2009-12-29 / Letters

Traces of copper wire

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists recently found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: “California archaeologists, finding traces of 200- year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.”

One week later, The Bee-Picayune in Beeville, Texas, reported the following: After digging as deep as 30 feet in his cow pasture near Bee House, which is just south of Evant and Purmela, Bubba, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, before Al Gore invented the Internet, Texas had already gone wireless. Just makes you proud to be from Texas! Ain’t Texas great!
L T Mick
Kempner

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