Does this affect archeological or any other scientific efforts negatively? Or is it the same as selling fossils online as souvenirs for couple dozen dollars? Well except the prices are in 6 digits and there's a seemingly considerable ecological impact
I understand that the carved mammoth's tusks can be worth millions, but
> The market for powdered rhino horn in Vietnam is partly due to a belief it can cure cancer. By the time it reaches Vietnam, the horn will be worth more than its weight in gold.
So they even sell based on myths and legends? What insanity. I thought museums would pay for this. Not to mention the work an life conditions in these remote regions of Russia. This is one hell of a documentary.
A summer away from one's family, doing hard work in the mud, eating highly processed food from cans and drinking tons of alcohol sounds like a real blast of a time for young men if not for the mosquitoes and questionable economics of it all.
It sucks that they'd destroying the land and the rivers but that's not new. Hopefully they find some equilibrium that legalizes what they're up to that maximizes the upside and minimizes the damage like more mature resource extraction industries do.
This is a bad take. The article makes it clear that most of them will lose money on the venture, and the reason the prices are high are due to status-mining chinese elites and traditional-medicine paranoiacs in vietnam. It's a pretty dismal situation.
bad news - a large enough collection of resource extraction industries have already denuded vast areas.. combine with poisonous petrochemical products over time and industrial lighting and roads.. we are in a fast-paced extinction event.. "we" means a lot of economies..
It is "successful" in the short term to be greedy. Many companies today are successful.
Anthrax spores blasted out of the permafrost at pressure. It really seems like sooner or later, who could have guessed that this activity came with a curse?
the ancestors of the men pictured in the article are "responsible" for introducing yersenia pestis/the plague into the world and europe in particular, from there habbit
of eating marmots, which are the original plague vector
then as now they are a fractious lot, given to grand gestures, a culture that is very similar to those ancient times, so they will not be taking any advice about health and saftey.
The truth about a new plauge is that as humanity is digging into every last nook and crany on the planet, all day, every day, and then dragging whatever we find back to a lab and playing with it, at every university on the planet, and then heading to the pub after maybe not washing our hands, an ooopsy!
is more or less inevitable
be fun to see if there are lightly used level 5 air filters for sale somewhere, what withall the defunding going on....
Does this affect archeological or any other scientific efforts negatively? Or is it the same as selling fossils online as souvenirs for couple dozen dollars? Well except the prices are in 6 digits and there's a seemingly considerable ecological impact
I understand that the carved mammoth's tusks can be worth millions, but
> The market for powdered rhino horn in Vietnam is partly due to a belief it can cure cancer. By the time it reaches Vietnam, the horn will be worth more than its weight in gold.
So they even sell based on myths and legends? What insanity. I thought museums would pay for this. Not to mention the work an life conditions in these remote regions of Russia. This is one hell of a documentary.
A summer away from one's family, doing hard work in the mud, eating highly processed food from cans and drinking tons of alcohol sounds like a real blast of a time for young men if not for the mosquitoes and questionable economics of it all.
It sucks that they'd destroying the land and the rivers but that's not new. Hopefully they find some equilibrium that legalizes what they're up to that maximizes the upside and minimizes the damage like more mature resource extraction industries do.
This is a bad take. The article makes it clear that most of them will lose money on the venture, and the reason the prices are high are due to status-mining chinese elites and traditional-medicine paranoiacs in vietnam. It's a pretty dismal situation.
Didn't most people in the original Gold Rush lose money too?
> like more mature resource extraction industries
bad news - a large enough collection of resource extraction industries have already denuded vast areas.. combine with poisonous petrochemical products over time and industrial lighting and roads.. we are in a fast-paced extinction event.. "we" means a lot of economies..
It is "successful" in the short term to be greedy. Many companies today are successful.
I don't know when this article was written, but this is nothing "new" - it's been going on for years.
Anthrax spores blasted out of the permafrost at pressure. It really seems like sooner or later, who could have guessed that this activity came with a curse?
the ancestors of the men pictured in the article are "responsible" for introducing yersenia pestis/the plague into the world and europe in particular, from there habbit of eating marmots, which are the original plague vector then as now they are a fractious lot, given to grand gestures, a culture that is very similar to those ancient times, so they will not be taking any advice about health and saftey. The truth about a new plauge is that as humanity is digging into every last nook and crany on the planet, all day, every day, and then dragging whatever we find back to a lab and playing with it, at every university on the planet, and then heading to the pub after maybe not washing our hands, an ooopsy! is more or less inevitable be fun to see if there are lightly used level 5 air filters for sale somewhere, what withall the defunding going on....
I wonder how easy it would be to counterfeit a mammoth tusk
Counterfeit ivory isn’t anything new.
Oof