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Scandiknavery. They aren’t legit.

by ZanyProgrammer 4y ago

notart666 4y ago
Vandalism at its finest. Makes you wonder what a professional could do with the right motives.
- dontbenebby 4y ago
  > Vandalism at its finest. Makes you wonder what a professional could do with the right motives. Professional what exactly? (I pay closer attention to graffiti than I used to.)
  - solmanac 4y ago
    Professional shyster making something like the Georgia guides tones or golden tablets to "discover" and then use as the basis of a religion, is the first thing that comes to mind.
    - bee_rider 4y ago
      If I were going to do something like that, I'd probably come up with an invented language so I could translate it as I needed new commandments.
      - GolfPopper 4y ago
        Ah, you mean the Voynich Manuscript! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
        TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
        No, he means the Golden Plates found by Joseph Smith in 1823 in New York, which created the Mormon religion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates
        bee_rider 4y ago
        Hmm, is it Poe's law or some sort of generalization thereof if I wasn't actually trying to mock any widely-followed religion?
    - hattmall 4y ago
      Oh, you mean dinosaurs! There's basically never been a full one found. The closest one ever was found under dubious circumstances. The process for extracting them is to make tiny chips in rock and casts as you go along pretty much allowing you to shape as desired. The sites are of course highly guarded. Of course the most complete was the ever popular TRex. Dinosaur paleontology is a religious racket. Sure there was lots of megafauna and their were some large flightless birds with various levels of feathering. Like anything though money corrupts and the money behind dinosaurs is huge. Every kid has toys, books, theres movies, TV shows, museums, etc.
      - noduerme 4y ago
        They're not carving stone when digging out the fossils. And the average fossil digger is not Michaelangelo or capable of sculpting a negative dinosaur skeleton out of solid rock. Just imagine hundreds of people on a dig trying to get the symmetry and proportions right. The answer is that the material inside the impression left by the decaying bones is softer than the rock it's encased in. Sure, dinos for kids are big money, but there's just a massive amount of proof they existed. The fact that an industry exists monetizing a natural phenomenon doesn't automatically mean the phenomenon doesn't exist. That's the "anything mainstream must be fake" conspiracy theory. Some mainstream things are real. What proof is there for the world being created in seven days besides a single book of stories invented a couple thousand years ago? And by the way, don't parents buy their kids a lot of religious things... way more than dinosaur dolls? [edit] if I'm just missing the sarcasm here, sorry, it's been a long day.
        GolfPopper 4y ago
        I think it's a joke, but it's the internet, so Poe's Law applies.
      - NickNameNick 4y ago
        If you have the opportunity, Dinosaur national monument in Utah is well worth the visit. They have an exposed fossil bearing rockface that you can get very close to, and you can see how the fossils differ from the surrounding stone.
    - noduerme 4y ago
      Just give whoever a few hundred years to go from cult to religion, though, and they'll burn you at the stake for making fun of their silly tablets.
- CamperBob2 4y ago
  If I were Musk or Bezos, the temptation to rig a Contact-style scenario would be well beyond merely overwhelming. Guessing the orbital mechanics needed to station-keep a signal source at a given apparent sidereal position, far enough from Earth to simulate parallax at infinity, are unworkable.
  - rongopo 4y ago
    There's surely a low cost version.
- theodric 4y ago
  Technically, the Vandals were East Germanic, but these are West Germanic-inspired runes.
- bombcar 4y ago
  The key to a great fake is to fake it NOW and leave it to be found two hundred years later. When the profit motive is removed it becomes harder to track down.

Scandiknavery. They aren’t legit.

notart666 4y ago

Vandalism at its finest. Makes you wonder what a professional could do with the right motives.

dontbenebby 4y ago
> Vandalism at its finest. Makes you wonder what a professional could do with the right motives. Professional what exactly? (I pay closer attention to graffiti than I used to.)
- solmanac 4y ago
  Professional shyster making something like the Georgia guides tones or golden tablets to "discover" and then use as the basis of a religion, is the first thing that comes to mind.
  - bee_rider 4y ago
    If I were going to do something like that, I'd probably come up with an invented language so I could translate it as I needed new commandments.
    - GolfPopper 4y ago
      Ah, you mean the Voynich Manuscript! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
      - TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
        No, he means the Golden Plates found by Joseph Smith in 1823 in New York, which created the Mormon religion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates
        bee_rider 4y ago
        Hmm, is it Poe's law or some sort of generalization thereof if I wasn't actually trying to mock any widely-followed religion?
  - hattmall 4y ago
    Oh, you mean dinosaurs! There's basically never been a full one found. The closest one ever was found under dubious circumstances. The process for extracting them is to make tiny chips in rock and casts as you go along pretty much allowing you to shape as desired. The sites are of course highly guarded. Of course the most complete was the ever popular TRex. Dinosaur paleontology is a religious racket. Sure there was lots of megafauna and their were some large flightless birds with various levels of feathering. Like anything though money corrupts and the money behind dinosaurs is huge. Every kid has toys, books, theres movies, TV shows, museums, etc.
    - noduerme 4y ago
      They're not carving stone when digging out the fossils. And the average fossil digger is not Michaelangelo or capable of sculpting a negative dinosaur skeleton out of solid rock. Just imagine hundreds of people on a dig trying to get the symmetry and proportions right. The answer is that the material inside the impression left by the decaying bones is softer than the rock it's encased in. Sure, dinos for kids are big money, but there's just a massive amount of proof they existed. The fact that an industry exists monetizing a natural phenomenon doesn't automatically mean the phenomenon doesn't exist. That's the "anything mainstream must be fake" conspiracy theory. Some mainstream things are real. What proof is there for the world being created in seven days besides a single book of stories invented a couple thousand years ago? And by the way, don't parents buy their kids a lot of religious things... way more than dinosaur dolls? [edit] if I'm just missing the sarcasm here, sorry, it's been a long day.
      - GolfPopper 4y ago
        I think it's a joke, but it's the internet, so Poe's Law applies.
    - NickNameNick 4y ago
      If you have the opportunity, Dinosaur national monument in Utah is well worth the visit. They have an exposed fossil bearing rockface that you can get very close to, and you can see how the fossils differ from the surrounding stone.
  - noduerme 4y ago
    Just give whoever a few hundred years to go from cult to religion, though, and they'll burn you at the stake for making fun of their silly tablets.
CamperBob2 4y ago
If I were Musk or Bezos, the temptation to rig a Contact-style scenario would be well beyond merely overwhelming. Guessing the orbital mechanics needed to station-keep a signal source at a given apparent sidereal position, far enough from Earth to simulate parallax at infinity, are unworkable.
- rongopo 4y ago
  There's surely a low cost version.
theodric 4y ago
Technically, the Vandals were East Germanic, but these are West Germanic-inspired runes.
bombcar 4y ago
The key to a great fake is to fake it NOW and leave it to be found two hundred years later. When the profit motive is removed it becomes harder to track down.