Obviously it’s a key that needs to be inserted into an ancient titan robot to power it back up.
What an utterly ridiculous notion. Obviously it’s a magical battery that, once charged, can be inserted into an ancient titan robot to power it back up.
I thought it was a dowel sizing tool for standardized construction.
Why wouldn’t you use a simple flat metal bar, or even a ring shaped bar, with standard holes in it?
That doesn’t make sense. Why not just make it dodecahedral shaped and have little tear drop knobs at every vertici?
Artistic embellishment.
it’s an oil lamp.
use discs with or without holes to adjust brightness.
Panic Pete
https://youtu.be/lADTLozKm0I?si=pKQ8Dwt7wriapdni
Seems pretty convincing and matches gold bracelets made in the era.
This is, by far, the most compelling theory I’ve seen.
Given that those things were so common, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the other uses people have theorized could have happened too.
I’ve actually seen an old lady knit gloves with one as well.
This is SCP-184.
But you probably don’t have access to that file.
This isn’t even a joke, I have an O5 ID card in my wallet. Fun little thing to pull out in moments like this lol
This is amazing. I love it.
God this thing has gotten so beaten up lately. Clearly not the best quality lol that or I’m the longest serving O5.
This is the kind of insanity I wish more upon the world ❤️
There was a dude at a store a few months back who was wearing a hoodie with the Foundation logo on it. After making the purchase when putting the card away I saw the ID and pulled it out. Said “Keep up the good work and we’ll see about those incentives.” I’ve never seen a person look both confused and ecstatic at the same time before lol
It’s probably some kids workshop assignment that he brought home to his parents.
Except there’s heaps of them
Part of a standardized curriculum
Always love seeing these come up and everyone confidently stating that it’s been solved. Everything from a knitting tool (highly unlikely as the Romans didn’t knit) to a dice. The truth is we just don’t know and likely never will unless a new source .
Personally I’m convinced by the theory that they’re probably a metalworkers portfolio piece used to demonstrate the creators skill, either to potential customers or as a test to join a guild.
Spaghetti portion measurer.
Must be ceremonial.
Underrated joke
I always loved David Macauley take on this. He wrote a book as if people 2000 years ago found a motel and he presumed the “sanitized for your protection” banding and toilet seats would have been seen as ceremonial wear.
https://www.byanyothernerd.com/2020/04/stranger-days-39-mysteries-of-motel.html?m=1
Ehh idk about this take. I agree with the article that there are some commercial historical mediums like the History Channel that interpret the past in an absurd/almost malicious way. However modern archaeology does a really good job of finding out how objects from the past were used and how people interacted with their environment. A toilet is not really gonna be up for debate as for what its use was. Historical text, fecal remains, toilets looking pretty similar for the past thousand years, is gonna tell you it’s a toilet.
The notion of our interpretation of the past being completely flawed is kinda true if it was like the 1950s and we were talking about non-western cultures from a western perspective.
Again this is a children’s book.
ion know why you saying “again” like you made a big point of it being a children’s book (you didn’t). I’m just saying I don’t like media like this. It feels like they’re delegitimizing research that is already brushed off by society as not useful compared to something in a stem field.
We can have different opinions lol
It’s fiction? I think you need to take a second to actually read the link provided because it’s very clear this is for children and your response to it is silly.
Broski no need to get so pressed. What do you think fiction is? How would a young, impressionable audience, interpret this work?
Works of fiction don’t exist in a vacuum. They are directly inspired and informed from the world we live in. In a similar vain, the impact of fiction does not exist in a vacuum. You don’t read a book and come away with no thoughts related to it. You don’t just throw away knowledge like that. If anything fiction works directed at children have an outsized impact on how we perceive the world compared to the space they occupy in literature.
Im not your bro. You literally are complaining about a fiction book that most people read at the age of nine to twelve. It’s not having the impact that you think it does. You are worrying about nothing likely because you don’t have kids.
I read a book at the same age that suggested we could live on Mars and there was a whole culture on the planet yet I don’t believe that either. Is that because at 9 I understood what fiction is?
I remember reading a book as a kid, I can’t remember if it was this or maybe inspired by this, but adapted for kids (iirc the art style was more cartoony and comedic) where archeologists unearth a motel called the Toot and C’mon.
Edit: after a bit of searching I think it was this book. Unlocked some memories I didn’t realize I had.
This guy did a bunch of kids books. My favorites were Castle and Pyramid.
What if instead toilet seats become a symbol for a group of genetically engineered super soldiers known for being Mary Sues?
I can’t remember if it’s an official Asimov book or not, but one of the Foundation books set far beyond even the main series has an archaeological mission finding thousands of ceremonial hard white ceramic bowl-funnels and speculating on their significance to these incomprehensibly ancient peoples.
thousands
There’s probably millions even if you account for the fact that most would have been destroyed
So it’s a sex toy, got it.
Did it went up or got filled?
A fertility ceremonial, got it!
Actual guess after hearing that they’re found with money. Used it to check size of coins for valuation? Sort of like how some coin counters with?
A piggy bank even?
All we know for certain is that at some point that thing was on some bored Romans knob.
We could use the ample DNA samples he’s provided to bring him back and ask him
Looks like a githyanki artifact used to protect from illithid.
BG3 spoiler
There’s definitely nobody trapped in there, it’s all completely fine with no ethical considerations whatsoever.
They’ve actually all been planted by time travelers just to fuck with people.
This is why I couldn’t have a time machine. I’d go back in time and fuck with people. Leave a modern day Bic pen deep in a cave in New Zealand, or a randomly shaped object with no clear use made from something like titanium in a forest in the middle of Brazil.
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