IrcsomeBot | <ahoneybun> Haha | 03:30 |
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IrcsomeBot | <ahoneybun> That tweet is blowing up lol. | 03:31 |
valorie | I still haven't tried wayland, but I should on my travel lappy | 20:24 |
valorie | which these days functions as a test box | 20:24 |
valorie | but first I need to upgrade this box before Thomas grabs it away from me and does it | 20:25 |
valorie | RikMills: this might be somewhere close to you? https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/uk/worlds-oldest-family-tree-scli-scn-intl-gbr/index.html | 23:15 |
valorie | Hazleton North long cairn, in England is what the photo says | 23:16 |
RikMills | valorie: about 20 miles from me :) | 23:19 |
valorie | yowza | 23:19 |
valorie | they say they have created the oldest family tree in the world because of the excellent DNA preservation | 23:19 |
valorie | the stone age was a long time ago | 23:20 |
valorie | before computers even! | 23:20 |
RikMills | well, computers not made of stone ;) | 23:22 |
RikMills | if you believe what some ancient monuments were for | 23:23 |
valorie | silicon is rock..... | 23:24 |
RikMills | true | 23:24 |
RikMills | sadly doesn't seem to be much to see on the ground, otherwise I might have been tempted to jump in the car tomorrow and go look | 23:25 |
valorie | right, the circles could help the ancients predict solstices etc. | 23:25 |
RikMills | and post some pics | 23:25 |
valorie | happy solstice everyone | 23:25 |
RikMills | indeed | 23:25 |
valorie | and really, the greeks had some astronomical instruments that were pretty sophisticated | 23:26 |
valorie | we're not sooooo smart compared to the ancients | 23:27 |
RikMills | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism | 23:27 |
RikMills | that is fascinating | 23:27 |
valorie | but damn we have them beat on modern plumbing | 23:27 |
valorie | lol | 23:27 |
valorie | yeah, I tried to read up on that machine | 23:27 |
valorie | and could not entirely grasp the math | 23:27 |
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