Long before the Sumerians, there lived a civilisation on the northern shores of the Black Sea that we call the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture. We have no written records from this neolithic race, but we know that they lived in large settlements of tens-of-thousands. They worked copper, and tended to livestock and grain 7,000 years ago. In this age, we also see mass burials and battles at sites like Scheltz Asparn, Hesse, Talheim, and the infamous Tollense valley later. The presence hundreds of skeletons exhumed at some of these sites hint at large scale, organised battle. They were not the only sedentary and sprawling peoples to inhabit Europe in this deeply archaic part of human prehistory. While most people will say that Sumerians of 5,500 years ago built the first civilisation, there were other cultures in parts of the world that supported large and organised populations on their agriculture that are far more ancient. #antiquity #history #ancient #cucuteni #trypillia #neolithic #chalcolithic #civilisation #origin #sumerians #mesopotamia #prehistory #stoneage

So it was the catch tower, not Booster 13, that caused today’s launch abort.

The Danish Navy has boarded the Chinese vessel, Yi Peng 3, after the ship dragged its anchor along the seabed and destroyed undersea communications and gas lines.

Forward flap 90% happy

No booster catch attempt on IFT-6 but a good orbital insertion for Starship. Let’s see re-entry 😈

If you enter a roundabout and drive all the way around the circle so you exit heading in the opposite direction to the direction you entered in, have you done a 180 or a 360?