Roopkund (Skeleton Lake) is a glacial lake in Uttarakhand state of India famous due to more than five hundred human skeletons found at the edge of the lake.
The human skeletons were rediscovered in 1942 by a Nanda Devi game reserve ranger H K Madhwal, although there are reports about these bones from late 19th century.[1] Earlier it was believed by specialists that the people died from an epidemic, landslide or blizzard. The carbon dating from samples collected in the 1960s vaguely indicated that the people were from the 12th century to the 15th century.
In 2004, a team of Indian and European scientists visited the location to gain more information on the skeletons. The team uncovered vital clues including jewellery, skulls, bones and preserved tissue of bodies.[2] DNA tests on the bodies revealed that there were several groups of people including a group of short people (probably local porters) and a taller group who were closely related - with DNA mutations characteristic for Kokanastha Bramins in Maharashtra.[1] Though the numbers were not ascertained, remnants belonging to more than 500 people have been found and it is believed that even more than six hundred people perished. Radiocarbon dating of the bones at Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit determined the time period to be AD 850 ±30 years.
After studying fractures in the skulls, the scientists in Hyderabad, Pune and London determined that the people died not of disease, but of a sudden hailstorm.[2] The hailstones were as large as cricket balls, and with no shelter in the open Himalayas, many, or possibly all of them, perished.[2] Furthermore, with the rarefied air and icy conditions, many bodies were well preserved. With landslides in the area, some of the bodies made their way into the lake. What is not determined was where the group was headed to. There is no historical evidence of any trade routes to Tibet in the area but Roopkund is located on an important pilgrimage route of the Nanda Devi cult with Nanda Devi Raj Jat festivities taking place approximately once every 12 years.[1][3]
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Well it did give me the idea to make a spy movie where the spy spreads honey onto all the countries nuclear arms, thus inspiring bears to come and maul the nukes.
I'd call "Winter of Bears" a straight-to-video remake of an american classic.
Naney, you don't have the technical prowess, if you attempt a high-level repair of that caliber, who knows what kind of disasters could result from such stuff!
So apparently I have lost my smartphone privileges and have to use some crappy ten dollar flip phone. I don't even particularly like smartphones, but I'd at least like a phone where I don't have to use numbers for letters.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Like I said: poor people are good at fixing stuff because we can't afford to have people do it for us.
I actually still have an old CDMA flip phone at home (a couple of them, actually), and I've been thinking about activating one for the sheer hell of it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I kinda understand that, oddly enough. If I'm using something that's one or two versions behind the latest release, the "purity" thoughts start eating away at me, but if it's sufficiently old it instead becomes an almost-amusing sort of "lol I'm still using X."
That said, I didn't get a cell phone in any form until I was 16, and it was this, so quitcher whinin'. :P
Perhaps I'm of the mind that occasionally things get too complicated at time with technology, I recently got a look at a new phone and menus for menus for menus upon menus, and at that point I was just curious how much redundancy was necessary for this thing.
Fair enough, I guess. But it kind of makes it harder for me to get in contact with old friends, and since my birthday's coming up I think that's something I need to do soon.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Hey, it was 2006 for me, too! I was doing online classes at the time and occasionally needed to go out to Fairborn for in-person lab sessions, so my parents broke down and bought me a prepaid phone so I could tell them when I needed rides and stuff.
Here's a picture taken with said phone:
And mind you, I didn't shrink that at all. That's the resolution it took pictures at.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Avenue, I have sometimes wished I came from a poor family. It would mean less snobbishness from above, and also it would have very, very little impact on my lifestyle (I have never even had an allowance and most of my family's money does not get spent on me), and also I wouldn't have to feel guilty that my parents have loads of money.
Avenue, I have sometimes wished I came from a poor family. It would mean less snobbishness from above, and also it would have very, very little impact on my lifestyle (I have never even had an allowance and most of my family's money does not get spent on me), and also I wouldn't have to feel guilty that my parents have loads of money.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I have Office 2010 on this laptop, admittedly, but that's only because I got a student discount on it way back when I started college. Nowadays I mostly use LibreOffice anyway.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also: The pair of headphones I'm wearing right now is the only one that's ever lasted me more than a year.
And even that's debatable, considering they only still work because I opened them up and stuck a bunch of electrical tape inside.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
They don't seem to serve any real purpose from a traffic flow perspective, since they only bypass two railroad tracks and some insignificant side streets.
My only guess is that they date to a time when several more railroad tracks would have passed through the town...otherwise it seems like a waste.
Most people who consider themselves middle class are just slightly less poor than the other poor people. The gap between "middle class" and poor is insignificant compared to the gap between "middle class" and rich.
The flipside is rich people who call themselves "upper middle class". Another forum I go to has a member whose father built a studio for him who insists that he's not rich.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
By this, I mean: the American "upper" middle class is rich (and maybe even "lower" middle class?), the "working" class is poor, and the non-working class, or those in unfortunate circumstances, are very poor.
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I'd call "Winter of Bears" a straight-to-video remake of an american classic.
there really isn't.
Most people who consider themselves middle class are just slightly less poor than the other poor people. The gap between "middle class" and poor is insignificant compared to the gap between "middle class" and rich.
The flipside is rich people who call themselves "upper middle class". Another forum I go to has a member whose father built a studio for him who insists that he's not rich.
Well the idea of a proletariat is largely a Marxist construct, so that depends on whether or not you're a Marxist.
By and large the working class agree on things even more rarely than the rich do.
I wonder if this has really changed at all since 1911?