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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, let alone draw a straight line.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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