Spontaneous or duplicate invention.

[worth1]

I was watching a video on stone similarly in Egypt and Peru.
The aliens started popping up.
How could two separate societies come up with practically the same thing?
It's pretty common all things considered.

[Shule]

It happens a lot, even in this day and age.

As for why, I don't know, but it often happens at the same time in different parts of the world, too.

Oh. Actually, you said Egypt? Well, Egyptians did make boats and sail to South America zillions of years ago, so I've read.

A particular rare thing doesn't happen very often. However, you don't have to look very far to find a rare thing, as long as you're not particular about what kind of rare thing it is. I'm not saying that explains the phenomenon, fully.

[worth1]

I figured out how to dice an onion on my own.
One person said there's no way someone could do that
My reply was someone had to figure it out without being taught.
Why can't several people do it on their own.
He had went to some cooking school with his wife.

[Shule]

Even in nature, the same mutations have been known to happen independently in different places. If you consider how many genes are in a genome, the odds for a particular one might seem to be pretty rare. (But it's not like only one gene gets to mutate every generation to the exclusion of all others; so, the number of genes in a genome doesn't actually matter in this context.)

[Shule]

Anyway, this is one of the reasons I think intellectual property laws need to be reworked, so early adopters don't steal everything from everyone else who makes the same thing, leaving future generations with little they can do (until like 160 years later when copyrights are expiring).

[worth1]

Anyway, this is one of the reasons I think intellectual property laws need to be reworked, so early adopters don't steal everything from everyone else who invents the same thing, leaving future generations with little they can do (until like 160 years from now when copyrights start expiring).

Harley Davidson tried to copyright or whatever their sound.
Seriously.
One woman acclaimed nothing sounds like a Harley when I fired off my Triumph..I told her it's a Triumph and her mouth fell open..
Several years ago Harley tried to sue Honda for making a v twin engine.

[worth1]

I don't think the Egyptians or anyone else ever sailed to the Americas that long ago.
But some people and some religions think so.
People spent years trying to prove it to no avail.
They even blew up the Spiro Indian mound looking for proof.
I said think which gives me a get out of jail free card in case I'm wrong.
I used to live next to the Spiro mounds and we went to a giant tomato farm there every year to buy tomatoes for canning.
They were good tomatoes too but they were the ones that didn't make the tomato size grade but bigger or smaller.
It's in Oklahoma.
Look it up.