Found in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon is the Pueblo Bonito (Beautiful Town). This town was founded 1,000 years ago by the Ancestral Puebloans who dwelled here for centuries. Eventually, after a long time of staying in this place, the Ancestral Puebloans finally left about 1126 CE.
When they departed, the villagers left behind a wondrous legacy of massive structures that once stood up to five storeys high, filled with hundreds of rooms, and cultural artefacts, including pottery, musical instruments, and tools for use in ancient rituals.
Aside from these magnificent structures and amazing stuff that they abandoned, the Ancestral Puebloans also left this thing behind. This thing was a log of a ponderosa pine, which measured twenty feet long. This lone log had the archaeologists puzzled when they discovered it in 1924.
What was this log for? Scientists of today have some theories about this lone log. Check it out over at Science Alert.
(Image Credit: National Park Service/ Science Alert)
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I figure that at least a 1/4th of them do. We Canadians take recycling seriously.
He should be fined and locked up! Social networking my ass.
Oh well, something about "Steel City" I guess.
Hypocrites, all. Why not become effectual and proactive by demanding the cessation of the toxic containment of corn-syrup or bottled water or some over-priced juice?
The problem with pollution? The individual irresponsibility of people who want their cake, to eat it, then to tell others how they should eat it, what time, how it should taste, etc. etc. etc.
Stop buying the shit, and manufacturers will cow-tow to demands that will keep their quarterly digits a-poppin'. Half the useless bullshit sold at Walmart is made of petroleum, manufactured by Asian wage-slaves, by a country whose Borg-like masses are way to far removed from sane sensibilities.....because they wanna be like the star-bellied sneetches....That would be y'all, us, we.
Glass is best. Throw it in the ocean and it turns into something the ocean can use. Oh but wait...what would the world be like without plastic??
Go look at some photographs prior to saaaay, 1930. Utilitarian plastics have given the world a rather dull, artless, cheesy look, and has no doubt contributed to the insanity that allows companies whose bulk of revenue comes from the 24-production of it, to continue to operate.
Hooray for this guy throwing empty plastic bottles with messages into the ocean! It's much more cathartic and profitable than lazily buying a bottle of (insert crap here) like some raccoon grabbing a shiny bauble.
Ok, done-*steps off soapbox during derby