Peruvian rock cutting juice
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Ali G said:
Ayahuasca said:
And some of the best food in the world!
Guinea pig pizza..Alpacca and chips ..
Not forgeting Inca Cola - lovely yellow colour - and given how they like their 'tea' who knows what its got in it
Only the Sierra indians and tourists eat Guinea Pig (although I quite like it). Inca Cola is great too!
Ayahuasca said:
The best ceviche you can buy, some of the best Japanese fusion cuisine (Nobu trained in Lima) and the best seafood anywhere.
Only the Sierra indians and tourists eat Guinea Pig (although I quite like it). Inca Cola is great too!
Alpaca is low in fat with very low cholestorol..Only the Sierra indians and tourists eat Guinea Pig (although I quite like it). Inca Cola is great too!
http://www.snowmassalpacas.com/alpaca-info/alpaca-...
Enjoy with chips for a healthy meal!
We should be farming them here (also much cuter than sheep - and the wool's not bad either!)
Halb said:
Use Psychology said:
Ali G said:
Elderly said:
I'm not demigrating what the Incas did but don't forget that M.P. was probably built around the middle of the 15th century, whilst some of Europe's much more sophisticated Cathedrals were built some 250 years before that time.
Totally agree with this - many of the cathedrals were built pre MP and are much more sophisticated.However, the Incas were only around for a relatively short time (150 years?)
Technology moves on and some methods of doing things go out of fashion or get forgotten, the move from bows and arrows to using firearms is an example a good archer was better than a musketeer but the archer needed decades of practice, the musketeer needed a quick lesson and a musket. So the way the Incas did it could be simple but take loads of labour or it could be a complex skill that went out of favour when the requirement for tightly packed but randomly shaped stones waned.
Engineer1 said:
The biggest thing is their technology was different, can we make rock cuts that accurate? Can we come up with a convincing explanation of how it was done? The answer seems to be no to both.
Technology moves on and some methods of doing things go out of fashion or get forgotten, the move from bows and arrows to using firearms is an example a good archer was better than a musketeer but the archer needed decades of practice, the musketeer needed a quick lesson and a musket. So the way the Incas did it could be simple but take loads of labour or it could be a complex skill that went out of favour when the requirement for tightly packed but randomly shaped stones waned.
I seem to remember that there was some speculation that a form of a 'pantograph' may have been used to outline the shape of one rock onto another.Technology moves on and some methods of doing things go out of fashion or get forgotten, the move from bows and arrows to using firearms is an example a good archer was better than a musketeer but the archer needed decades of practice, the musketeer needed a quick lesson and a musket. So the way the Incas did it could be simple but take loads of labour or it could be a complex skill that went out of favour when the requirement for tightly packed but randomly shaped stones waned.
The rest of the process would necessarily have been labour intensive!
However, there 'should' have been plenty of able bodied lads and lasses about (as per building the pyramids) since there was an abundance of fish from the sea, and they had also mastered cultivation of crops - so no need to go out all day scavenging!
No lasers require, and certainly no little green men.
There have been geniuses for the entire history of mankind - no reason why the Incas should not have had their fare share!
Ali G said:
Ayahuasca said:
The best ceviche you can buy, some of the best Japanese fusion cuisine (Nobu trained in Lima) and the best seafood anywhere.
Only the Sierra indians and tourists eat Guinea Pig (although I quite like it). Inca Cola is great too!
Alpaca is low in fat with very low cholestorol..Only the Sierra indians and tourists eat Guinea Pig (although I quite like it). Inca Cola is great too!
http://www.snowmassalpacas.com/alpaca-info/alpaca-...
Enjoy with chips for a healthy meal!
We should be farming them here (also much cuter than sheep - and the wool's not bad either!)
Ayahuasca said:
Alpaca is not commonly farmed for food - it is kept for its wool. The Incas would execute anyone who killed an alpaca or a vicuna without permission.
The Incas may well have done - they also did quite a bit of 'human sacrificing' - so maybe not the best of judges. 
Vicuna are, I think, rare if not endangered.
Alpaca, I'm pretty sure, could be farmed in this country (the weather's bad enough!) as are llamas (to a certain extent).
Ali G said:
Ayahuasca said:
Alpaca is not commonly farmed for food - it is kept for its wool. The Incas would execute anyone who killed an alpaca or a vicuna without permission.
The Incas may well have done - they also did quite a bit of 'human sacrificing' - so maybe not the best of judges. Vicuna are, I think, rare if not endangered.
Alpaca, I'm pretty sure, could be farmed in this country (the weather's bad enough!) as are llamas (to a certain extent).
Ayahuasca said:
The Incas didn't do much 'human sacrificing' (except for the occasional virgin) - it was the Mayas and (especially) the Mexicans who did the whole walls of human skulls, ripping-out-still-beating-hearts and temples of blood thing.
I visited some Mayan ruins last year. The guide went on about how that sort of stuff went on, but nothing like in the scale that the popular perception has.Halb said:
Ayahuasca said:
The Incas didn't do much 'human sacrificing' (except for the occasional virgin) - it was the Mayas and (especially) the Mexicans who did the whole walls of human skulls, ripping-out-still-beating-hearts and temples of blood thing.
I visited some Mayan ruins last year. The guide went on about how that sort of stuff went on, but nothing like in the scale that the popular perception has.In my occupation ( furniture making ) many of the skills of 200 plus years ago have been lost. For all the modern materials and tools, some of the craftmanship of that era could not be reproduced today. One reason is that no-one wants to start an apprenticeship at 11 or 12!
When you consider that they were working by candlelight and drinking beer because the water was unsafe, it becomes even more admirable.
I think this kind of skills loss occurs almost inevitably as technology evolves.
When you consider that they were working by candlelight and drinking beer because the water was unsafe, it becomes even more admirable.
I think this kind of skills loss occurs almost inevitably as technology evolves.
So let me get this straight. 
We can put man on the moon, we can put a rover on mars, we can put man on the bottom of the oceans, we can look into the furthest reaches of space, we can communicate with people on the other side of the world with tiny hand-held devices. That's not to even mention many thousands of other things that would have been unimaginable a just a hundred years ago.....hell we can all blow ourselves up to kingdom come if we really wanted to at the touch of a button.
Yet you're expecting me to believe we have lost a certain art of whacking a stone with a stone....seriously?
We can put man on the moon, we can put a rover on mars, we can put man on the bottom of the oceans, we can look into the furthest reaches of space, we can communicate with people on the other side of the world with tiny hand-held devices. That's not to even mention many thousands of other things that would have been unimaginable a just a hundred years ago.....hell we can all blow ourselves up to kingdom come if we really wanted to at the touch of a button.
Yet you're expecting me to believe we have lost a certain art of whacking a stone with a stone....seriously?
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