Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - The Golden Boy - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

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 "Joetheone" <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Joetheone" <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > "Joetheone" <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> "Micky DuPree" <MDuPree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> > "Joetheone" <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> >
> >> >> > : Of course, I don't understand how, in all the course of human
> >> >> > : evolution, the America's never produced a single person that
could
> >> >> > see
> >> >> > : a rock roll down a hill and make the obvious connection.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Are archeologists certain that the wheel preceded the
domestication 
> >> >> > of
> >> >> > the horse?  Serious question.  I could see a case where having
the
> >> >> > horse
> >> >> > first was what spurred the invention of the wheel.  No horse, no

> >> >> > cart.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > -Micky
> >> >> >
> >> >> Ya know, I'm going to have to look into that one. Thanks.
> >> >
> >> > The Straight Dope already did
> >> >
> >> > http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_250.html
> >> >
> >> > -- 
> >> Which goes back to "Why not domesticate the buffalo?"
> >> There's a roadside monument not far from me that commemorates "the
only 
> >> pack
> >> string that ever paid for itself."
> >> A string of 40 or so oxen that packed supplies into the mines, then
got 
> >> ate
> >> when they got there.
> >> I'd forgotten about the Mexican toys. Just adds to the puzzle.
> >
> > what would plains indians have DONE with domesticated buffalo?  There
> > were plenty hanging around to kill and eat when you wanted one.
> > Domesticating them would have made more work.  What would have been
the
> > benefit?
> >
> > -- 
> Oh, not have to walk hundreds of miles every year just to get groceries?


There were 14 trillion bison in American at the time.  One every 3.27 
feet.

> Carrying everything you own with you?
> Find a more efficient way to get your meat and clothes and tools than 
> running as many animals as you can over a cliff?

Why?  What do they care?  There's plenty of bison, and it's the easiest 
way.

> Ride to see your buddies in another camp--or kill them?
> Pretty much the same stuff that the people of the Asian and European
Steppe 
> did when they domesticated horses and cattle. 

You're thinking domesticating bison to RIDE them?

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