Disaster theory - Mystery of Easter Island - part one - BBC

[oung77]

bullshit theory. They would've reused the equipment. Its kind of insulting to think that these people were dumb enough to cut down all the trees and not be able to reused the timber. I think it may have been a tsunami or some natural disaster that swept through the island. This theory suggests that people are inherently evil. In some instances, but not to this extent. I don't buy this theory.

[AdrianD2010]

por que no la reforestan mas,??

[audiobuttmaster]

No.

[Trility]

if theyre using trees to roll statues they could reuse them.....and maybe they didnt cut down the last tree maybe the ground eroded so it fell into the water...

[BionicleFreek99]

poseble

[KingYordi]

why should they cap all the tree's :s

i dont think they where stopid XD

[JDX000]

if they were smart enough to build the statues and move them, why didn't they figure our a way to survive and escape the island?

[megaswenson]

According to Thor Heyerdahl, Easter Island was originally populated by a race of giant redheads who had fled genocide on the West Coast of South America. Later, the Polynesians overran the island, murdering the men. I bet the first statues were built by the original inhabitants of the island. Their technology was emulated by the less intelligent newcomers. The Polynesians were smart enough to emulate the original inhabitants' technologies, but not smart enough to develop new ones for escape.

[JDX000]

0_o

thanks.

:)

[llevijr]

I am Samoan. We are the birth place of polynesia. From Savaii to Manu'a.

Just look at Easter Island place names. Samoan.

We love Giant stories. We have plenty of stories of Giants in Samoa.

[kanakaken]

Heyerdahl was not always right in his theories. He believed the islands were populated by people from Sth America. Mitichondrial DNA has proven the polynesian people started their journey, to populate the islands, from Taiwan. Even the Polynesian language has its roots in original indigenous Taiwanese people. To me the evidence points to the island people traveled to Sth America and brought back things like Kumara, papyrus reeds and stone carvings etc.Kumara is the strongest link almost every

[kanakaken]

every island has this tuber and they all say it native to their island. All varieties of kumara and the more than 3000 varieties of potato are native of Peru. Even the name 'kumara' is a Quechua word from the highlands of Peru. The Peruvians only had primitive balsa wood rafts whereas the Polynesians had high tech catamarans. So the most likely carriers of interchange would be the Pacific Islanders. the lesson of Rapa Nui is, when you live on a small island with limited resources care for it.

[epocaliptos]

So their own stupidity killed them.

In larger scale that's what comes next to planet Earth, sadly.

[Spitshine610]

I guess I don't understand why they didn't realize there were only so many trees and build huge boats before it got to such a point of no return. They might have had a better chance shipping everyone out and trying to find new land with more space for a growing population.

[LordBifford]

Probably the same reason we're knowingly destroying the Earth. There are people who have a vested interest in destructive industries and who either don't care or don't believe in predictions of environmental disaster.

[megaswenson]

I bet religion played a huge part in the decision to stay. Religion mandated staying with the statues, while it allowed them to delude themselves into expecting some sort of miraculous salvation scenario.

But remember that the trees disappeared over many generations. Latter generations probably didn't realize that there had once been trees all over the island, and so didn't notice the dwindling until it was too late. Now as to why they didn't bother to plant NEW trees....

[thatsMrSmileytoyou]

We all live on an island, it's called Earth. The next 10-50 years will dertemine its course

[PaulUmbarger]

So, they cut down the trees to move the moai, which led to fewer trees, which led to fewer birds, which led to less food, which led to warfare? One has to wonder why they cut even the saplings though. Wouldn't they ahve had to wait fro some of the smaller trees to grow up before starting a new statue?

[BCT071]

And what will humanity learn from this?

Absolutely nothing.

The last human to die on this planet will die with the remains of the second last person to die in his stomach.

We care only for ourselves and the now.

The future is for others to worry about until the future arrives and slaps you in the face.

[youseeityoudont]

Its a viable theory!

[feathon]

bitish scientists once more speak rubbish & try to explain the unexplain with silly theories.Its bloody obvious!alien creatures made them.

[basketballkingmidget]

made what???

[Belluschi85]

daz not true......daz just a fucking theory....they cant prove that

[toamaori]

This is a lesson to the whole world, shrink the world down to the size of Rapanui and this is the lesson the Rapanui ancestors have left for the whole world. Do we do the same thing to our whole planet?

[ralphieboogerbottoms]

The Donner party weren't even on an island and they ate their kids! Besides, according to Island Design Magazine, palm trees are so outdated! Get it? Out"DATED"?

[baggu250]

Would love to go there.

[Zimtok5]

As scientists have discovered, the island must have been completely enveloped by coconuts. The locals, never having experienced swallowing a Bounty bar before, died soon after their upper intestinal tract attempted to digest this foreign product and rendered their diminished, fleshy bodies into a slew of convulsions and internal hemorrhaging.

[rez3]

beware of the Intelligence Trap! sometimes smart people make smart explanations that are wrong

[ifyoureadthisyousuck]

they dug them selves into a hole.

[DolganoFF]

Incredible!