After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the French: in the weeks that followed, American archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 feet before finding traces of copper wire. Shortly afterwards, they published an article in the New York Times saying : "American archaeologists, having found traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the French."
A few weeks later, ˜The British Archaeological Society of Northern England" reported the following: "After digging down to a depth of 33 feet in the Wigan area of Lancashire in 2012, Charlie Hardcastle from Platt Bridge, a self-taught local amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found absolutely f*ck all. Charlie has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."
Just makes you bloody proud to be British, dunnit ?
H/T Liz B
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Archaeology.............
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One reason I'm a Jeremy Clarkson fan is that he's an unabashed British nationalist. Something the Brits could use a hell of a lot more of. So when I hear a self depreciating Brit joke, I flinch a bit - because it's one link in the cultural chain that's holding that great country down at the moment.
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