6 December 2014 - time travel 1

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A lone time traveler arrives on a prehistoric Pacific island—stranded in an unknown era, the technology has failed. Falling in by necessity with pre-humans who did not yet have fire, the traveler scratches increasingly despairing pleas into every object that may endure and be discovered by colleagues in the distant future. At last one is found, but to no avail. Its message is too cryptic—WHEN.

clue:

Look up the paper in Nature this week by Josephine Joordens and 20 other authors, and find the drawing of the Homo erectus scratches on the shell. Turn it upside down and read it.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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