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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I didn't know they had a ruler. I thought they were an autonomous collective.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Surely the lack of opposable thumbs made it difficult to hold a ruler long enough to measure the Earth precisely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, let alone draw a straight line.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You're fooling yourself. They were living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working class dinosaurs...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

They probably didn't have rulers. Or compasses. It was such an early era that geometry wasn't invented yet.