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?
>
> -- 
It's done.