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That's impossible, the mirror wasn't invented until millennia later, so there's no way the sculptor would have known what a human face looked like. They must t
by mjd 1y ago
That's impossible, the mirror wasn't invented until millennia later, so there's no way the sculptor would have known what a human face looked like.
They must think we're stupid.
- simonh 1y agoWe’ll, that’s me convinced.
- butlike 1y agoAnd how!
- sethammons 1y agoI don't get your joke
- throwmeaway222 1y agoI think he's making fun of historians that have really dumb reasons for declaring human culture is one way or another because of event X but it doesn't pass a sniff test. In this example, mirrors don't need to exist because people can look at other people (or more simply feel their own face). It was a 40% funny joke.
- djmips 1y agodon't forget water and maybe oiled polished obsidian?
- mjd 1y agoNot a bad guess! According to this report on my desk, it is 61%±2% funny.
- throwmeaway222 1y agoI reran the numbers and it did come in at 59.5%
- Liquix 1y agothey have played us for absolute fools
- checker659 1y agoSo, they were all blind? They couldn't see each other? (Not to mention reflection in water).
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoIt's sarcasm
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- Tor3 1y agoI see some people didn't get the obvious joke.. the big joke though is that some people actually think like that. As a little boy I was into Erich von Däniken and his books about how, basically, aliens made a lot of the "impossible to make for humans at the time" artifacts. But then my, at the time, 9-year old found the part where he wrote (paraphrased) "[photo of a sculpture made to look like a skeleton] This sculpture has the correct number of ribs. This proves that they had access to X-ray machines, because without X-ray machines this is impossible." That's when I realized the guy was a kook and it was all rubbish. He was into it for the money, btw. The "click-bait" of the time. And in my opinion Hancock is Däniken's spiritual descendant.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoBut how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?