It's too bad that the actual Easter Island statues actually had bodies underneath the ground...

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106129

>> ^Fusionaut:

It's too bad that the actual Easter Island statues actually had bodies underneath the ground...
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106129


You just blew my mind. I never knew about this.

Oh come on, everyone knows the answer to this one.
http://www.memecreator.com/meme/ancient-aliens

>> ^Fusionaut:

It's too bad that the actual Easter Island statues actually had bodies underneath the ground...
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106129


But surely this is just a smaller scale proof of concept of what you could do with a lot more people.

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>> ^Fusionaut:

It's too bad that the actual Easter Island statues actually had bodies underneath the ground...
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106129


Why is that "too bad"?

>> ^siftbot:

Tags for this video have been changed from 'ropes, archaeologist, replica, theory, move' to 'ropes, archaeologist, replica, theory, move, easter island, moai' - edited by xxovercastxx


Why would you change tags to include words already in the title? Does the search function not use the title to find videos?

>> ^zombieater:

>> ^siftbot:
Tags for this video have been changed from 'ropes, archaeologist, replica, theory, move' to 'ropes, archaeologist, replica, theory, move, easter island, moai' - edited by xxovercastxx

Why would you change tags to include words already in the title? Does the search function not use the title to find videos?


http://videosift.com/talk/A-couple-of-little-questions-about-the-Sift?loadcomm=1#comment-233837
@lucky760: "...I find it totally reasonable to have terms repeated..."

http://videosift.com/talk/VideoSift-101-tags?loadcomm=1#comment-783325
@lucky760: "Regarding the issue of repeating terms in title and tags, it's encouraged..."

http://videosift.com/talk/TagsTitle?loadcomm=1#comment-262237
@lucky760: "...it's frequently very important that terms in the title also appear in tags."

^Thank you!

My unrequited curiosity is making me second this question.>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^Fusionaut:
It's too bad that the actual Easter Island statues actually had bodies underneath the ground...
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106129

Why is that "too bad"?

1986.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Pavel

http://web.archive.org/web/20071218092111/http://www.museumsnett.no/kon-tiki/Research/Papers/walking_statue.html

@iaui, @xxovercastxx, @spoco2...

I just think that the test should be done with an model that is the right size, otherwise this experiment is using inaccurate data.

>> ^zombieater:

>> ^siftbot:
Tags for this video have been changed from 'ropes, archaeologist, replica, theory, move' to 'ropes, archaeologist, replica, theory, move, easter island, moai' - edited by xxovercastxx

Why would you change tags to include words already in the title? Does the search function not use the title to find videos?


I used to think the same thing but a lot of people like to click on tags (something I had never really considered) so I started to put them there.