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Stop me if you've heard this one (via Fred Knight): Digging to a depth of 1,000 meters last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,000 years. The French came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network centuries ago.
April 3, 2008
Stop me if you've heard this one (via Fred Knight): Digging to a depth of 1,000 meters last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,000 years. The French came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network centuries ago.
Stop me if you've heard this one (via Fred Knight):
Digging to a depth of 1,000 meters last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,000 years. The French came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network centuries ago.Not to be outdone by the French, English scientists dug to a depth of 2,000 meters. Shortly thereafter, headlines in the UK newspapers read: "English archeologists have found traces of a 2,000-year-old fiber-optic cable and have concluded that their ancestors had an advanced high-tech digital communications network a thousand years earlier than the French.
One week later, [insert your national/ethnic group of origin] newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 5,000 meters in an ancient marketplace, they found absolutely nothing. They thus concluded that their ancestors were using wireless!
