you do realize that the communication issue is still there, right?

their plan:
send robot, robot says "i'm going in the cave, talk to you in a few hours".
a few minutes later, mission control on earth hears the message.
robot goes down the cave, takes pictures and samples, then comes back up.
robot says "ok guys, I'm back, here's the pictures, I'll have more on the samples in a few hours".

your plan:
send man, man says "i'm going in the cave, talk to you in a few hours".
a few minutes later, mission control on earth hears the message.
man goes down the cave, takes pictures and samples, says "wow", then comes back up.
man says "ok guys, I'm back, check my facebook page for the pictures, I'll have more on the samples in a few hours".

see title

nope. I say masturbating moron.

obviously, we need to make copyright longer, to keep people from making changes to our heritage!

this is not funny.

if you'll allow me to be pedantic: there might still be a hell, even if the scripture is false. I.e. the scripture can be right about some things (there's a hell for cowards) but wrong about others (unbelievers don't necessarily go to hell).

no, you're wrong. when the hunter gatherer decides whether or not to make camp in a clearing, they need to count how many tents will fit into the area, i.e. measure the area with the unit "tent"; they will round down to get the maximum number of tents. when they decide to call friends in order to carry pieces of a kill back to the village, they divide the weight of the kill by the quantity that one friend can carry; they will round up to get the minimum number of friends.
measurement is counting, even if you round the result up or down.
personally, I think there are problems with the methods used by the researchers for this result. even if they were right and these people don't see that integers have the same properties as certain points on a straight line, it would still be irrelevant with respect to the naturalness of putting numbers on a line. It would just mean they didn't need to work with numbers a lot.

Counting and measurement are the same thing, by definition of "measurement". When you measure something, you just count the number of units.

Once a significant percentage of the population becomes interested in measuring pieces of land for various purposes, people will start associating numbers to lines.
Because the amount of food is proportional to the surface of your land, and then... I personally feel it's quite natural, in this context, to associate numbers to geometrical constructs.