Now I want a version of the series For All Mankind where Zambia wins the space race
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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What about one where Sumer wins, 𒈗?
Actually, I guess weirdos on Facebook already think that Sumer did ancient aliens stuff.
It's more often the other way around: Aliens came to the Sumerians. Read with a certain lense, the Sumerian creation myth sounds like genetic manipulation. Wake up. I met a guy like this in real life once
It’s amazing how a guy who didn’t know Sumerian “translated” texts and is taken as gospel by those weirdos. I took a short Sumerian class - it’s not like translating Spanish.
I see so much AI “Sumerian” shit on Facebook. Every time I see the word annunaki, I just know something insane is following.
I had a little bit of contact with Sumerian myself in university (you might have guess from my username). I was in the Applied Computer Linguistics group in a project that translated Sumerian into English (with AI but before it was cool). The takeaway was that it's too little data to really train the neurol network properly but since most of the tablets were just which king owns how much cattle and stuff, it could handle it (I, for the record, don't own any cattle)
I sadly didn't learn too much about Sumerian. I know it's highly agglutinative and a language isolate. We had an Old Orientalist in the team and it was always cool to hear about and see cuneiform and how it developed over time and was used differently in different languages
It’s enough to make one believe in the power of the nam-shub of Enki, amirite?
More like the power of human ignorance and laziness. Like, you can read the real deal online. None of the spaceship shit.
They also really love photoshopping the Pleiades into random artifacts on Facebook. Or Graham Hancock’s stupid “handbags.”
For me it is comforting at least to know I am not the only one to feel this way about subjects I have paid in blood to learn.
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Spoilers for For All Mankind s3
North Korea beats everyone to Mars, so…
They can still beat the Russians, though
Welp, independence in '64, moon in '65. Maybe a lunch break after.
EZPZ.
zambian minister of space r e s e a r c h
it's missing the roman bust
someone should give them those 2 billion for this