• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    OK, that’s not as nuts as some of these. So what are the artifacts?

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      2 months ago

      Sorry… you think believing the Ancient Egyptians had electricity because those things look kind of like electrical insulators isn’t nuts? Because I have news for you- two things can look alike and be totally different things.

      This, for example, is not a petrified screw. It’s a crinoid. A once-living sea creature.

      I don’t know what those Egyptian things are, but it is definitely nuts to assume they’re electrical insulators just because they resemble them.

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          2 months ago

          It’s the “stem” of an ancient sea creature (an animal, not a plant) from about 400 million years ago that looked something like this:

          This is sea lily, one of its modern descendants:

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            2 months ago

            Ah, so that’s where screws come from. TIL!

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          2 months ago

          Don’t worry, I got your joke!