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Jaexyr
I'd let him split me
KongoOtto
I wanna touch the surfaaace
bronsonlug
Hands are bruised from breakin' rocks all day
PeteThePerv
smesh
Imonheretoomuch2
Those are some osha required footwear right there
coldcuttin
cracking post is that
Bytencoder
Saws are for wussies..
WhatUpDog3000
I ordered medium rare. Send it back.
cutthemalarkey
Your table is ready sir
knada242
In flip-flops
JimmyKrackKorn
Ear plugs and no safety glasses.
TurnThisShpAround
OSHA INTENSIFIES!
lawdhavemercy
I thought those were airpods
RodgerRodger
And sandals!
DrKonrad
"How did ancient Egyptians cut the rocks without our modern tech? It must have been impossible"
GiveMeBaconFriend
Underrated comment
joezap
Now what?
bloodydingo
naat024
Love the sound of it
ChristopherTallant
Butta
regicidalveggie
Marbleous
buddbilly
Instant table top
BriefausdemGeist
?2
sirdeadlock2
It's not just a boulder; it's a rock.
Eblray
Gneiss
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
He cleft it in twain! IN TWAIN!
DoomBloodGoddess
TheInitiated
From navel to chops!
TheTrashMancer
Better to think for half an hour, then to work five hours. Man knows what he's doing!
AlphaKenneyBody
“If you gave me 5 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 4 hours sharpening my axe” -Dumbledore the White
HenryLongfellowIII
I'd sharpen it 99% as good as possible in 30 minutes, then take a 3.5 hour nap.
fallsack
How do they get those in to begin with?
ThreeDogPileUp
Spit on it and go gently.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Hand drill, it's a mason's tool used with hammer
leechdemon
That cleavage, though...
victalany
Somebody needs to redo this and put dickbutt but also with nice cleavage. A lady dickbutt.
sturm24
He obviously has the great cleave feat!
pareidoliaperson
Spongebob narrator: *Wuan aurhr latur* ooohhh I what you did there!
WebDragonG3
Spathic
AnthonyBlumpkins
I had a risky pun, but this one was boulder
SmellySquatch
Underrated af
RoystonVaseyBaby
That tag, though...
buckbucker
I know the one...
IfILikeYourJokeITellYou
Nice.
somethingsomethingsomethingclever
So smooth.
pollypocketfullofposies
I remember few things from geology... except that "mica has perfect cleavage".
HatinS8N
Something tells me that in America there is an easier way
justanotherpervatwork
Yea, we hire someone else to do it.
Hahahahelpme
ItsSedimentaryWatson
hopethisoneworks
As op marks it mature
Dalael
Who downvotes this?
mwoodman
Sheer genius
ExogenousDataStructure
It’s not op’s fault.
G0MeatCube
Grimmerr
Which anime is this?
MasterofWar67
Darling in the franxx
Kyen155
Not his fault that he is.
Not any of ours
darkomen203
I was expecting cake
EneZio
That’s cause you fat
StapMeVittles
The internet has ruined you. One of us, one of us!!
Seiuz
Hahah, that's what it has come to alright.
theleftmostpotato
Soon...
Yourpoliticalpartyisaterroristorganization
It isnt?
SingaporeanHoodian
Maltrust
The cake is a lie.
FlyingButtPliers
I was expecting Wile E. Coyote noises of when rocks crush things.
CrazyEarl
Looked like layered cake.
Kaiga
Always has been.
Allworknoplay82
Alt rock
Danieltheengineer
Hard Rock.
NeverMetAGoodMod
Was anybody else nervous about the fact he's wearing sandals and for the first load of hammering his feet were soooo close?
BirdsInTheTrapSingMcnight
v
Virgilius142
Came down here to comment the same thing. +1
meankittykat10
No, why would we be nervous, it’s his feet, not mine!
sunnysloth
I feel sneakers would change a boulder falling on your foot
BlondJani
Well I am now!
rozwell51
If you listen carefully you can hear the sound change before the stone fractures. His main threat is from stone chips hitting his eyes.
maniacalGiggle
YESSSSS
dr0idknight
No safety glasses either.
StepfordWifi
Bombpier
Yoink.
hapshaugnessy
No. Because I’m here. That’s a him problem. :)
Hoodra
I didn't even realize they were sandals.
Thegreenbastardpartsunknown
You mean southeast asian steel-toes?
TakeTheStairs
not me
morpheaus86
He knew when it was about to cleave. Which is why he moved for the last few hits. But yes more procautions should have been taken.
He was wearing hearing protection.
goose9879
So safe .. socks and sandles
Murphquake49
There's a reason his nickname is Two-Foot... For now.
certainlynotaserialkiller
they are safety sandals
CometLaHal
toyboxx
I felt more concerned about his lack of eye protection.
Nivvi
Like any safety shoes would make any difference
Weedies617
He certainly should have something on besides sandals..
Having dropped a hammer or two in my time, I think it would help with non-boulder hazards
CoeurFranc
I was more concerned for his eyes.
Dinkleberryjuice
Its ok he has socks on.
bearizzlemckizzle
He actually doesn’t - his feet are just sandy
schrodingersasymmetric12gauge
Steel toed socks.
ReaperCDN
With how much that rock weighs, steel toes wouldn't do anything at all.
Midioto
Nope. But there are a lotta fist sized rocks that could come a falling down. Or steel spikes...
reineseele
He started with small spikes and small rocks. he build up an immunity.
mjmac
Steel toes will cut toes off if they go above the weight limit. Might be easier than pancake foot?
KeezieWeezie
Myth Busters debunked that
MrNecrophile
Oh snap, here I go youtube learning again.
Idontwantmybrothertoknowmyname
And this is how they built the pyramids
kenkenobi9
And this is how you build muscles!
IKindaLikeImgurAlot
tzk132
This is how the aliens built the pyramids*
georgerwerth2
I had the same thought. Bringing the stone from quarries miles away. Brutal work. Wasn’t union scale either! No OSHA!
LenneSamunai
and i came here to make that comment but some one beat me to it! +1
Only 1/4 out of 0.0000001% of a pyramid..
HoratioVelveteen
My thing about the Great Pyramid is how they aligned it to True North and incorporated the dimensions of our planet into it's height & perim
senseicombs
They used tempering to heat up the area that needed breaking. They used wood as wedges because all they had was soft copper alloy metals.
bravecatgaming
Over a million perfectly cut blocks and the ones at the base are millions of pounds. never bought the Egyptian history
SephiRothIRA
Don’t remember the documentary but it mentioned even with modern machinery it would be very difficult to build one.
Thousands of slaves working for 30+ years
couchcaster
Except they didn't have any metal this hard. Nothing harder than bronze.
IHuggedaCorgiToday
I don't see any aliens
smidkid
How did they lift the 70 tone blocks 300 feet and place them so perfect ? I haven't seen a convincing answer yet.
whyWontKeiraKnightleyReturnMyPhoneCalls
Ramps, log rolls, and dozens of slaves, probably. You can get a lot of shit done when you’re convinced your leader is a living god.
I said 70 tones 300 feet high. sorry logs, ramps and determination might struggle with that.
They might but that’s what the slavery is for
I believe there is no evidence of slavery or sophisticated tools to lift that weight that height, they had excellent masonry drills tho
OneUpperSteve
I think we’re missing a few steps.
FsImgur
Seems pretty straightforward. But how would use an owl to cut through the stone?
Muunk
No, the aliens did it.
ZeOberon
There's also a way you can use sand and a wooden plank to saw through sandstone, once you have the blocks, to make the brick shaped
LuminousExpanse
fun fact: check out "geopolymers" ... a theory involving the liquefaction and pouring of stone in a way that shows no evidence of 1/
having actually been liquefied and poured.
cosonfused
Pretty sure they used More than one guy though
Iatesomecoffeecups
Nope it was just one guy
He wasnt like, asked to either he just got a bit too drunk
finnlassy
So you’re saying that guy’s an alien?? ??
ko0ji9hu82718
Would have been even less tech than that. Mostly just other stones and copper
Spudworth
And lots of slaves.
myownname
They worker wage free for 5 years to live tax free (family including) forever. At least my teacher told me so.
CountAiight
You’re thinking of the White House
xielous0442
Nope. Aliens /s
As long as they didn't use Slavs. We all good
Pharaohs in adidas tracksuits and vodka bottles for urns.
joelataupe
Some say it was more like skilled workers working on it.
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Slaves can be skilled workers. Not all slavery was chattel slavery as practiced in the Americas. Hell, most slavery wasn't that
haadyy
Yes. For example Roman slaves were often skilled workers, some were teachers too.
mormacil
Yes but we have payment records of pyramid workers, slaves don't get paid.
sleepinggreenidea
Also worth pointing out how we throw around the term "slave" as if all cultures are interchangable, w/identical conceptions of class roles.
helenfrankannekeller
Uhm slavery is very old and global so ya
(DV if you want, but we want history to be simple, societies to be easy to compare, and people to fit into neat boxes. It's not like that.)
HogWashDiddler
Not for the for the pyramids. They were labors of love, built by the most skilled craftsman. Weve actually found a journal of one of the...
'Crew bosses'. Those workers were very well taken care of.
wutwutinthebuttt
But where did they get the hammer drills to make the holes for the wedges ??
ThePickliestRick
Chiseling
DevinCastellucci
Copper chisels mate
speershawks
Plugging chisels.
iamfarha
Slaves.
Nope, archeologists determined that the work crews had higher social standing than the common man, and consequently slaves
BLITEBOX
Sauce?
I knew they were not slaves, but they certainly weren't celebrities. Pretty sure it was just unemployed farmers
Pinyateh
They didn’t use tech like this but: use rocks to carve out the holes, use copper to make wedges and hammers. Would it take a long time? Yes
Achromos
But then they wouldn’t have time to use twitter or play video games! D:
mstrmrvn
Video games that the aliens gave to them /s
Gudhansson
They paid the slaves 0 coin/ day so thats all good
Historical evidence points towards the fact that the pyramids were built by paid labour, not slaves. And that garlic was part of their salar
Garlic != coin
BlueberryQuickjet
From the aliens duh
neilwatkinsfromaccounting
Meerlyy
Username checks out +1
DeanOMiite
Bitch it might be
AixHD
You can also just use a spike and hammer it right in. Or use a normal drill. Or use carefully positioned fires and then quench the stone
utgort
Yes if you had steel, they didn't.
TIL that fire is made out of steel, drills can't be made from anything but steel, and bronze can't be used to make tools
Nope, otherwise it won’t melt from the jet fuel they need to use, duh!
Supposedly they used a trick where you light a series of fires along the stone in a line to weaken points, and cause the same effect.
halfangel
Also they put wooden wedges aling the line then pour water onto them to expand the wood and break the stone.
HeladoDeBanana
That works with glass bottles too
feelthetensionsoonassomeonementionsme
thermal fracture
Klingon00
I don’t know about that but there are archeological finds with these wedges being used for sure.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
Nope the just threw human death and suffering at it until it was done.
RandomUserC137
Louis what are you doing on the IMGURs
TheSmogMonster
A fine tradition continued till today.
TheWarHymn
Doubt they could concentrate the heat to such precision, thermal fracture was usually used for mining or rough hewning. /
Cutting was usually done with a similar technique as shown above, but with wood wedges soaked in water to expand in the holes to fracture.
Taldur08
And people say they were stupid
Nordman0
No one said that.
Lucky246
I've never heard anyone say the Egyptians were stupid
HarryFrumvrk
I’ve never heard someone say that...
berlinson
Who ever said that?
YewPluckingShotMe
Same people had portable batteries! Stunning how little credit we give them.
And brain surgery
allmostthere1234
And cars that flew. If only we lived back then....
TomsKid
Ok. I am intrigued... Portable batteries? I am too lazy to Google
They weren't the most powerful
Theory that jars were used as batteries, similar to Leyden jars. Not yet proved, cool idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
They had very basic batteries that were in clay jars. They would attached needles to the leads and use it for medical stuff (?) I forget>
kwyjiboner
Only stupid people say that. Humans have had the same intellectual capacity for 100k years.
SmoothOpawriter
That’s not exactly true, we’ve been the same species during that time but our intelligence has absolutely evolved.
Just like how people weren't shorter back in the day
People got shorter because less nutrition in early agriculture (though more plentiful food) compared to hunting and gathering.
TheRicM
I wouldn't be surprised if we lost a lot of it along the way
MarcoPoloOnPollo
Funny you should say that. The Greeks possessed medical prowess in 500 BC that wasn't known after the Middle Ages (~1400AD)
Jaexyr
I'd let him split me
KongoOtto
I wanna touch the surfaaace
bronsonlug
Hands are bruised from breakin' rocks all day
PeteThePerv
smesh
Imonheretoomuch2
Those are some osha required footwear right there
coldcuttin
cracking post is that
Bytencoder
Saws are for wussies..
WhatUpDog3000
I ordered medium rare. Send it back.
cutthemalarkey
Your table is ready sir
knada242
In flip-flops
JimmyKrackKorn
Ear plugs and no safety glasses.
TurnThisShpAround
OSHA INTENSIFIES!
lawdhavemercy
I thought those were airpods
RodgerRodger
And sandals!
DrKonrad
"How did ancient Egyptians cut the rocks without our modern tech? It must have been impossible"
GiveMeBaconFriend
Underrated comment
joezap
Now what?
bloodydingo
naat024
Love the sound of it
ChristopherTallant
Butta
regicidalveggie
Marbleous
buddbilly
Instant table top
BriefausdemGeist
sirdeadlock2
It's not just a boulder; it's a rock.
Eblray
Gneiss
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
He cleft it in twain! IN TWAIN!
DoomBloodGoddess
TheInitiated
From navel to chops!
TheTrashMancer
Better to think for half an hour, then to work five hours. Man knows what he's doing!
AlphaKenneyBody
“If you gave me 5 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 4 hours sharpening my axe” -Dumbledore the White
HenryLongfellowIII
I'd sharpen it 99% as good as possible in 30 minutes, then take a 3.5 hour nap.
fallsack
How do they get those in to begin with?
ThreeDogPileUp
Spit on it and go gently.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Hand drill, it's a mason's tool used with hammer
leechdemon
That cleavage, though...
victalany
Somebody needs to redo this and put dickbutt but also with nice cleavage. A lady dickbutt.
sturm24
He obviously has the great cleave feat!
pareidoliaperson
Spongebob narrator: *Wuan aurhr latur* ooohhh I what you did there!
WebDragonG3
Spathic
AnthonyBlumpkins
I had a risky pun, but this one was boulder
SmellySquatch
Underrated af
RoystonVaseyBaby
That tag, though...
buckbucker
I know the one...
IfILikeYourJokeITellYou
Nice.
somethingsomethingsomethingclever
So smooth.
pollypocketfullofposies
I remember few things from geology... except that "mica has perfect cleavage".
HatinS8N
Something tells me that in America there is an easier way
justanotherpervatwork
Yea, we hire someone else to do it.
Hahahahelpme
ItsSedimentaryWatson
hopethisoneworks
As op marks it mature
Dalael
Who downvotes this?
mwoodman
Sheer genius
ExogenousDataStructure
It’s not op’s fault.
G0MeatCube
Grimmerr
Which anime is this?
MasterofWar67
Darling in the franxx
Kyen155
Not his fault that he is.
G0MeatCube
Not any of ours
darkomen203
I was expecting cake
EneZio
That’s cause you fat
StapMeVittles
The internet has ruined you. One of us, one of us!!
Seiuz
Hahah, that's what it has come to alright.
theleftmostpotato
Soon...
Yourpoliticalpartyisaterroristorganization
It isnt?
SingaporeanHoodian
Maltrust
The cake is a lie.
FlyingButtPliers
I was expecting Wile E. Coyote noises of when rocks crush things.
CrazyEarl
Looked like layered cake.
Kaiga
Always has been.
Allworknoplay82
Alt rock
Danieltheengineer
Hard Rock.
NeverMetAGoodMod
Was anybody else nervous about the fact he's wearing sandals and for the first load of hammering his feet were soooo close?
BirdsInTheTrapSingMcnight
Virgilius142
Came down here to comment the same thing. +1
meankittykat10
No, why would we be nervous, it’s his feet, not mine!
sunnysloth
I feel sneakers would change a boulder falling on your foot
BlondJani
Well I am now!
rozwell51
If you listen carefully you can hear the sound change before the stone fractures. His main threat is from stone chips hitting his eyes.
maniacalGiggle
YESSSSS
dr0idknight
No safety glasses either.
StepfordWifi
Bombpier
Yoink.
hapshaugnessy
No. Because I’m here. That’s a him problem. :)
Hoodra
I didn't even realize they were sandals.
Thegreenbastardpartsunknown
You mean southeast asian steel-toes?
TakeTheStairs
not me
morpheaus86
He knew when it was about to cleave. Which is why he moved for the last few hits. But yes more procautions should have been taken.
morpheaus86
He was wearing hearing protection.
goose9879
So safe .. socks and sandles
Murphquake49
There's a reason his nickname is Two-Foot... For now.
certainlynotaserialkiller
they are safety sandals
CometLaHal
toyboxx
I felt more concerned about his lack of eye protection.
Nivvi
Like any safety shoes would make any difference
Weedies617
He certainly should have something on besides sandals..
mwoodman
Having dropped a hammer or two in my time, I think it would help with non-boulder hazards
CoeurFranc
I was more concerned for his eyes.
Dinkleberryjuice
Its ok he has socks on.
bearizzlemckizzle
He actually doesn’t - his feet are just sandy
schrodingersasymmetric12gauge
Steel toed socks.
ReaperCDN
With how much that rock weighs, steel toes wouldn't do anything at all.
Midioto
Nope. But there are a lotta fist sized rocks that could come a falling down. Or steel spikes...
reineseele
He started with small spikes and small rocks. he build up an immunity.
mjmac
Steel toes will cut toes off if they go above the weight limit. Might be easier than pancake foot?
KeezieWeezie
Myth Busters debunked that
MrNecrophile
Oh snap, here I go youtube learning again.
Idontwantmybrothertoknowmyname
And this is how they built the pyramids
kenkenobi9
And this is how you build muscles!
IKindaLikeImgurAlot
tzk132
This is how the aliens built the pyramids*
georgerwerth2
I had the same thought. Bringing the stone from quarries miles away. Brutal work. Wasn’t union scale either! No OSHA!
LenneSamunai
and i came here to make that comment but some one beat me to it! +1
Bytencoder
Only 1/4 out of 0.0000001% of a pyramid..
HoratioVelveteen
My thing about the Great Pyramid is how they aligned it to True North and incorporated the dimensions of our planet into it's height & perim
senseicombs
They used tempering to heat up the area that needed breaking. They used wood as wedges because all they had was soft copper alloy metals.
bravecatgaming
Over a million perfectly cut blocks and the ones at the base are millions of pounds. never bought the Egyptian history
SephiRothIRA
Don’t remember the documentary but it mentioned even with modern machinery it would be very difficult to build one.
Bombpier
Thousands of slaves working for 30+ years
couchcaster
Except they didn't have any metal this hard. Nothing harder than bronze.
IHuggedaCorgiToday
I don't see any aliens
smidkid
How did they lift the 70 tone blocks 300 feet and place them so perfect ? I haven't seen a convincing answer yet.
whyWontKeiraKnightleyReturnMyPhoneCalls
Ramps, log rolls, and dozens of slaves, probably. You can get a lot of shit done when you’re convinced your leader is a living god.
smidkid
I said 70 tones 300 feet high. sorry logs, ramps and determination might struggle with that.
whyWontKeiraKnightleyReturnMyPhoneCalls
They might but that’s what the slavery is for
smidkid
I believe there is no evidence of slavery or sophisticated tools to lift that weight that height, they had excellent masonry drills tho
OneUpperSteve
I think we’re missing a few steps.
FsImgur
Seems pretty straightforward. But how would use an owl to cut through the stone?
Muunk
No, the aliens did it.
ZeOberon
There's also a way you can use sand and a wooden plank to saw through sandstone, once you have the blocks, to make the brick shaped
LuminousExpanse
fun fact: check out "geopolymers" ... a theory involving the liquefaction and pouring of stone in a way that shows no evidence of 1/
LuminousExpanse
having actually been liquefied and poured.
cosonfused
Pretty sure they used More than one guy though
Iatesomecoffeecups
Nope it was just one guy
Iatesomecoffeecups
He wasnt like, asked to either he just got a bit too drunk
finnlassy
So you’re saying that guy’s an alien?? ??
ko0ji9hu82718
Would have been even less tech than that. Mostly just other stones and copper
Spudworth
And lots of slaves.
myownname
They worker wage free for 5 years to live tax free (family including) forever. At least my teacher told me so.
CountAiight
You’re thinking of the White House
xielous0442
Nope. Aliens /s
ko0ji9hu82718
As long as they didn't use Slavs. We all good
Spudworth
Pharaohs in adidas tracksuits and vodka bottles for urns.
joelataupe
Some say it was more like skilled workers working on it.
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Slaves can be skilled workers. Not all slavery was chattel slavery as practiced in the Americas. Hell, most slavery wasn't that
haadyy
Yes. For example Roman slaves were often skilled workers, some were teachers too.
mormacil
Yes but we have payment records of pyramid workers, slaves don't get paid.
sleepinggreenidea
Also worth pointing out how we throw around the term "slave" as if all cultures are interchangable, w/identical conceptions of class roles.
helenfrankannekeller
Uhm slavery is very old and global so ya
sleepinggreenidea
(DV if you want, but we want history to be simple, societies to be easy to compare, and people to fit into neat boxes. It's not like that.)
HogWashDiddler
Not for the for the pyramids. They were labors of love, built by the most skilled craftsman. Weve actually found a journal of one of the...
HogWashDiddler
'Crew bosses'. Those workers were very well taken care of.
wutwutinthebuttt
But where did they get the hammer drills to make the holes for the wedges ??
ThePickliestRick
Chiseling
DevinCastellucci
Copper chisels mate
speershawks
Plugging chisels.
iamfarha
Slaves.
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Nope, archeologists determined that the work crews had higher social standing than the common man, and consequently slaves
BLITEBOX
Sauce?
BLITEBOX
I knew they were not slaves, but they certainly weren't celebrities. Pretty sure it was just unemployed farmers
Pinyateh
They didn’t use tech like this but: use rocks to carve out the holes, use copper to make wedges and hammers. Would it take a long time? Yes
Achromos
But then they wouldn’t have time to use twitter or play video games! D:
mstrmrvn
Video games that the aliens gave to them /s
Gudhansson
They paid the slaves 0 coin/ day so thats all good
haadyy
Historical evidence points towards the fact that the pyramids were built by paid labour, not slaves. And that garlic was part of their salar
Gudhansson
Garlic != coin
BlueberryQuickjet
From the aliens duh
neilwatkinsfromaccounting
Meerlyy
Username checks out +1
DeanOMiite
Bitch it might be
AixHD
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
You can also just use a spike and hammer it right in. Or use a normal drill. Or use carefully positioned fires and then quench the stone
utgort
Yes if you had steel, they didn't.
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
TIL that fire is made out of steel, drills can't be made from anything but steel, and bronze can't be used to make tools
Achromos
Nope, otherwise it won’t melt from the jet fuel they need to use, duh!
leechdemon
Supposedly they used a trick where you light a series of fires along the stone in a line to weaken points, and cause the same effect.
halfangel
Also they put wooden wedges aling the line then pour water onto them to expand the wood and break the stone.
HeladoDeBanana
That works with glass bottles too
feelthetensionsoonassomeonementionsme
thermal fracture
Klingon00
I don’t know about that but there are archeological finds with these wedges being used for sure.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
Nope the just threw human death and suffering at it until it was done.
RandomUserC137
Louis what are you doing on the IMGURs
TheSmogMonster
A fine tradition continued till today.
TheWarHymn
Doubt they could concentrate the heat to such precision, thermal fracture was usually used for mining or rough hewning. /
TheWarHymn
Cutting was usually done with a similar technique as shown above, but with wood wedges soaked in water to expand in the holes to fracture.
Taldur08
And people say they were stupid
Nordman0
No one said that.
Lucky246
I've never heard anyone say the Egyptians were stupid
HarryFrumvrk
I’ve never heard someone say that...
berlinson
Who ever said that?
YewPluckingShotMe
Same people had portable batteries! Stunning how little credit we give them.
Taldur08
And brain surgery
allmostthere1234
And cars that flew. If only we lived back then....
TomsKid
Ok. I am intrigued... Portable batteries? I am too lazy to Google
Taldur08
They weren't the most powerful
ExogenousDataStructure
Theory that jars were used as batteries, similar to Leyden jars. Not yet proved, cool idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
Taldur08
They had very basic batteries that were in clay jars. They would attached needles to the leads and use it for medical stuff (?) I forget>
kwyjiboner
Only stupid people say that. Humans have had the same intellectual capacity for 100k years.
SmoothOpawriter
That’s not exactly true, we’ve been the same species during that time but our intelligence has absolutely evolved.
Lucky246
Just like how people weren't shorter back in the day
kwyjiboner
People got shorter because less nutrition in early agriculture (though more plentiful food) compared to hunting and gathering.
TheRicM
I wouldn't be surprised if we lost a lot of it along the way
MarcoPoloOnPollo
Funny you should say that. The Greeks possessed medical prowess in 500 BC that wasn't known after the Middle Ages (~1400AD)