re: Hundreds of mysterious Stonehenge like structures found in Amazon

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and most of us do, like all of us in north America, Europe, asia, and Australia. blame the Africans, again, for not giving a shite about anyone or anything

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Amazon isn't in Africa brah.

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And who says it wasn't a rain forest then?

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So they just air dropped those structures into the middle of a rain forest . . . . ?

or like every other area on the planet, they found a habitable area and built on it?

Kinda forgot I made this thread this morning. Anyway here's a better link from the NY Times.

NY Times

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CALÇOENE, Brazil — As the foreman for a cattle ranch in the far reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, Lailson Camelo da Silva was razing trees to convert rain forest into pasture when he stumbled across a bizarre arrangement of towering granite blocks.

“I had no idea that I was discovering the Amazon’s own Stonehenge,” said Mr. da Silva, 65, on a scorching October day as he gazed at the archaeological site located just north of the Equator. “It makes me wonder: What other secrets about our past are still hidden in Brazil’s jungles?”

After conducting radiocarbon testing and carrying out measurements during the winter solstice, scholars in the field of archaeoastronomy determined that an indigenous culture arranged the megaliths into an astronomical observatory about 1,000 years ago, or five centuries before the European conquest of the Americas began.

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People are cutting down the rain forest, which affects all of us. How is that "click bait propaganda"?

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You think you understand that, but you don't.

If it was a conifer forest, it might matter.

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Um, it's pretty straight forward. We know that humans produce CO, which is bad. Trees filter CO, which is good. Less trees is bad. We also know how much CO the Amazon filters from the ecosystem...it's an unreal amount, but CO is still increasing (which, as noted, is bad).

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I find it hilarious you say humans producing CO is bad. First off it's CO2, not CO, and secondly, it's the foundation of life on this planet. Trees break down CO2, and give off oxygen as waste. All breathing life on earth takes in oxygen and gives off CO2 as waste. There isn't now or ever will be a problem with this circle of life b/c you cut down a few trees in Brazil.

did you not read my post about how much forest cover the earth, and how much the amazon comprises of that?

The Amazon has lost 1.4M hectares in the last 50 years. There's 4B hectares of forests covering the earth. Do you really think those 1.4M hectares, which is .035%, does anything to the fricking CO2 filtered on this earth? The loss of the forests in the Amazon make up less than 1% of the total loss of forests in the world in the last 20 years. Like I said, go bitch at the idiots in Africa as well for the loss of forests in the world.


try using facts for your liberal tree hugging opinions, instead of saying "unreal amount" "bad" "good".

ANd i'll say it again, i'm not advocating cutting down forests like idiots. We seemed to find a way to log in NA, Asia, Europe and Australia without losing forests over the last 25 years.