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Idk how many times i have to post this, but it’s clearly a prime chaotic resonator. Slot some fossils into that bad boy and craft some good gear!
Craft good gear? Its just a tool to help you delete divines.
look at this larper, he doesn’t even recognize a bigass thundercube.
You use this for krangling your items.
I got this reference
Before someone posts it, no, it’s not for knitting; there are solid ones that would have been useless for that and knitting isn’t known to have been present in the Roman Empire.
What do you mean knitting wasn’t present in the roman empire? That’s slightly less absurd than saying knots didn’t exist in the bronze age! Lack of evidence doesnt mean it’s not present! There’s lots of things we know for sure happened during the roman empire despite no one writing about it, like child baptism in early christianity. We don’t know what it looked like, but we know where it happened and that everyone was in agreement about the method.
Knitting is a technology, and there isn’t evidence it emerged uniformly throughout the world. Think about the environment that Rome is in; what good is something knitted in a hot Mediterranean climate? We have tons of art and literature documenting weaving, which was very important to Romans, but none of knitting. If you have evidence they had it you should publish it.
Knitting is 17th century (in Europe). In Rome you’d have nalbinding as an alternative.
There’s a lot of evidence, both direct and indirect, of textile production techniques. I can recommend reading books from Karina Grömer, if you’re interested in the subject.
I don’t know. I knit a lot. I loom knit too by hand. There are methods for making knitted cords that use nails hammered into a circular wood.
This really looks like it’s meant to make gloves and each hole is dedicated to a different finger and a center for sleeves. Maybe it was combined with weaving and there is rope or a wooden hook that we wouldn’t see today.
I was going to 3D print one to experiment and see if I could work something out myself.
The fact that there are solid ones really throws me off though. I was dead convinced this was a knitting/weaving tool.
For reference, these are widely available now, but aren’t the most popular item. A multi sided one with multiple holes might do different sized cords. Possibly a mesh. Maybe gloves. I don’t know.
There is a YouTube channel I watch where this lady gets so creative with these looms that she’s managed to make just about anything, so if it was meant for knitting/weaving of some sort, you really could use it to make just about anything.
They come in many different shapes with different sized spokes and different spacing. It is faster than traditional knitting in my opinion, but harder to get complicated colorwork/patterns.
It’s a cigarette lighter.
When you are feeling under pressure, do something different! Roll up your sleeves or eat an orange.
That feels like a random quote from the “Little Book of Calm”
Can’t remember if it’s the same episode or not, but there’s one where Fran tries to figure out what an object is, and in the end it’s a lighter.
I actually bought the little book of calm because of the show. The lighter is indeed from the same episode, series 1, Episode 1.
“I do sell a lot of wank, don’t I?”
Fun fact: While these are from the Roman period, they’ve mostly been found in what were then the provinces of Brittania and Gaul, and none have ever been found in Italy. Which tends to suggest that they’re Celtic or Romano-Celtic rather than Roman.
Yeah, in Yorkshire we still make and use them actually, but I’m not allowed to tell thee what they’re for, because of Brexit.
Most convincing theory I’ve seen is that it’s a cipher tool.
(/srs) my most convincing theory is that it’s for testing smithing skills. Like that one boat on 3D printers.
A Roman benchie?
I mean… Maybe… It would be a tricky make that would require quite a bit of skill to cast or bend, weld and polish.
Not an unreasonable hypothesis all things considered.
A new hand touches the beacon.
This is going to be future archaeologists with all of our electronics.
It’s already difficult to get some 10 year old devices’ documentation or user manual. The company behind it might not even exist anymore so I’m off to digging up the archives or translating chinese OEM’s pdfs.
And you know what to look for, have the resources to find it, and can interpret the information when you find it.
Imagine having an Xbox, a router, a cable modem, an iPhone 11, the control board from a washing machine, and the central unit from a Tesla and trying to explain what each of them was without any other context, cables, chargers, etc…
Maybe not even a compatible source of electricity!
Don’t even get me started on the ephemeral nature of software…
I sometimes have to support old harsware still used in live systems and sometimes it feels like digital archaeology trying to find. I feel a massive wave of relief if I see them running an old enough version of our software that I can tell them lol nope unsupported.
Oldest thing I have had to support this month is a card reader from the late 90s. Essentially a scanner which scans printed templates and identifies where someone filled in the form on it. The customer was putting the cards in upside down.
Time Traveler: “Listen, I know it’s weird, but spread making this thing as a tradition, it’ll confuse the fuck out of historians in a couple thousand years.”
I can’t believe this is not known. Its the Continuum Transfunctioner.
That is a very mysterious and powerful device. I’ve heard its mystery is only exceeded by its power.
In case anyone isn’t in on the joke, it’s a device for circumcising boys
You find the hole of the appropriate diameter, stick his penis in, then spin it as you pull it off and it cuts the foreskin off (the inner edges are sharp)
So like a really old soda can?
Oh my god
And if you used the wrong hole, you now have a new daughter!
I do not believe you.
Ok, what do you think it is?
Wiggle diggle.
Your mom’s butt plug.
I think the majority of historians agree that flare technology had been invented by then, spurred on by the massive amounts of olive oil in use at the time.
Too small
Phone stand
It’s an anomalous object that expands the inside dimensions of a space without altering the outside dimensions. It gets lazy about it after a while though and starts making stuff out of whatever bullshit comes to hand, though. DO NOT leave it outside for prolonged periods of time.
I mean, isn’t it obvious? It’s for winding up string or twine. Clothing thread or fishing line or thin rope… So many uses!
This is the explanation I’ve seen. IIRC there’s a video where someone uses one of these to make fine gold threads.
It was found in a Roman toilet along with three shells.
