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.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
on 30 Aug 2024 11:51
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Sumerians also tried to metrify, but the copper weights they bought mysteriously corroded
vonxylofon@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 2024 14:13
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Rude.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 2024 11:59
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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 BullcrapBulk’rap bulq’rap.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 30 Aug 2024 13:19
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You can count up to 1023 without knucklebones if you use a positional representation.
TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net
on 30 Aug 2024 12:36
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This guy doesn’t get bronze age humor.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
on 30 Aug 2024 17:25
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Paleolithic mfers will see you writing a stone tablet and think “this fool doesn’t know how to sharpen a rock” 😂😂😂
It’s a screenshot of a Twitter post, that’s a meme right?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
on 31 Aug 2024 05:04
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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.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 30 Aug 2024 11:45
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How much for the weight? I’ll take two.
Asafum@feddit.nl
on 30 Aug 2024 14:15
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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
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net
on 30 Aug 2024 14:29
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To be fair it’s still hard to get over that Mammoths were still around at that point; it really feels like they’re from a much earlier era. Also hard to really grasp how advanced people were even that early on.
MadBob@feddit.nl
on 30 Aug 2024 14:36
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I think the pyramids at Giza were a few millennia old at that point eh?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
on 30 Aug 2024 17:14
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SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 2024 17:39
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Several, yes. Egypt, Uruk, Indus, etc
elucubra@sopuli.xyz
on 30 Aug 2024 14:29
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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.
Malgas@beehaw.org
on 30 Aug 2024 15:27
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Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
shalafi@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 2024 18:20
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Well, that’s a new word on me. Thought spell check corrected contemporary.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
on 30 Aug 2024 19:39
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Well, ice age ended and elephants still live.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
on 31 Aug 2024 08:21
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I… am so disappointed this didn’t go where, for a split second, my brain thought it was going.
Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one
Chickens are dinosaurs - and humans are mammoths!!
tetris11@lemmy.ml
on 31 Aug 2024 10:51
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birds are the continuation of the theropod dinosaur lineage.
humans are the continuation of the early synapsid lineage also present at the time (which later gave rise to the early mammal progenitor).
when people say birds are dinosaurs they mean the lineage didn’t branch as much as it did for humans, which I think is more survivorship bias than anything.
People say birds are dinosaurs because every living thing is in every clade of it’s ancestors which means they are dinosaurs. They’re also a lot of other things from all of the other clades so they’re not saying that birds are just dinosaurs, but that they are part of Dinosauria and every other clade of their ancestors and so too will all of their descendants be.
Yes, one could say birds have skeletons in the same manner. I guess I’m just trying to understand what the opposing position before was the great revelation birds are dinosaurs was uttered. I’m perpetually confused by this expression.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net
on 30 Aug 2024 14:33
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That’s nothing; Tigers and Pandas are still around in the same time period as the electronic device you used to post this!
When people are using mental interface devices to gravitate to their Mars colony it’ll be such a mindbender to realize ye olde memes were being made at the same time all those mammalian fossils from extinct species like elephants and rhinos were carbon dated to!
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 30 Aug 2024 16:10
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<img alt="A horrifying mashup image of Pepe the Frog blended with Tony the Tiger. Text: “Rare Pepe’s of antiquity. They’re grrrrrrreat!”" src="https://i.imgflip.com/91wyal.jpg">
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
on 30 Aug 2024 17:36
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MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
on 31 Aug 2024 12:25
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Not just the clean lines, but the smooth curves too. It’s difficult to do something like this and not make it all bumpy and uneven. Definitely lots of skill and time involved.
Etterra@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 2024 18:06
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That is a locust.
theangryseal@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 2024 20:18
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
on 31 Aug 2024 13:39
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One hopps grass the other grasses hopps.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
on 31 Aug 2024 03:47
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Just using some tiny mammoth population on an isolated island in Siberia to state “MAMMOTHS WERE STILL ROAMING THE EARTH WHEN BLAH BLAH BLAH” is somewhat disingenuous.
Gloomy@mander.xyz
on 31 Aug 2024 09:38
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Also pretending that 4000 years ago humans were still hunter gatherers or something (it’s kind of implied in the wording imo). 4000 years ago there were plenty of fairly developed civilisations around.
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
on 01 Sep 2024 01:26
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Roaming the earth means roaming all - or at least a very significant portion of - the earth, not some very isolated region. So I would say yes - if some tiny population of mammoths was still alive in some limited area at this time, they were not ‘roaming the earth’.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
on 31 Aug 2024 04:29
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Hematite = best tite
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works
on 31 Aug 2024 06:57
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No doubt there are insects big enough to be able to see the patterns on the eyes without magnification.
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
on 31 Aug 2024 12:22
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An alternative that I like to use in the lab is squinting and holding the sample really close to my face. Perhaps they used my method if the bugs weren’t big enough?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
on 31 Aug 2024 13:18
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I mean, yes (Im losing that ability as I age :(), but also it’s not that far fetched to just conclude all insects are built about the same.
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
on 31 Aug 2024 20:08
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For sure, I just like posting stupid things on memes.
I think your lab needs to get you a giant magnifying glass with a light so your squinting days can continue. They’re super nice for things that can’t go under a microscope. So far I’ve been lucky myself, but many of my colleagues my age experience the same problem. Some day I would like to get a macro camera so I can just show them pictures.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
on 31 Aug 2024 22:19
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Some day I would like to get a multi-camera bionic eye implants or like a Star Trek visor ribbed for my pleasure.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
on 31 Aug 2024 13:29
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Exactly this. Just eyesight & time.
Not to mention that some insects even have a bit of contrast between the lenses so it’s easier to understand they are compounded.
And additionally due to individual lenses compounded eyes arent smooth - by reflecting light at different angles you can make the “bumps” obvious.
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.
threaded - newest
What’s the meme here
That the Sumerian’s will use anything but metric.
Apparently, muricans are a lost tribe of Sumerians.
Hold on a sec. I need to write up some golden tablets or something.
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.
Sumerians also tried to metrify, but the copper weights they bought mysteriously corroded
Rude.
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
BullcrapBulk’rapbulq’rap.You can count up to 1023 without knucklebones if you use a positional representation.
This guy doesn’t get bronze age humor.
Paleolithic mfers will see you writing a stone tablet and think “this fool doesn’t know how to sharpen a rock” 😂😂😂
It’s a screenshot of a Twitter post, that’s a meme right?
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.
Let’s! You are absolutely right, of course.
How much for the weight? I’ll take two.
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
To be fair it’s still hard to get over that Mammoths were still around at that point; it really feels like they’re from a much earlier era. Also hard to really grasp how advanced people were even that early on.
I think the pyramids at Giza were a few millennia old at that point eh?
Not millennia, but several centuries.
Oh, silly me, haha.
Several, yes. Egypt, Uruk, Indus, etc
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.
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
Count it!
Well, that’s a new word on me. Thought spell check corrected contemporary.
Well, ice age ended and elephants still live.
I… am so disappointed this didn’t go where, for a split second, my brain thought it was going.
Chickens are dinosaurs - and humans are mammoths!!
birds are the continuation of the theropod dinosaur lineage.
humans are the continuation of the early synapsid lineage also present at the time (which later gave rise to the early mammal progenitor).
when people say birds are dinosaurs they mean the lineage didn’t branch as much as it did for humans, which I think is more survivorship bias than anything.
People say birds are dinosaurs because every living thing is in every clade of it’s ancestors which means they are dinosaurs. They’re also a lot of other things from all of the other clades so they’re not saying that birds are just dinosaurs, but that they are part of Dinosauria and every other clade of their ancestors and so too will all of their descendants be.
Yes, one could say birds have skeletons in the same manner. I guess I’m just trying to understand what the opposing position before was the great revelation birds are dinosaurs was uttered. I’m perpetually confused by this expression.
Birds are dinosaurs. Humans are not mammoths
Don’t tell me what I am and am not
That’s nothing; Tigers and Pandas are still around in the same time period as the electronic device you used to post this!
When people are using mental interface devices to gravitate to their Mars colony it’ll be such a mindbender to realize ye olde memes were being made at the same time all those mammalian fossils from extinct species like elephants and rhinos were carbon dated to!
<img alt="A horrifying mashup image of Pepe the Frog blended with Tony the Tiger. Text: “Rare Pepe’s of antiquity. They’re grrrrrrreat!”" src="https://i.imgflip.com/91wyal.jpg">
Holy fuck this carving looks absolutely beautiful
You too, huh? Something about it speaks to me. The simplicity, clean lines, dunno?
I think it’s something about the skill needed to make this and the fact that no machines were involved. It’s quite something though.
Modernist art deco, like it was made in the 1930s
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Not just the clean lines, but the smooth curves too. It’s difficult to do something like this and not make it all bumpy and uneven. Definitely lots of skill and time involved.
That is a locust.
Ur mom is a locust. Huht huht huht.
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c176c50e-f869-4b26-a2e1-42a8516cbb1e.gif">
Maybe, but a locus is a type of grasshopper.
grasshopper are light thin and green. that is easily double the mass, chonky, and looks like it’s ready swarm downtown LAPD
Locusts ARE grasshoppers. If enough grasshoppers group up in the same area they literally become locusts and fuck everything up.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust
One hopps grass the other grasses hopps.
Just using some tiny mammoth population on an isolated island in Siberia to state “MAMMOTHS WERE STILL ROAMING THE EARTH WHEN BLAH BLAH BLAH” is somewhat disingenuous.
Also pretending that 4000 years ago humans were still hunter gatherers or something (it’s kind of implied in the wording imo). 4000 years ago there were plenty of fairly developed civilisations around.
Is it a lie though?
Roaming the earth means roaming all - or at least a very significant portion of - the earth, not some very isolated region. So I would say yes - if some tiny population of mammoths was still alive in some limited area at this time, they were not ‘roaming the earth’.
Hematite = best tite
tite (or titi) means penis in my language
he ma means “him, mother” in my language
The eyes don’t make sense to me. How did they know to use this pattern? Are there some really big grasshoppers out there?
The aliens lent them a magnifying glass
No doubt there are insects big enough to be able to see the patterns on the eyes without magnification.
An alternative that I like to use in the lab is squinting and holding the sample really close to my face. Perhaps they used my method if the bugs weren’t big enough?
I mean, yes (Im losing that ability as I age :(), but also it’s not that far fetched to just conclude all insects are built about the same.
For sure, I just like posting stupid things on memes.
I think your lab needs to get you a giant magnifying glass with a light so your squinting days can continue. They’re super nice for things that can’t go under a microscope. So far I’ve been lucky myself, but many of my colleagues my age experience the same problem. Some day I would like to get a macro camera so I can just show them pictures.
Some day I would like to get a multi-camera bionic eye implants or like a Star Trek visor ribbed for my pleasure.
Tho I bet they didn’t study this ones eyes:
<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fipbk3dk5ycy71.jpg">
<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fticotimes.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F06%2FTinker-Bell-Wasp.jpg">
<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FCKcVTxBCiUwAlNKeovIrDLINdt6bFo6l8XHN2kf-9p4.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Ded0a4cf0210e088a2c1b4b31ca80d0a219fff88b">
It’s called a fairy wasp (wiki/Megaphragma_mymaripenne) and it’s only the third smallest insect known.
<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2F64.media.tumblr.com%2F19cc35b5219a7b6646d79d6f5272cac9%2F5dc003de0009b5c9-fc%2Fs1280x1920%2F5da1e8d847a50b6b0068a214d48da8dc21582572.png">
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.
Grasshoppers can get quite big
www.flickriver.com/photos/artour_a/266458852/