Post #805910 by TIKIGIKI on Sat, Oct 8, 2022 9:11 PM

I venture to say that this is probably a bit of typical media hyperbole. Never a flood without an "inundation"? Never a fire without a "conflagration"? Never a protest without an "insurrection"? The media just love buzz-words.

Those same statues have been there for quite some time and I seriously doubt that it's the very first fire they have been through. Lightning strikes of course, but humans often burned the grass, either intentionally or by accident. The moai have fallen over in many cases, or been deliberately toppled and yet still they remain. They are after all, made of very solid rock! Besides, it looks like a small grass fire, there being no significant forestation near them. The sort of thing here in Australia we'd probably piss out! Nothing short of some serious explosives would "permanently" damage them.

[ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2022-10-08 21:13:56 ]