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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

A couple years ago my chemistry teacher told my class that the Egyptians had really advanced technology (technology even more advanced than our own) thousands of years ago but it all got lost because they started a nuclear war

Edit: she told us that the evidence was that there were smartphone paintings

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 24 points 11 months ago

Sounds like he was sneaking sniffs in the flammable cabinet a little too often.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

Famously impossible thing to detect in historical records: massive amounts of uranium-235.

[–] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Pfff I'm sorry but no, it was the cats.

You see cats have powers similar to Telekinesis. Why do you think they choose rivers surrounded by deserts to start the first civilizations. Sandboxes everywhere they please.

But one dark day the Faraó Ramses forgot to refil the food pile because and I quote "but it still had food from yesterday".

This one mistake doomed humanity to the eternal silence treatment.

(and that's why his tomb sucked, his was the first that humans actually had to build)

[–] isles@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I do really enjoy the theory that the great pyramids are actually industrial reactant chambers.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Great filter theory bit it already happened and nobody noticed.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

She must go to some good parties.