Every October 14th at 8:21am the sun would shine through my bathroom window and perfectly illuminate the toilet bowl.
I liked to drop a duke in there before that happened because I thought it was hilarious that the universe would celebrate my bowel movement like that.
I’m reminded of a quote from an old Tom Scott video. He’s visiting a modern reconstruction of a Neolithic long barrow. Tom points out that the sun lines up with the entrance on the summer solstice, then it cuts to the owner who says
I think a lot of people would assume that getting the alignments of a monument like this… would involve complex calculations, a sharp pencil, and computing power. But in fact, you can do it just as easily by getting up at the right time with some sticks.
In other words, we do understand the stakes. They involve using stakes.
The GENIUS of people who wake up early and actually go outside
If we could only unlock poor Photoshop skills to demonstrate the imaginary Incan power of two suns.
Excuse me. Are you being whimsical?
It’s cool how the magical rays from the suns know where they’re going and only bother lighting the path straight to the windows.
TERRIFYING PRECISION and ARCHITECTURAL GENIUS of checks notes
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double-checks notes
“Knowing how shadows and windows work”
Man, the bar is unrealistically high for some people…
This is so frustrating because yeah, it’s impressive how advanced the architecture and construction are in many ancient sites. And it’s entirely possible that the Inca believed that the sunlight on a specific day had special power. But the ability to make a building a certain way doesn’t mean they were right about the sunlight, any more than Notre Dame makes the Christian god real.
