[extropy-chat] FWD [forteana] Neanderthal art?

natashavita at earthlink.net natashavita at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 4 15:30:55 UTC 2003


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From: Brian Lee brian

>From: "Kevin Freels" <kevinfreels at hotmail.com>
>Hooray! Once again we see they were smarter than we give them credit for!
>It's crazy how our perception that they didn't have artistic abilities
>relies on the fact that most of their art didn;t survive for tens of
>thousands of years. I wonder how many original Dali paintings will be 
>around
>in 50,000 years.

>No originals, but there will be 75 billion of his posters that survive
>from excavated college dorms.

The graffite paintings on the bathroom walls may last longer -  Digitized
prints have a life-span that degenerated before 50,000 years.  Same for
photographic copies.  Unless the Dalii prints are preserved in air-tight
frames and mountings, the Neanderthal may still outlive them.

Natasha

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