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I'm not sure if I love or hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society. "We're referring

I'm not sure if I love or hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society. "We're referring to it as the 'ball court', though it could also have had ceremonial or political significance. Notice the symmetry and the way it is aligned to true north." (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)

bigbubba 6y ago
> (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.) They probably won't... but maybe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders
chrisco255 6y ago
Exactly. It turns out that the pyramids were just a cross-promotional publicity stunt between the Egyptian Wheel Company and an ancient board game.
- arthurcolle 6y ago
  With big painted billboards advertising Khalem-tet's building force (an early Mechanical Turk) on all 4 sides!
marcosdumay 6y ago
Do enough stunts, and one or two of them get preserved just by sheer chance. This one almost certainly won't stay there. None of them will. But whatever gets preserved will be some crazy stuff that future people have no chance of understanding. (But well, nobody should be surprised that our civilization can align things with the true North... So, nobody probably will.)
oh_sigh 6y ago
Well they won't last any time because their destruction was caught at the end of the video.
- paledot 6y ago
  oh_sigh
app4soft 6y ago
> hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society Nowadays archaeologists also trying to figure out what role each thing they found already played in ancient society. Nobody really don't know why (and how) Egyptian pyramids built in such form as we know it now. Every thing in our life is a game; Just remember that each player in real world has only "1 life" & there are NO "god mode", even more — there are NO objects which could grant user at least "1UP". [Spoiler] «The Game of Life». RIP John Conway[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306

bigbubba 6y ago

> (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.) They probably won't... but maybe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders

chrisco255 6y ago

Exactly. It turns out that the pyramids were just a cross-promotional publicity stunt between the Egyptian Wheel Company and an ancient board game.

arthurcolle 6y ago
With big painted billboards advertising Khalem-tet's building force (an early Mechanical Turk) on all 4 sides!

marcosdumay 6y ago

Do enough stunts, and one or two of them get preserved just by sheer chance. This one almost certainly won't stay there. None of them will. But whatever gets preserved will be some crazy stuff that future people have no chance of understanding. (But well, nobody should be surprised that our civilization can align things with the true North... So, nobody probably will.)

oh_sigh 6y ago

Well they won't last any time because their destruction was caught at the end of the video.

paledot 6y ago
oh_sigh

app4soft 6y ago

> hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society Nowadays archaeologists also trying to figure out what role each thing they found already played in ancient society. Nobody really don't know why (and how) Egyptian pyramids built in such form as we know it now. Every thing in our life is a game; Just remember that each player in real world has only "1 life" & there are NO "god mode", even more — there are NO objects which could grant user at least "1UP". [Spoiler] «The Game of Life». RIP John Conway[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306