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eti:
This girl's videos are really enjoyable, and I wanted to share this due to the stunning natural beauty of Lake Baikal, Siberia, and just look at the colour of that ice! 😮😮😮😍😍😍

MuhScopeBroke:
Lake Baikal is a very unique lake. Its home to the only freshwater seal in the world and is remarkably deep too :)
GlennSprigg:
There are MANY places of exquisite beauty, that will never be experienced by the vast general population of this interesting World!!
Unlike SOME of todays Jet-Setters, the vast majority of basic 'Earthlings' have never traveled more than 100-Km from their 'Homes'...  :palm:

For those of us that HAVE traveled, we should be utterly amazed at not only the variety, but also the similarity between a lot of cultures!
I'm talking there, about how we build, commute, how we communicate & socialize, and work together, that forms a common 'strand'...   :-+

I know it's a 'Cliche' but I'm always impressed by reports from Astronauts looking back on 'Earth', when they see no 'boundaries', but just
a beautiful homogeneous  ball of "One-Ness"... Now let's just take Politics & Religion out of the equation... Oh, sorry I'll be banned...  :phew:
GlennSprigg:
Just a simplified 'follow-up' from my last reply!!!...
Here in Australia, our 'History' only goes back to my 'Great Grand Father".  While in England, and Ireland, I visited locations/buildings
dated back to 'B.C.' and beyond... 'We' (Aussies) do not have that type of history. And it was amazing to see the types of structures,
some still waterproof today, that were built so long ago, by people with very limited abilities & tools...  It puts things into perspective!!

Thousands of years ago, many races throughout many regions, understood about 'seeds' and crop growing,... yet not all...
'Others', were 'nomadic', meaning that they traversed the country-side indefinitely, without any such knowledge/desire. Local depletion?,
then just move on... Never built with stones. Never 'wrote' as such. Never changed...  When i was a kid...  (nope, I'm going no further)  :palm:
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on October 03, 2021, 12:36:47 pm ---Just a simplified 'follow-up' from my last reply!!!...
Here in Australia, our 'History' only goes back to my 'Great Grand Father".  While in England, and Ireland, I visited locations/buildings
dated back to 'B.C.' and beyond... 'We' (Aussies) do not have that type of history. And it was amazing to see the types of structures,
some still waterproof today, that were built so long ago, by people with very limited abilities & tools...  It puts things into perspective!!

Thousands of years ago, many races throughout many regions, understood about 'seeds' and crop growing,... yet not all...
'Others', were 'nomadic', meaning that they traversed the country-side indefinitely, without any such knowledge/desire. Local depletion?,
then just move on... Never built with stones. Never 'wrote' as such. Never changed...  When i was a kid...  (nope, I'm going no further)  :palm:

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Not sure how much many of the rest of us changed, really, for many years.

Back in the '70s I was in the UK, & had a look at a "fairly old" wool store in Southampton.
I think it dated from the 14th Century or thereabouts.

It looked exactly the same in construction as similar buildings built in the mid 1800s in Fremantle WA.

My guess is that the Soton one was similar to still earlier ones built a similar length of time before it was.
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