Syt's Pictorial Collection of Stuff and Things (image heavy)

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The Brain

#180
September 03, 2018, 02:41:39 PM
It makes sense for the Roman empire at its height to have a reasonable grasp of its geography.
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Richard Hakluyt

#181
September 04, 2018, 01:45:13 AM
Ptolemy gives latitude and longitude for thousands of places, all the places listed in his book I think. Hence the reconstructed maps are accurate representations of his geographical understanding.

Razgovory

#182
September 04, 2018, 10:36:35 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on September 04, 2018, 01:45:13 AM
Ptolemy gives latitude and longitude for thousands of places, all the places listed in his book I think. Hence the reconstructed maps are accurate representations of his geographical understanding.


Yeah, I think he used a lot of star positions (He also wrote the Almagast).  I do wonder where he got the data for all that.  It's doubt he trudged through Scotland and or sailed down the coast of Africa.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Valmy

#183
September 04, 2018, 10:50:09 AM
With all those magical astrologers peering at the stars all the time, the data might have been available to him from those areas.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Syt

#184
September 27, 2018, 01:38:28 AM
Street in Macau, a glimpse of the Grand Lisboa Casino in the background:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Richard Hakluyt

#185
September 27, 2018, 01:46:06 AM
Looks like the start of a Marvel super-villain attack  :cool:

Syt

#186
September 29, 2018, 04:04:08 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#187
September 29, 2018, 12:12:29 PM
They use Apple IIe in Heaven? :hmm:
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

PDH

#188
September 29, 2018, 02:14:52 PM
Quote from: Syt on September 27, 2018, 01:38:28 AM
Street in Macau, a glimpse of the Grand Lisboa Casino in the background:
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Showed this to my gaming friends, and we cooked up a whole Cyberpunk book plot in 5 mintues...
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Monoriu

#189
September 29, 2018, 05:45:14 PM
I have been to the Grand Lisboa a few times.  It has good restaurants. 

Syt

#190
October 06, 2018, 07:52:58 AM
The UK equivalent to the US soda map:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#191
October 06, 2018, 10:45:16 AM
WTF? Scone rhymes with "cone" you ridiculous Brits.

Ireland > Scotland
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Tonitrus

#192
October 06, 2018, 10:59:50 AM
But when do we tell them that their scones look like our biscuits?

Syt

#193
October 06, 2018, 11:30:04 AM
Monty Python (or at least Michael Palin) lean towards the "gone" side of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts&feature=youtu.be&t=41
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#194
October 07, 2018, 06:51:42 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.
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