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Your photos made me check my hard drive for some photos of mine. Great memories. As I said statues are most magical at sunrise.

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Yes, most of the island shores are rocky. Dark, black rocks. but the Pacific ocean is wild and magically blue.

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We did not take scooters, surely doable, but we decided for a small open top SUV. In August weather was really unpredictable, warm, but not too warm, windy, rain came several times as a shower and sun came out minutes later.

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This is the crater lake. This is where I imagine rapamycin was found (from description in papers) and it is truly the most magical part of the island. No statues around, but this is where ancient islanders lived.

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#22

Hello Rapa Peoples!

I saw this online in the news - a bit on the Easter Island statues. Cool to see how big they are - how much is hidden in the ground.

Link: Rarely Seen Images Of Things We've Always Wondered About - Democratic Underground

And a rare dissected nervous system artifact in my museum follows this piece on the Rapa Heads in “Rarely Seen Images Of Things We’ve Always Wondered About!”

Funny huh - how everything is connected - we just don’t know it.

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#23

@Agetron Looking good there buddy! What you’re doing is working. :slight_smile:

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#24

I would love to visit Rapa Nui one day. Hopefully being on rapamycin will help provide us all with many years of opportunity.

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#25

I would join :blush:! Any plans, yet?

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#26

Not yet. We are just thinking about it. I would love to cruise there, but my understanding is that that is iffy–you can get all the way there, encounter bad weather, and then you are unable to go ashore.

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#28

A NEW DISCOVERY AT EASTER ISLAND COULD REWRITE HISTORY.

This just showed up… they believe Rapa Nui islanders created a unique language… written on wood that predates European conquest in 1720.

Wonder what it says?

Cool.

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#29

And here’s a bit more on the language of Rapa Nui:

Fascinating.

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#30

Before I die at a ripe old age of 120 years I definitely need to go see this mystical place?

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#31

Probably not a lot of light pollution out there. I wonder if they have a switch that just shuts off all the lights. (kidding)

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#32

And now for something I bet you didn’t know…

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#33

And another thing I bet you didn’t know… you can buy (in Costco Taiwan it seems) some pretty large Moai statues! I love these things… this is what we should send to Richard Miller and his team as a gift :smile:

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#34

Oh, but I want one with a belly and a little jock strap.

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