[ExI] Easter Island

[Emlyn]

2009/3/26 Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>:
> At 08:44 PM 3/25/2009 -0700, Lee ironized:
>
>>>> At 06:56 PM 3/24/2009 -0700, Keith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If you can propose a technical
>>>>> path to get the historical Easter Islanders out of their mess, I would
>>>>> be most interested.
>>>>
>>>>  Hunt down and kill all the rats.
>>>> <http://www.livescience.com/history/060309_easter_island.html>
>>>
>>> Also,
>>> Avoid diseases from European contact. Avoid the slave traders who took
>>> thousands of slaves away.
>>
>> Er, Bill, I hope that you realize that this would mean
>> armed resistance.
>
> <many thigh-slapping yucks snipped>
>
> The serious point Bill was making is that the few thousand original
> colonists of Easter Island had no plausible way to confront or repel
> disease-bearing invaders. This need not apply to the current situations to
> which Keith was applying that catastrophe as an analogy or perhaps a
> homology. (I suppose it's possible that they might have tried to deal with
> the rats, but my own kitchen has the horrible things scuttling in the walls,
> so good luck with that.)
>
> Damien Broderick
>
>
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Moonrat:
http://www.americazoo.com/goto/index/mammals/39.htm

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