cm0002@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago6,000-Year-Old Civilization Discovered Beneath China's Ancient Mount Taicolombiaone.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down13
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minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoCommunity living in isolation under a mountain for 6,000 years. I bet they’d be rather surprised at what humanity has become in the intervening years; I wonder how humans would adapt to an underground lifestyle in 6,000 years.
minus-squarebassomitron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoThey call themselves Belters and are uncannily tall and lanky and speak in kind of a Creole mash-up accent and language
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoEr, I suspect you’ve got that exactly backwards. They call themselves Dverger and are uncannily squat and heavily built and speak in a kind of German/Mongol mash-up accent and language. And carry picks and axes and wear helmets and beards.
minus-squareSkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoUnder a mountain? No, clearly their entire society revolves around digging for gold while dodging dragons and balrogs
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoBelters in gravity wells? Fellota!
Community living in isolation under a mountain for 6,000 years.
I bet they’d be rather surprised at what humanity has become in the intervening years; I wonder how humans would adapt to an underground lifestyle in 6,000 years.
They call themselves Belters and are uncannily tall and lanky and speak in kind of a Creole mash-up accent and language
Er, I suspect you’ve got that exactly backwards.
They call themselves Dverger and are uncannily squat and heavily built and speak in a kind of German/Mongol mash-up accent and language.
And carry picks and axes and wear helmets and beards.
Even the women have beards
Under a mountain? No, clearly their entire society revolves around digging for gold while dodging dragons and balrogs
Belters in gravity wells? Fellota!