions for scientific publications if I really want to dig into a subject.
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  15. AFAIK, the explicit reference to Christ was removed at the behest of atheist and/or Islamic historians who felt offended by the explicit reference to Christ in the western dating system. It has now become the default terminology used by all historians. I think it is quite childish, but I will not fault you for adhering to the scientific default. I know using AD & BC can result in backlash: I have been aggressively corrected by some who thought they knew better. My personal response is FU, but then I am not you. Most Christians know that year 1 was not the year of Jesus' birth, and that He wasn't born in December.
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  16. Here is me wondering in what ways Clovis was first -- apart from being the first king of the Franks.
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  17. I love Istanbul, but I hate what Erdogan is doing to it.
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  18. That first question is the outcome of the dumbing down of society and decades of mistrust being sown into the public against science. You answer it well. It is the same for all pseudo science. And it shows that the people saying it have ZERO understanding of science or the scientific community.
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  19. If people want to move something badly enough, they can do it. That is true now, and it has been true forever.
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  20. Smooth pebbles often are just that: smooth pebbles, polished by the movements of the water and the sand. And yes, they can be flat as well -- as every boy who has ever skipped stones on water knows.
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  21. Never let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory!
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  22.  @aoknoor9395  Didn't they say in the video that the sarcophagus was used anyway?
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  23. 5:00 I love your argument, but when these "experts" eye-ball things and say they are perfect, that means that the ancients could have reached that perfection using nothing more than the m1 eye-ball.
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  24. This is such a great demonstration that it is the skill of the master that matters, not the quality of the tools. Better tools allow the master to work (much) faster, that's all.
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  25. The "higher civilisation" idiots are running a scam, thriving on attention. When my son recently wanted a hole drilled in a 2mm thin piece of carnelian, I gave him some hard powder, olive oil and a wooden toothpick. About half an hour later he was done. Anyone could have done the same, even 10,000 years ago (though my son did borrow my cordless drill when his fingers got tired).
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  26. A very amusing video. People often try to artificially strengthen their (political) opinions by referring to some "facts" -- usually facts that can not easily by debunked by those to who he makes the point. Sadly, in politics, scoring the quick point is more important than what is actual Truth.
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