Current Events > the wheel is only like 6000 years old

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we imagine cave people, Neanderthals', etc. inventing the wheel, but nope. there were fucking cities before there were wheels.

everything u know is a lie, that is all

Like ur mom

got em!

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What about the wheel in the sky that keeps on turnin'

It lets it's light shine down.

All it took was the wheel.

Robot2600 posted...

we imagine cave people, Neanderthals', etc. inventing the wheel, but nope. there were fucking cities before there were wheels.

everything u know is a lie, that is all

I don't, I remember JFK and his "Moon" speech:
https://youtu.be/WZyRbnpGyzQ?t=124

"Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago, man learned to write and use a cart with wheels."

writing is only 5000 years old tho.

1000 years is a long time to have wheels and no writing.

Idk man the sphinx is old as fuck I bet they had wheels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ortpIJOj1b4

It sucks that some dude or lady dude made this thing that changed the whole world. And no one know who they are.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Idk man the sphinx is old as fuck I bet they had wheels

sphinx is 4500 years old. that's 1.5 thousand years of wheels before the sphinx.

Egypt was ALWAYS old, yo.

Robot2600 posted...

sphinx is 4500 years old. that's 1.5 thousand years of wheels before the sphinx.

Egypt was ALWAYS old, yo.

Nah sphinx is way older than that

i believe the conspiracy theorists when it comes to that

well ur dumb it was built under Khafre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khafre

Robot2600 posted...

well ur dumb it was built under Khafre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khafre

Nah man. Too much water damage. Khafre is just the one that found it and carved his face into the remains

Early solid wheels wouldn't necessarily be great on sandy terrain tbh.

Sleds and rollers would spread the weight much better (and oddly enough were probably used).

nah, if anything he carved his face, and then later generations made the lion body.

acid rain was a hell of a drug

idk why im even engaging you can't possibly think aliens did it. literally you ignore the entire field of anthropology if you want to go down that route you might as well wear a MAGA hat and get interviewed for the History channel

Wow all that time and no one made a wheel 2 yet? We really are far behind technology wise

Mussurana posted...

Early solid wheels wouldn't necessarily be great on sandy terrain tbh.

Sleds and rollers would spread the weight much better (and oddly enough were probably used).

u try doing yard work with a sled instead of a wheel barrow.

egypt wasnt just sandy sand sand back in the day: along the river it was closer to Louisiana/Mississippi. they called Egypt the "black land" because it was the land that had actual dirt (and not sand). Everything outside of civilization was the "red land" (and if you lived in the red land u were a fucking barbarian).

Robot2600 posted...

nah, if anything he carved his face, and then later generations made the lion body.

acid rain was a hell of a drug

idk why im even engaging you can't possibly think aliens did it. literally you ignore the entire field of anthropology if you want to go down that route you might as well wear a MAGA hat and get interviewed for the History channel

What's your view on Gbekli Tepe?

OwlRammer posted...

Wow all that time and no one made a wheel 2 yet? We really are far behind technology wise

All good, we got wheel 2 around 2000 BC, look at those spokes making it all lightweight and next gen!

Robot2600 posted...

nah, if anything he carved his face, and then later generations made the lion body.

acid rain was a hell of a drug

idk why im even engaging you can't possibly think aliens did it. literally you ignore the entire field of anthropology if you want to go down that route you might as well wear a MAGA hat and get interviewed for the History channel

I never said anything about aliens

just that the sphinx is older than people think. The evidence is there for it to be shown as a possibility.

Robot2600 posted...

u try doing yard work with a sled instead of a wheel barrow.

egypt wasnt just sandy sand sand back in the day: along the river it was closer to Louisiana/Mississippi. they called Egypt the "black land" because it was the land that had actual dirt (and not sand). Everything outside of civilization was the "red land" (and if you lived in the red land u were a fucking barbarian).

I didn't say it was easy, huge manpower and great efforts were no doubt required.

Klaus343 posted...

Gbekli Tepe

To quote Subotai from Conan: the Barbarian

"Civilization: ancient and wicked."

As I said earlier, "cities were ALWAYS old." (I know I said Egypt) but it's true.

Gokekli Tepe people eventually decided Gokekli Tepe fucking sucked, for whatever reason, and walked out east to found Sumer (Urak, Sumeria.... the place where Gilgamesh was supposed to live).

5000 years later (like, holy fucking shit tho so much time)

Urak invents writing, and with writing comes power. Double-edged: science and medicine rapidly improve but you also have the means for creating military industrial complexes.

Urak/Sumeria was like a public minecraft server, and the most popular one.

100 years later, Egypt invents it's own writing (after using Cuneiform for 100 years or so).

Q: why'd they wait?
A: politeness. they didn't want to seem like they were ripping-off sumeria. the princes were (literally) bffs and wrote each other letters. just to chat. in sumerian (cuneiform).

Egypt is like a curated minecraft server, and their language is better: looks better, easier to learn, has fun pictures of little birds and shit.

Egypt doesn't have to deal with as many problems as Sumeria cause it's in the middle of nowhere. It's stable for over 2000 years.

what'd u wanna know about gobekli tepe?

OwlRammer posted...

Wow all that time and no one made a wheel 2 yet? We really are far behind technology wise

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/scientists-reinvent-the-wheel-literally

OwlRammer posted...

Wow all that time and no one made a wheel 2 yet? We really are far behind technology wise

We're on wheel 5 now. Get with the times grandpa.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/0/AARLwzAAEv74.jpg

Don't need wheels when slaves are easily replaceable and cheap

more likely oxen

Tyranthraxus posted...

We're on wheel 5 now. Get with the times grandpa.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/0/AARLwzAAEv74.jpg

Everyone knows traditional wheel is best wheel.

Because tradition.

Pottery wheel is the OG one true wheel. Any other use of it is a disgusting perversion.

The Venturi wheel.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/4/AAABTgAAEw9u.jpg

Blasphemy.

https://www.monaco-tribune.com/en/2023/06/venturi-unveils-its-lunar-wheel-a-world-first/

Someone named the wheel as this big, transformative invention that symbolizes the transition from prehistoric hunter gatherer society to civilization, and it just kind of stuck without anyone looking it up. When the fact is, wheels weren't even all that useful until there was a system of roads. So yeah, widespread use of the wheel actually came later in human history than people tend to think.

apparently the first discovered evidence of the Wheelbarrow is from the 200's AD

Mussurana posted...

All good, we got wheel 2 around 2000 BC, look at those spokes making it all lightweight and next gen!

Longer development cycles in those days. They hadnt turned everything into an annualised franchise yet.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills.

ROBANN_88 posted...

apparently the first discovered evidence of the Wheelbarrow is from the 200's AD

that's wild