Huge ancient cities discovered in Amazon

Not ancient, not huge, not novel, not previously undiscovered, not advanced, not impressive unless you consider that they were built without the use of metal -- or anyway without much.
 
arthwollipot said:
I thought you were talking about this.
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facepalm


...Actually, a quick browse and I thought, myself, this was about Amazon the outfit, not Amazon the place. Only after I entered the thread anyway, despite expecting some Community trivia, did I see what it's about. ...So, I guess, great minds do think alike!


...Cool, those cities. Even if not quite ancient etc, as pointed out, but still. Gives you goosebumps, somehow, when you think of those people, those places, not mainstream Roman or Greek or Chinese, later completely genocided away into oblivion, at one time having such organized civilizations, long long ago.


...Random thought: Why Amazon, I wonder? Why'd they pick that name for their outfit? (Maybe just a random whim, picked by folks not really expecting anything this big, and only very tenuously linked to anything, like Google?)
 
Chanakya said:
...Random thought: Why Amazon, I wonder? Why'd they pick that name for their outfit? (Maybe just a random whim, picked by folks not really expecting anything this big, and only very tenuously linked to anything, like Google?)
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According to Bing AI:

Jeff Bezos named his company “Amazon” after the Amazon River in South America, which is the largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. He chose this name because he wanted his company to be the largest bookstore in the world. The name also begins with the letter “A,” which is at the beginning of the alphabet and was important for being at the top of alphabetical lists. According to How-To Geek, Bezos settled on the name “Amazon” after looking through the dictionary for an “A” name and liking the word because it sounded “exotic and different”.
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arthwollipot said:
According to Bing AI:
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That makes sense! Great name, in that case, nothing at all random about it.

Another tangential thought:
(Not to derail your thread, WP, at least not any more, beyond this post!)
...Sounds like a very well researched answer, but it's AI, right, so you never know if the thing's "hallucinated" all this up.
...And that's very easily remedied, surely. If every answer you get, is followed by a set of footnotes clearly linking to the source of every bit of it, then a quick click or two, as opposed to time-taking going through many links, can let you immediately verify this. Like Wikipedia, right there itself, so you don't waste time having to "research" if you wish to validate.
 
30 years ago the headline would probably have been "huge ancient cities discovered in Foyles".
 
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Chanakya said:
That makes sense! Great name, in that case, nothing at all random about it.

Another tangential thought:
(Not to derail your thread, WP, at least not any more, beyond this post!)
...Sounds like a very well researched answer, but it's AI, right, so you never know if the thing's "hallucinated" all this up.
...And that's very easily remedied, surely. If every answer you get, is followed by a set of footnotes clearly linking to the source of every bit of it, then a quick click or two, as opposed to time-taking going through many links, can let you immediately verify this. Like Wikipedia, right there itself, so you don't waste time having to "research" if you wish to validate.
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Yes, what it gave me did have footnotes - I edited those out to post them to the forum, and didn't follow the links. It should be easy enough to follow up, though. I just wasn't that invested in the answer beyond mild curiosity. :D
 
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