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Cellphones at the Alamo

07/03/2008 11:53 PM

After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network at least a century ago.

Not to be outdone by the Big Apple, California scientists found traces of copper wire even deeper, at nearly 20 meters. Reported the L.A. Times: 'California archaeologists unearth traces of 200-year-old copper wire, clearly indicating that California had an advanced communications infrastructure in place at least one century before New York's.'

One week later a Bryan, Texas newspaper, Daryl's Farm and Ranch Report, disclosed that, 'After digging as deep as 30 meters in cotton fields near Texas A&M University, Bubba Pickle, University Provost, backhoe operator and dabbler in matters archaeological, found "Nothin'! Nary a $#@%&* damn thing!" proving conclusively that no less than 300 years ago, Texans had already gone wireless.'

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07/04/2008 12:09 AM

Who could ask for more proof than that?

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07/04/2008 12:20 AM

Many forms of wireless communications have existed for centuries: smoke signals, signal fires, flags, mail, courier, carrier pigeon. Don't forget the two original forms have existed since prehistory, gestures and speech.

BTW, Europium, have you noticed what your screen name spells minus its first 3 letters? I'm not implying anything, just wondering. And after your original post, I'm really wondering!

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07/04/2008 12:29 AM

"I'm really wondering!"

It's eur opium, not mine!

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07/04/2008 2:50 AM

In Zim they went down 40m and found nothing, Conclusion (combined with the fact that no copper cable was found in the Zim ruins) cable theft was already a problem 400 years ago.

Actually coper wire was used to wound around the shafts of spears to hold the blades. In the late 1600's , 1700's the dutch in the Cape traded copper (wire) for sheep.

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07/04/2008 8:32 AM

Oh yeah? Well, Philippine archeologists dug 40 meters and unearthed a piece of glass, drawing them to the conclusion that, 400 years ago, Filipinos were using fiber optics.

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07/04/2008 8:48 AM

And the absence of any soccer ball remnants indicated Texans were already playing football?

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07/09/2008 10:36 AM

My gra\eat grandfather is Dr. Eugene C Barker; one of Texas' most prominent historians. I am certain he will have the absolute answer to this question.

As he has been dead some decades now, my response may be slow coming. Please hold.

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