What's 30,000 years between friends?

[unixronin]

Depends.  As the age of the Earth goes, it's an eyeblink.  But when it means humans have been in the Americas almost four times as long as previously believed -- almost four times as long as human recorded history, in fact -- it can be a pretty big deal.

Of particular interest to tech geeks in this article is the final comment (emphasis mine):

The footprints remain where they were found.  The team has used laser scans and rapid prototyping equipment to create highly accurate three-dimensional copies, accurate to a fraction of a millimetre, which can be viewed at the Royal Society's Summer Exhibition in London, UK, which ends on 7 July.

Now there's applied tech for you.  I bet the inventors of rapid prototyping never thought the devices they were building would be used for THAT purpose....

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I hate that attitude .... "This datum doesn't fit the theory. The datum must be incorrect."

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

heh, can't tinker with established theories, dontcha know?