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Off the Record / Re: NHL Hockey thread

Last post by Barrister - Today at 09:11:50 PM

This does not feel like satire:
NHL to expand to every city in North America except Quebec City

If you don't have an NHL ready arena don't worry. Just not speaking french or having a rich history of loving hockey is enough for us!"

Ryan Smith, owner of the Utah Jazz, and soon-to-be owner of the former Arizona Coyotes, is spending $1.2 billion to buy the Coyotes.

Is there anyone out there willing to spend $1.2 billion to buy a team in Quebec City?

It's a real shame, but money is the only language the NHL will listen to.  I don't think PKP had $500 mil a decade ago to get an expansion team back when Vegas entered the league, and I'm sure he doesn't have $1.2 bil now.

I'd love to see the Nords back.  But the NHL's actions are more easily explainable than just being anti-french bigots.

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Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 08:30:58 PM

You two are such complete prats 

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Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 08:24:08 PM

God, I hope so.  This shit actually matters, people are dying.  Congress mostly wants to talk "woke dishwashers" and other pointless bullshit.

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Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by jimmy olsen - Today at 07:56:48 PM

Actual image is less impressive

It's a neolithic stone drawing, not renaissance art.

There are paleolithic paintings that are just as good. As Picasso (perhaps apocryphally said), upon viewing the paintings of Lascaux, "we have invented nothing". Just because these paintings are old doesn't mean they get a pass for being ugly.

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Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2024

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 07:49:36 PM

Daniel Dennett died.

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Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 07:47:10 PM

Calling it a "nativity" is just clickbait.

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Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Zoupa - Today at 07:44:59 PM

The minute it goes through the planes will be in the air. The DoD has been chomping at the bit for 8 months now and all the supply logistics have been pre-planned with the Ukrainians.

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Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 07:41:20 PM

Actual image is less impressive

It's a neolithic stone drawing, not renaissance art.

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Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 07:28:44 PM

Actual image is less impressive

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Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 07:21:51 PM

5,000-year-old "nativity scene" reportedly found in Egypt

The rock painting depicts a newborn between parents, a star in the east, and two animals. It was discovered on the ceiling of a small cavity in the Egyptian Sahara desert, Seeker reported. Researchers believe it dates to the Neolithic or Stone Age.


"It's a very evocative scene which indeed resembles the Christmas nativity. But it predates it by some 3,000 years," geologist Marco Morelli, director of the Museum of Planetary Sciences in Prato, Italy, told Seeker. The site reports that Morelli and his team discovered the rock art in 2005, but only now are revealing their findings under the title "Cave of the Parents."

The rock painting, done in a reddish-brown ochre, has several notable features: a headless lion, a baboon or monkey, a star set in the east, and a baby who is slightly raised to the sky, a position that could have signified birth or pregnancy, Seeker reported. 

The rock painting raises questions about the meaning ascribed to nativity scenes long before the birth of Christ. 

"No doubt it's an intriguing drawing," Morelli said. "We didn't find similar scenes until the early Christian age."

That's an interesting read.