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[DocZaius]

I don't buy it. Maybe it was some genetic freak like Andrew the Giant of a Neanderthal, but this is only going to fuel the stupid conspiracy theorists that giants once roamed the earth, built the Pyramids, and substantiates the Old Testament.

If it's even legit (there have been plenty of hoaxes in the past), whose to say the fragments aren't of an animal?

I don't think this is one of those "ancient giants" theories (despite the name). I think the controversy is that this fossil challenges the idea that the Aborigines were the first hominids in Australia. If they're not really ancestral Aborigine remains, then why are they reburying them (never mind that one culture's modern view of burial practices are pretty far removed from those of 50,000 years ago or more).

 

[Evil gator]

It’s idiotic

 

[Juggs]

I don't think this is one of those "ancient giants" theories (despite the name). I think the controversy is that this fossil challenges the idea that the Aborigines were the first hominids in Australia. If they're not really ancestral Aborigine remains, then why are they reburying them (never mind that one culture's modern view of burial practices are pretty far removed from those of 50,000 years ago or more).

The measurements of that skull would indicate it's at least partially one of those. I believe that's more than double the size of any known human skull. I would think that's more significant than the possibility of an aboriginies not being the OGs.

But then, cultures have this weird obsession with clinging onto identities. America did it for a century when we had proof the "Clovis first" theory was wrong, but they hid the evidence and kept teaching it. Egypt refuses acknowledge they most likely settled around the pyramids and not built them. I could see the same thing being true here, though why you'd give a shit.....it's baffling.

 

[Irish Mike]

I think it's better than the first, more focused - The majority of it being about in the Americas (aside from Easter Island), no globe hopping.

WTF was Keanu doing in there?

 

[Juggs]

WTF was Keanu doing in there?

I have no fucking idea....But he was painful to listen to.