Skiing's Future

[tirolski]

I ain’t got nothing against no Neandethals, might have some in me too, never checked.

How hunting with wolves helped humans outsmart the Neanderthals

Forty thousand years ago in Europe our ancestors formed a crucial and lasting alliance that enabled us to finish off our evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals

www.theguardian.com

 

[Brownski]

I like to think that Neanderthals evolved into Sasquatch and live on in the shadows

 

[Ripitz]

Dogs came along and the rest is history.
I often look to guidance from dogs, but don’t blame them

I’ve heard people can’t be trusted unless they are dog people.

 

[tirolski]

I like to think that Neanderthals evolved into Sasquatch and live on in the shadows

To get back on topic.

Sasquatch are good skiers too.
A telemarker can now take every bit as steep a slope as an alpine skier. To some though, the telemark skier is still viewed as the Neanderthal on skis, ?
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A Brief History of Skiing - Main Street Adventure Tours

The ski may have been invented on the Russian steppes(something that we think were skis were found by archeologists dating back over 5000years), but the Scandinavians certainly perfected it. Almost every stage of development of the ski we owe to the heath stompers of the untrammeled North...

ashland-tours.com

 

[Ripitz]

I’m skiing and eating gummies all of this week and next week. That’s about as far as my brain cares to think about right now.

Make sure you wait a while before eating another. Learned that lesson.

 

[Cornhead]

But not before we get a chance to mine the shit out of space and ruin our universe too!

Ruin the universe, made me laugh. Earth has been through worse than humans, it'll be here and fine long after we are gone. Even if we decide to nuke ourselves.

 

[tirolski]

Ruin the universe, made me laugh. Earth has been through worse than humans, it'll be here and fine long after we are gone. Even if we decide to nuke ourselves.

Yup.
Just another day in paradise for the worms in the bottom of the ocean suckin energy from the vents.

 

[TheGreatAbyss]

the rich will disappear to New Zealand or Tasmania

More like Siberia, Greenland, Alaska and the Yukon. Don't worry, skiing will continue to exist somewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountain_peaks_of_Greenland

 

[Sbob]

The real story

 

[Ripitz]

Now fire up the diesel and get those darn lifts spinning!!

Lifts? We don’t need no stinkin lifts!