• FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        2 months ago

        Apparently, muricans are a lost tribe of Sumerians.

        Hold on a sec. I need to write up some golden tablets or something.

        • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          2 months ago

          Well you see, in 1793, 'Merica requested the metric artifacts from France so we could be metric too. France sent over a kilogram, but the shipment was lost at sea. And that was a little sad.

          All joking aside, US feet, inches, pounds, and so on have been secretly really metric since 1893.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            2 months ago

            eh.

            Fun fact. if you use your knucklebones to count instead of fingers, and you use multiplication instead of addition you can get to 144 counting on your fingers. (i.e. one digit on the second hand is equal to a full hand- 12- on the first.)

            yeah. some bullshit about that being why we have 12 hours, and 12 inches in a foot, is totally going into those golden tablets.

            (IIRC, we have 12 hours because there was 10 hours of daylight in Egypt, and an hour on either end for twilight. that evolved into the 24 hour system we have today.)

            I think I’ll call my new religion Bullcrap Bulk’rap bulq’rap.

          • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
            8·
            2 months ago

            Sumerians also tried to metrify, but the copper weights they bought mysteriously corroded

      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Well if we want to get pedantic, every unique thing passed around and spread is a meme. Jokes, art styles, idioms, words, greetings, most social behavior really. And you can go a step further and say diseases, species, even all of life is a meme.

        And if there ever was a place to use this definition of meme it would be… LinguisticMemes, but this is a good second place.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    46·
    2 months ago

    If I remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one, if not the main cause of their extintion.

    Also constructions like Gobekli tepe, with it’s carvings and decorations, predate the extintion of Mammoths by something like 6000 years.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    36·
    2 months ago

    Weren’t there like full blown civilizations at that point? Kinda weird to refer to mammoths as if it were some stone age prehistoric period and be surprised that someone could craft something like this then lol

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    The eyes don’t make sense to me. How did they know to use this pattern? Are there some really big grasshoppers out there?

    • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      No doubt there are insects big enough to be able to see the patterns on the eyes without magnification.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago
        1. Exactly this. Just eyesight & time.
        2. Not to mention that some insects even have a bit of contrast between the lenses so it’s easier to understand they are compounded.
        3. And additionally due to individual lenses compounded eyes arent smooth - by reflecting light at different angles you can make the “bumps” obvious.
        4. Also if there is like a water droplet on grasshoppers eyes you can clearly see it’s surface structure. Just like you can see individual pixels on your (high dpi phone?) screen the same way.

        Tho I bet they didn’t study this ones eyes:

        It’s called a fairy wasp (wiki/Megaphragma_mymaripenne) and it’s only the third smallest insect known.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’m sure they had plenty of experience with bugs in their environment, both alive and dead. I’m sure you can see the eyes pretty well close up.