Some Interesting Facts Segment 2

Question 1

Who came first, Neanderthals or Cro-Magnons?

Answer 1

About 35,000 years ago, Cro-Magnons migrated into Europe and replaced their Neanderthal cousins.

Ref. Lone Survivors P.18.

Question 2

Was the Sahara always a desert?

Answer 2

6,000 yrs. Ago, Sahara was grasslands, lakes and forest. Ref. Lone Survivors P50.

Question 3

How long have Homo Sapiens lived on the Earth?

Answer 3

Homo sapiens in existence over the last 2 million years or so.

Ref. Lone Survivors P85.

Question 4

Is our behavior caused by our DNA?

Answer 4

There is no doubt that our DNA does provide a basic template for our behavior.

Ref. Lone Survivors P117.

Question 5

How long ago did Religious beliefs begin?

Answer 5

Nobody has that exact answer, but general belief is that religious beliefs probably go back more than 100,000 years. So many Anthropologist favored the idea that our lineage split from that of the apes more than 1.5 mya.

Ref. Lone Survivors

Question 6

What is radiocarbon dating?

Answer 6

Radiocarbon dating is a method of determining the age of an object by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

Question 7

How does radiocarbon dating work?

Answer 7

Radiocarbon is abbreviated as 14C.

14C is constantly being created in the atmosphere by the interaction of cosmic rays with atmospheric nitrogen. The resulting radiocarbon combines with atmospheric oxygen to form radioactive carbon dioxide. This is then incorporated into plants by photosynthesis, and animals acquire 14C by eating the plants.

When the animal or plant dies, it stops exchanging carbon with its environment, and from that point the amount of 14C it contains begins to reduce as the 14C undergoes radiactive decay.

This is how carbon 14 gives us the date of a bone or fossil. It works on humans, animals and plants.

Ref. Lone Survivors P.38. [My note]

Question 8

How are Fossils made?

Answer 8

We understand how water, with minerals dissolved in it, seeps into corpses buried in layers of mud and rock. We understand how the minerals crystallize out of the water and REPLACE THE MATERIALS OF THE CORPSE, ATOM BY ATOM, leaving some trace of the original animal’s form imprinted on the stone.

Fossils: how minerals crystalize out of water and replace the material of the corpse atom by atom. Ref. Magic of Reality. P13.

Question 9

How much detail can we learn from a Fossil with modern technology?

Answer 9

We can recover DNA from good fossils. Another success is we can chemically treat the fossil of tooth plaque from cavemen and know what they commonly ate!

Question 10

Do people really believe Aliens will take them to another world if they commit suicide?

Answer 10

Religious cult “Heavens Gate” ended with 39 deaths by poison because they believed a UFO from space would take their souls to another world.

This happened in California in March 1997.

Ref. Magic of Reality P181.

Question 11

Do people really believe they have been abducted by Aliens?

Answer 11

In a 1992 poll, 4 million Americans thought they had been abducted by Aliens.

Ref. Magic of Reality P185.

Question 12

How do Folklore and tall tales begin?

Answer 12

People enjoy a good story so much they begin to embellish it. It becomes so distorted that it is impossible to know what really happened.

Ref. Magic of Reality P239.

Question 13

How do we date Fossils?

Answer 13

Geologists figure age of layer on top and under fossil to accurately date it.

Ref. Masters of the Planet P20.

Question 14

Are we related to plants and fruits?

Answer 14

We share 40% of our genes with a banana.

Ref. Masters of the Planet. L207.

Question 15

Why do we have a Butt?

Answer 15

Our gluteus maximus purpose is for stopping the trunk from tipping forward at each foot stroke.

Ref. Masters of the Planet P28.

Question 16

Why is our brain so wrinkled?

How large would our brain be if it was completely unfolded?

Answer 16

Why brains are wrinkled; to have large area but still fit in skull.

Unfolded, it is the size of a baby blanket.

Question 17

What caused the Neanderthals to go to Europe and Asia?

Answer 17

Isthmus of Panama, began Ice ages and scattered mankind over planet.

Ref Masters of the Planet P146.

What happened is the Isthmus blocked off the warm waters of the Pacific. The Atlantic ocean continued to get colder and colder. Soon Glaciers grew and dominated the Northern half of the Planet.

Neanderthals moved to find food and shelter in Europe and Asia.

In the United States the Glaciers were about 100 miles thick. The Earth’s sea level shrank about 300 feet lower.

The Great Lakes were carved into the ground. The fertile soils of Canada were moved South and deposited in the great plains of the United States.

Billions of trees in the United States were bulldozed flat resulting in the Great Plains we have today. Also the fertile soil makes up our great farm crops in places like Missouri, Iowa and Illinois.

Question 18

What is Ergot poisoning and how did this lead to Witch burnings and insanity?

Answer 18

Ergot poisoning. Ergot is a fungus that infects Rye which made common bread in ancient days. It causes hallucinations, delusions and sometimes mass insanity. It caused the Salem witch trials and other trials where witches were hanged and burned to death. I suspect it also caused many of the Bible visions we read about, esp. Revelations.

Question 19

How often do we replace our skin cells?

Answer 19

• We make 30,000 skin cells a minute.

Question 20

How much food do we eat?

Answer 20

• We eat 9,000 tons of food in the first 20 years.

Question 21

What happens to our skin cells after we replace them?

Answer 21

They turn to dust.

• By age 45, we have created 400 pounds of dust from old skin cells.

Question 22

Why do we turn old and wrinkly when we get old?

Answer 22

• Our new skin cells are fine but we wrinkle as we get older because ultraviolet light damages collagen. Collagen is what makes our skin snap back to a smooth form rather than wrinkle.

Question 23

How many Secret Service Agents are assigned to protect President Trump’s family while he is President?

Answer 23

There are 960 agents assigned for his family protection. This is at a cost of one million dollars a day on average.

Question 24

How much Hydrogen does the Sun burn each day?

Answer 24

Our Sun burns 600 million tons of Hydrogen per minute!

In a 24 hour day, this is 864,000 tons per day.

In a year this is 315,360,000 tons per year.

315 easy to remember since it is my address.

Question 25

Spartacus had 70,000 rebels. They were rebels against Rome. They were betrayed in their escape from Italy and were trapped with no escape to the sea.

Spartacus and his army were fenced in by the Romans with a fence 15 feet high and 35 miles long.

All the rebels were killed except 6,000. What did the Romans do with this last group of 6,000 rebels?

Answer 25

The Romans wanted to send a strong message to everyone about treason. The Romans crucified the last 6,000 rebels along the road back to Rome. They were crucified evenly spaced at 35 to 40 feet apart for a total distance of 125 miles!

This is a cross roughly every short truck trailer length for 125 miles.

Question 26

How many people die in the USA each day from Opioid drugs?

Answer 26

78 USA people die from Opioid use each day!

Question 27

Dementia has gone down 24% since 2000. Why?

Answer 27

Education of seniors to keep active and learn!

Question 28

My children and pet have some parallel ties to WWII.

What are they?

Answer 28

1. Adam BD August 9th. Nagasaki Atomic bomb Aug. 9th.
2. Amanda BD Sept 2nd. Japan Surrenders Sept 2nd.
3. My dog Nicky BD Sept 1st. Start of WWII: Sept 1st.

Question 29

Those annoying Robo calls. How many Robo calls in 2016 for American homes?

Answer 29

Americans had 29 Billion Robo calls in 2016.

Question 30

How many seasons of Lassie were there?

Answer 30

Lassie had 17 Seasons!

Question 31

Stealth Destroyer, the Zumwalt main numbers.

Answer 31

1. Cost $4 Billion
2. Missles travel 60 miles
3. Cost per missle is $800,000 each.

Ref: Sunday Morning 2017

Question 32

How many cars were victims of the great Houston flood of 2017?

Answer 32

637, 000

Question 33

Oral HPV Virus

How do you get infected with this virus?

Answer 33

Oral sex, number of partners, cigarettes or marijuana.

Question 34

3,957. Number of firearems discovered in carry on bags at TSA checkpoints in 2017, settiing a new record.

1,503,054 Number of Adelie peguins recently found to be living on the Danger islands, near Antarctica; scientists located the previously unknown penguin colony because it produced enough waste to be seen from space. REF: Time mag 3/2018.

In the U.S. there are 417 National Park sites. The Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469 mile stretch of land that extends from North Carolina to Virgina is now the most popular. In 2017, more than 16 million people visited the site.

Answer 34

Water usage:

• Worldwide, 370,000 gallons a year per person.
• United States, 750,000 gallons a year per person.
• The Netherlands, 390,000 gallons a year per person.
• India, 290,000 gallons a year per person.

A burger takes 600 gallons of water. That’s 15 times more than a soy burger. REF: Time mag. 3/2018