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I have sent out roughly 10 hardcopies so far and a few more ebooks. I am scheduled to do an author interview next week on DoomandBloom, the #13 survival site in terms of traffic. Marketing the dang book is much less fun than writing it was.
I can't decide if this guy s serious or if this is just another spammer. If he is a spammer he is pretty slick.UPDATE: (He is a religious spammer. Trying to get us all to go to airports and annoy the travelling public as Hare Krishna's no less)
I found the prediction that Arctic is free of ice in the summer months to be the most outlandish. The evidence for anthropomorphic global warming is declining with time.
Those are some pretty cool pictures. I knew a truck driver in the army who had wintered over in Antarctica while stationed there. Needless to say, I did not envy him. He lost two toes that winter.
Wasn't there an organism in Japan or something that they have observed evolving over a human timescale? I vaguely remember reading something about it a few years ago but can no onger remember the reference. I will try to find it.Here are the examples I found: The Peppered moth changed its coloration to fit the environment in England.The one I remember reading was the Nylon eating bacteria. The bacteria supposedly prove evolution because nylon is a completely synthetic material that has existed for less than 100 years, yet here they found a bacteria that eats it.I am not making an argument for or against evolution or creationism. I actually think the debate is stupid as neither will ever really be proved to be big "T" truth as far as I can guess.
I read last year that the Motte and Bailey form of castle ws brought to Western Europe by the Vikings as it is a further development of the Eastern European timber ring-forts common in the North European plain. I do know that the Normans were inordinately fond of the motte and bailey castle so it seems plausible at least.
Heck, I wonder if a toxicology screening on a 2,500 year old corpse wold even turn up anything, assuming we knew where Alexander was buried. I get that they can tell a lot from mummies using cats scans and xrays and such but I am doubtful toxicology screening could turn up anything definitive.
From the article the guy came to his conclusions by examining existing textual evidence. Alexanders body has never been found to my knowledge. I don't think that makes his conclusions invalid though. Even the toxicologist admits he is only proposing a theory that can never b proved.
I wouldn't call a viking longship slow, they were actually pretty fast considering they were propelled by manpower alone. Most Viking raiding parties consisted of between 5-10 longships giving them somewhere around 250-600 men in a raiding party. They did not have to be huge, their reputation preceded them and they were fearsome in combat.
I would argue that none of these weapons has fundamentally “changed” warfare. Then again, I am in the crowd that does not really believe in sudden paradigm shifts anyway.
