Hermione Wrote:
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> Hans_lune Wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Superseded nowadays by: The meter is defined as
> > the length of the path travelled by light in a
> > vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458
> of
> > a second.
> > > I don't think the AE could have figured that
> > out either!
> >
> > Of course the fringe will say its evidence that
> > aliens were telling them things!
>
> But why on earth would the aliens have wanted the
> AE to encode earth measurements, and speed of
> light measurements, in a stone tomb? I mean,
> what's the point?
>
> They were aliens, for goodness' sake ...
> They'd come from Alpha Centauri or some even more
> distant cosmoverse somewhere, in their incredibly
> sophisticated machine using computers so
> incredibly sophisticated that no one, even today,
> could recognise them as computers .... and they
> want the ignorant subject races to do all this
> encoding business?
>
> I mean, for unthinkably wise and knowledgeable
> beings from far beyond the stars, they really were
> a bit three egg-sandwiches short of a picnic ...
>


Well it was a grand day (in our calendar OCT 11 2,634 BCE and Urk'~>< wanted to teach the Egyptians about sanitation and germ theory but XTx-~`~ wanted to tell them about light speed and have them encode it in masonry to win a bet for the stupidest thing they could get humans to do!