Real-Life Weirdness

[Irish Wolf]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

Sometimes, it's sorta frustrating to live in such young country in the New World.

I'm never going to accidentally uncover the remnants of a 3,000 year-old Bronze Age civilization while digging in my neighborhood.

The best I can do is shards of bone from poor people whose bodies were never properly exhumed and moved as the city expanded, because the undertaker charged with the task took all the money and spent it on booze, instead.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...re%3f_amp=true

You never know - you could stumble upon the next Cahokia.

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by Irish Wolf

You never know - you could stumble upon the next Cahokia.

That would be cool, but it's not terribly likely, in Colorado.

We just didn't have enough water to support widespread agriculture able to produce reliable surpluses, until the innovations in civil engineering of the Industrial Age.

The best we can do is Mesa Verde.
https://www.nps.gov/meve/index.htm

Now, don't get me wrong. The cliff dwellings are pretty impressive, I really enjoyed my visit, and I'd encourage anybody to see them should they have the chance.

That said, they only date back to the early 18th Century CE, and were only inhabited about 70 years.

As impressive as they are (and they are truly impressive), it's just not the same.

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

Sometimes, it's sorta frustrating to live in such young country in the New World.

I'm never going to accidentally uncover the remnants of a 3,000 year-old Bronze Age civilization while digging in my neighborhood.

The best I can do is shards of bone from poor people whose bodies were never properly exhumed and moved as the city expanded, because the undertaker charged with the task took all the money and spent it on booze, instead.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...re%3f_amp=true

I found a large layer of clam shells when I was digging a trench for a power cable for my grandfather's garage.

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

I found a large layer of clam shells when I was digging a trench for a power cable for my grandfather's garage.

Not too many clam shells in Colorado, except for the fossilized kind.

Was it an old midden?

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

Not too many clam shells in Colorado, except for the fossilized kind.

Was it an old midden?

Probably. I've vaguely heard of layers of clam shells for some kind of construction or soil conditioning thing.

[Anders]

Apparently bats are really good swimmers.

So this leads me in two directions. One is a post-apocalyptic world where giant bats have evolved (or been gene-manipulated) into marine predators. The other is aquatic vampires.

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Anders

The other is aquatic vampires.

You mean shrimp; the corpse-eating Nosferatu of the depths?

[Anders]

Look up the giant isopod. It haunts my nightmares.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Anders

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Edit: Also, Antarctic glacier is bleeding.

This has to be a sign of the apocalypse. Or an Old One testing site. Could also be the inspiration of an extra-terrestrial site.

What has orange blood?

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

Sometimes, it's sorta frustrating to live in such young country in the New World.

I'm never going to accidentally uncover the remnants of a 3,000 year-old Bronze Age civilization while digging in my neighborhood.
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Colorado's famous for dinosaur fossils. That just means you have to go really far back for your lost city.