• @SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
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    197 months ago

    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
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      47 months ago

      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.

      • FuglyDuck
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        277 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.world
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          177 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
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            7 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.

            • Sonotsugipaa
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              7 months ago

              You can count up to 1023 without knucklebones if you use a positional representation.