Ok, you start an idea like this by noticing that there's hardly anyone out there you'd call a genius who hasn't spent a seriously huge amount of time practicing that thing that they love to do. Mozart: precocious child but didn't get really, genuinely GOOD until he'd been working on it for years. So you come up with a figure and say that it takes 10000 hours to master a genuinely deep cognitive activity.

But can anybody say correlation not causation? That, I dunno, maybe 10,000 hours is a necessary not a sufficient condition?

if it looks like a photo, feels like a photo, tastes like a photo, sounds like a photo, smells like a photo...

the name, An-tiki, must be a reference to Kon-tiki, so now I wonder what both names mean.

At 92 you can do whatever the heck you want.

@ mitch I think the idea is that it drives into the ocean from the coast instead of submerging like a real sub.

isn't it "hey, hey, hey, goodbye?"

It does seem like a good way to get shot, but then I wouldn't want to shoot anybody after I was covered in orange paint.

Yes that does seem like the only possible explanattion, but nit knowing the layout of the falls I didn't know if even that was possible. But having looked at the google maps image it seems like it would be a relatively simple thing to do.

I also looked up the amount of water involved, 90% of the water flows over the horseshoe side, since they did this in the winter and since the difference between summer time peak volume and winter time low volume is so huge, diverting the American side water would be negligible.

@grey- no it was not.

I wonder where they put 6 months worth of water.

@lulu- science doesn't tell anybody that anything is true. Science is just a methodology, it's a system for how to ask the questions, not a set of conclusions. The mistakes scientist have made over the years is exactly what makes science science. In fact, the more mistakes you find the more you validate the process.

How does the presence on two meteors indicate it took two to wipe out the dinosaurs, can't the first have done the job?

It's not neat.

It's pretty cool that we're still discovering new species.

It cost millions to build but that's just OK because lowered energy bills will recoup that loss over a period of hundreds and hundreds of years!!