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Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:57 pm**

Its a wonder we dont get left behind.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:29 pm**

Now apply that to time travel.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:38 pm**

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:29 pm Now apply that to time travel.

"But... but... Rome was *right here* two thousand years ago!!" [suffocates in vacuum]

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:05 pm**

coopasonic wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:48 pm That's a relatively cool visualization.

Agreed, but the conclusion was... bizarre.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:26 pm**

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:05 pm
coopasonic wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:48 pm That's a relatively cool visualization.
Agreed, but the conclusion was... bizarre.

Gotta agree.

I'm pretty sure the DNA helix has nothing to do with orbital mechanics. Highlighting irrelevant patterns is pseudoscience.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:02 pm**

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:26 pm I'm pretty sure the DNA helix has nothing to do with orbital mechanics. Highlighting irrelevant patterns is pseudoscience.

Helix, helio both hellenic words, from the very grandson of Prometheus and Pandora. This is life!!!! Not coincidence. There Fnords are everywhere, you have but to look.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:10 pm**

It's not heli-copter, it's helico-pter.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:40 pm**

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:26 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:05 pm
coopasonic wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:48 pm That's a relatively cool visualization.
Agreed, but the conclusion was... bizarre.
Gotta agree.

I'm pretty sure the DNA helix has nothing to do with orbital mechanics. Highlighting irrelevant patterns is pseudoscience.

I stopped watching after the orbital animation. That was the part I wanted to share.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:28 pm**

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:02 pm
Holman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:26 pm I'm pretty sure the DNA helix has nothing to do with orbital mechanics. Highlighting irrelevant patterns is pseudoscience.
Helix, helio both hellenic words, from the very grandson of Prometheus and Pandora. This is life!!!! Not coincidence. There Fnords are everywhere, you have but to look.

Q is a horrible, dangerous parody of the SubGenius.

We should have seen it coming.

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:57 pm**

This is Christopher Marlowe, a playwright contemporary of Shakespeare.

More largely, it's a fun but worrying example of what we have to expect from Deep Fake manipulation.

Source portrait from 1585:

Spoiler:

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:34 pm**

Was his head really too small for his body?

Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:05 pm**

Back then heads were smaller due to less gravity.

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:01 pm**

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:34 pm Was his head really too small for his body?

Big blowsy clothing was fashionable because good fabric was a luxury. "Unnecessary" cloth signaled (or imitated) wealth.

The short little stripes all over the garment are actually openings revealing that there's a whole other layer of expensive cloth underneath. Dude has it going on!

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:16 pm**

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:18 pm**

Zoot suits!

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:21 pm**

Was an ok song.

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:08 pm**

FWIW, Marlowe was a fascinating guy.

A contemporary and perhaps a friend of the young William Shakespeare, he was a playwright, an atheist, a bisexual, and probably a spy for the Elizabethan secret police charged with tracking down Catholic conspirators against the crown. He died in a tavern brawl under mysterious circumstances, as other known agents of the crown were involved.

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:16 pm**

His spy code name was Little Sir Noggin.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:37 pm**

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:13 pm**

Somebody dies.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:36 pm**

Heh. I'd rather have the veggies than donuts.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:21 pm**

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:16 pm

That lady on the right really likes what she sees.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:42 pm**

She looks like my mother.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:57 pm**

Wait for it...

No... wait *all the way* for it.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:24 pm**

Her shirt says "New Buffalo", so they were making one.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:51 pm**

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 4:51 pm**

I can't decide whether this is awesome or absurdly tacky.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 5:08 pm**

I think the pharaohs would have liked it.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:14 pm**

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Posted: **Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:57 am**

Holman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 4:51 pmI can't decide whether this is awesome or absurdly tacky.

I think that depends entirely on how the average Egyptian feels about the Pharaohs.

If they're like the English "Royal Family" and are a national treasure, then it makes perfect sense to honor them. If they're long-forgotten tourist curiosities, then it's wildly tacky.

*Edit: The first answer on Quora (super reliable, I know) comes back with this:

They all brag about how they’re descended from the Pharaohs and how they built the greatest monuments. (Even though it’s unlikely that their personal relatives were Pharaohs.)

My husband, who is Egyptian, loves to brag about how Egypt was the first civilization. When I tell him that, actually, the Sumerians came in just a little before the Egyptians, he says “Well, we’re the first great civilization.”

Want to start a huge fight? Try telling an Egyptian that the pyramids weren’t built by Egyptians, but by foreign slaves. Or even worse? Try telling them the pyramids were built by space aliens. They will tear you a new one.

What do you mean they were built by aliens!?!? How dare you!? My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather lost his arm when a block crushed it building the Pyramid Khufu. (I assume…) How dare you disrespect his legacy!

Many Egyptians also like to think of themselves as Egyptologists and go on and on about ancient Egyptian history as if they were experts (even though they know as much as the average person). My husband has, many times, tried to explain the ancient Egyptian gods to me, only to realize that I actually know more about them than he does (because I did a report of them…in Middle School).

This is all mostly around foreigners and anyone else who isn’t from Egypt. It’s a way of showing pride in their country and culture. Whenever it’s just a group of Egyptians all by themselves, they mostly just complain about the state of things, and how the country’s going to hell, and how things used to be so much better. I think this is typical of people from most countries, though.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:20 am**

I have seen some of these before, but some were hilarious.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:47 am**

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:20 am I have seen some of these before, but some were hilarious.

Reminds me of the time in college I had a calculus exam and one problem dealt with building a tool shed. I attempted the problem but wrote at the end "Screw it, I'll just use the neighbors tools." She actually gave me half credit for being funny.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:40 am**

Lassr wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:47 am
Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:20 am I have seen some of these before, but some were hilarious.

Reminds me of the time in college I had a calculus exam and one problem dealt with building a tool shed. I attempted the problem but wrote at the end "Screw it, I'll just use the neighbors tools." She actually gave me half credit for being funny.

Is this your neighbor?

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:40 am**

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:57 am *Edit: The first answer on Quora (super reliable, I know) comes back with this:
Want to start a huge fight? Try telling an Egyptian that the pyramids weren’t built by Egyptians, but by foreign slaves. Or even worse? Try telling them the pyramids were built by space aliens. They will tear you a new one.

FWIW, I think scholars now believe that the pyramids were built by paid laborers and not by slaves.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:47 am**

Ehhh, they probably paid them dirt wages.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:03 pm**

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:47 amEhhh, they probably paid them dirt wages.

Beer and bread, maybe.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:35 pm**

I distinctly remember in The Ten Commandmentsmovie they used Jewish slaves and Moses saved them. From then on the Egyptians had to source out the labor to Cimmarians. Which pissed of Conan. And he destroyed the Egyptians with plagues.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:48 pm**

Paingod wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:03 pm
Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:47 amEhhh, they probably paid them dirt wages.
Beer and bread, maybe.

And the glory of preparing Pharaoh's tomb.

Really, monument building was a public works project when the Nile was in flood. "The three stages of the Egyptian flood cycle were Akhet, the time of the Nile flood, Peret, the sowing time, and Shemu, the time of harvest." Most of the workforce was idle during Akhet.

Posted: **Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:57 pm**

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