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Re:Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015) by rebuilder on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:53AM (#16014058)
It's impressive, yes. And probably we don't know exactly how it was done. But that's not the same as saying it's an unexplained mystery - we just don't know which particular methods they used, even if we know one or more ways in which it could have been done.
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Re:Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015) by IncRnd on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:03AM (#16015495)
> And probably we don't know exactly how it was done. But that's not the same as saying it's an unexplained mystery

That is the meaning of unexplained mystery, something mysterious and unexplained.

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Re:Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015) by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:40AM (#16014974)
"(W)e don't know exactly how it was done" is exactly what "unexplained mystery" means.
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Re:Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015) by tomcooks on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:39PM (#16016853)
As opposed to explained mysteries? /s
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Re:Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015) by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @07:08PM (#16019244)
An explained mystery would be something for which the method would be non-obvious, but nonetheless the method was known. Like a magic trick the solution of which were pubic knowledge - mysterious but explained in sources in the public domain.
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Re:Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015) by rebuilder on Friday December 29, 2017 @11:08AM (#16030119)
So what's something where we can come up with several plausible methods, but don't have the evidence to conclusively decide which method actually was used?
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