Hired.
It reminds me of a Turner’s Cube. Which is just a pointless gee-gaw that machinists make to sharpen and show off their skills
Y’all, it’s just a cool thing, and a status symbol.
You’re really going to tell me that a species that has/had things like decorative paper weights, necklaces, rings, statues, fidget spinners, funko pop figures, and little tiny versions of buildings you flew 8 hours to see for sale near the actual building isn’t going to be the same one that in ancient times, was all over a little bronze thing that looks objectively cool once some metal worker figures out how to make one?
It’s like none of you have ever met a human before. It doesn’t have to do anything. That’s the point.
While you may be right, you’re basically yelling at humans to not be curious and problem solve.
Not at all.
I’m saying don’t over think it.
Biblically accurate coins.
Made my day ❤️
An ancient d12!
The knitting helper?
I knew it had something to do with cloth
You mean the spaghetti portion measurer?
“That is very unlike a coin. You’re terrible at this.”
Mfw
Those look like objects I would find in Skyrim
A new hand touches the decahedron!
These are candle holders for when you want to send light in all directions by using candles of various widths. All knowledge of them evaporated because all the users died in mysterious fires.
Did they ever discover what started the fires?
It wasn’t Billy Joel and his mates, so he says.
Nice throw back asshole. I was juste chillin on my balcony, now the dolly zoom crew is laying downstair. Gotta warn thé key grip next time.
You know the rules and so do I…
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down…
They did try to fight it though.
It’s probably a rope rigging or for pikes – with the hole.
Why do the images on this instance never load for me and if I open them it takes me to some weird plain text site?
Lenny.world blocks everything they probably don’t like your instance for some reason. The images only load for me if I’m on a VPN
It appears as an Easter egg in Luthen Rael’s antique shop in Andor.
STEVE?
In 1000 years people will find a land fill with fidget spinners and wonder the same.
Or they will immediately start fidgeting with them and inadvertently understand.
Which now leads me to believe these relics are merely copies of earlier relics that were copied from relics even earlier. Created only to be recreated as the echo of human curiosity.
The big bang was god dropping his dodecahedron fidget spinner
In fact, my hypothesis (it’s mine, you can’t have it) is that the Roman empire fell due to everybody being constantly distressed and distracted because they kept losing their fidget dodecahedrons all over Europe.
So you claim your hypothesis is nonfungible? Watch me funge up your hypothesis!
My preferred theory is that it identifies the bearer as belonging to a group something like a smithies guild.
If there was a practical function someone would have figured it out. It’s a lame candle holder, coin counter, and glove knitting template. It’s function is symbolic.
It was hard to make, and the materials were costly.
It has specific features that can be described like “it has 12 flat faces with holes” but would be difficult to construct if you had never seen one.
They have often been found with caches of coins, but often found alone as though forgotten or discarded. They had value to some people but they were not treasure.
I’m just imagining a thousand years from now some archaeologists is trying to understand the technological purpose of the fidget spinner.
In other words, they were masterpieces in the original meaning of the word. Masterpiece originally meant not just some great or acclaimed work, but something much more specific. It was the work a guild artisan would use to demonstrate their ultimate skill and earn the title of Master. It was the craftsman equivalent of an academic dissertation. For a specific historical example, see columbine cup.
hmmm looks like some sort of religious figurine
hmmm looks like some sort of religious figurine
It appears to be dedicated to a deity known as CT3D.xyz
In 1000 years if they discovered Newton’s Cradles, they’d be similarly baffled on their functional use case. My theory is that it’s just a cool decoration thing
I really like the “you cant actually make one from a description” angle. That actually makes a lot of sense. Like, you couldn’t even make it from memory, you’d have to copy it.
Yep, in a way this has similarities to modern cryptography.
In cryptography you can share a public key, which can’t be used to create the private key but can be used to identify the correct private key.
With this object, you can share a description which can’t be used to make the object, but can be used to identify the object.
Its obviously not infallible security, but it would take some effort to overcome.
