Humans Made Fire 790,000 Years Ago


	Humans Made Fire 790,000 Years Ago

thisnamecantbetaken

10-28-2008 8:01 AM

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thisnamecantbetaken says:

Wow. With the same tools they had back then, how many of us could even start a fire today? Way to go, ancient humans!

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10-28-2008 8:33 AM

Rose-Red

abracadabra "Fire"! easy peasy

10-28-2008 8:46 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

I have "fire in my heart", but that doesn't count, I don't reckon. .

10-28-2008 9:05 AM

tabsey

790000 years with fire and people still burn themselves lighting farts. Progress?

10-28-2008 9:16 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

10-29-2008 2:36 PM

Brimstone

good one tabsey.

I wonder if they had a problem with arson back then?

10-29-2008 2:53 PM

thisnamecantbetaken

Jump forward to about 5 minutes into this video and watch from there. I bet that's what it must have felt like, the first time they realised they could actually make fire themselves. Just imagine. The dawn of man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0

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