slowtrain
Well-known member
Haha, wonderful, this made my day!
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Haha, wonderful, this made my day!
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
The thought of some future-caveman carrying round a bunch of mice by their cables is way too good.
I'd love to fuck up up someone's view of the world if/when they dug me up in 30,000 years too.
Even if they carbon dated me and figured I was a later addition, the collection of items should be enough to throw historians off.
slowtrain
Well-known member
Totally, I love the idea of completely messing up future histories, brilliant ideas
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
I reckon bits of "armour" made from PCBs of various shapes could be a go.
Plastic bag shoes too.
Plastic bag shoes too.
slowtrain
Well-known member
Yeah yeah, like how to adapt modern technology for a total caveman society, be great to run a fake website - how to use yr modern technology post-2012 when it all stops working and you have to fight rival tribes.....
ipod talismans and the like, glue bits of shiny plastic junk to the back of yr new e-reader kinda cool
i like the idea!
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Yeah, I thought this while watching a Time Team Special on Stonehenge the other night: wouldn't it be great to dig down to the soil level of the early bronze age and carefully deposit an iPhone (can't C14-date plastic!), to make it look like it had always been there? Then imagining the impression it might make on an archaeologist from the far future when our own time is just a distant race memory...
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
You could do better than that...
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Fantastic! Is there some kind of Creative Anachronism Society I can join? If not, I'm half-tempted to found one...
Edit: http://www.sca.org/ hmm, looks a bit serious, I was after something a bit sillier and more anarchic than that.
Edit: http://www.sca.org/ hmm, looks a bit serious, I was after something a bit sillier and more anarchic than that.
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Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
I rekkon that site looks a bit noncy, there's a fine line between a good joust and a full blown live action roll playing fetish.
No. This is much more refined.
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scottdisco
rip this joint please
Awesome's lovely Aztec-flavoured chart ^ reminds me i didn't choose to pack any chocolate.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Time for me to repost this?
I love the way the hideous demon is creeping up behind the guy, tapping him on the shoulder in this slighlty camp 'yoo-hoo!' way...perfectly sums up the creeping existential horror of a bad trip, I think.
Also love the Windows 95 logo in that Aztec glyph chart!
I love the way the hideous demon is creeping up behind the guy, tapping him on the shoulder in this slighlty camp 'yoo-hoo!' way...perfectly sums up the creeping existential horror of a bad trip, I think.
Also love the Windows 95 logo in that Aztec glyph chart!
slowtrain
Well-known member
Might be better in the obscure wiki pages thread, but came across this researching anachronsims:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_Opera_Rapid_Aging_Syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_Opera_Rapid_Aging_Syndrome
sufi
lala
check the excellent wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact
had heard of the Antikythera mechanism & the Baghdad Battery before, lots of other juicy pseudo-esoterica
had heard of the Antikythera mechanism & the Baghdad Battery before, lots of other juicy pseudo-esoterica
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
Ooooh, there's a word (well... term) for this?
Sign me up. Wouldn't it be hilarious if they found a whole bunch of needles round Aborigine paintings of the dream time?
Sign me up. Wouldn't it be hilarious if they found a whole bunch of needles round Aborigine paintings of the dream time?
sufi
lala
... the lost episodes of doctor who stashed in a prehistoric cludgy under bush house ...
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
This is verging on the Ballardian.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I don't get it - needles for taking drugs with? Playing records? Sewing?