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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by tarikjn on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @01:14PM (#39107241)
The equivalent today would be 3Dbenchy boats -- "we found an identical boat toy design in multiple sites made of different plastic materials, colors and sizes. It is spread universally around the World cities, found in sites of crafts, leading us to believe it is an idol of a new 21st century religion predominant among workers of the arts and crafts"
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by pinko on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @01:37PM (#39107602)
Along these lines, if you haven't ever seen it, check out _Motel of the Mysteries_ by David Macaulay. (Yes, that David Macaulay!)
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by hiatus on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:36PM (#39108536)
A Canticle For Leibowitz touches on a similar theme.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by ojo-rojo on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:41PM (#39110984)
I agree. I started with Anathem then went to A Canticle for Leibowitz. Together they were a fun read, I've put them both on my bookshelf.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:53PM (#39109643)
I remember "reading" that as a kid, when I was too young to really understand the text, and thinking it was a horror story.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by junon on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:58PM (#39111726)
Is this the one where they find the toilet seat and think it's jewelry or something? If so, had the same experience. I was too young to understand it and thought it was something scary.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by PhasmaFelis on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:44PM (#39159653)
Yep, exactly! Tons of shadowy pictures of decayed skeletons lying in beds and bathtubs, and most of the humor is in the text.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by felipemnoa on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:28PM (#39109283)
Just like the Lenna image used in a lot of Computer Science papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:11PM (#39111308)
She actually showed up to an IEEE conference once, I think, in the late '90s, or early aughts.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by qingcharles on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @11:26AM (#39119227)
She did indeed. Someone finally tracked her down recently. She's kinda over all the fuss :p
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by hammyhavoc on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @11:41AM (#39119425)
Any anecdotes about the conference? Did it surprise people?
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:37PM (#39120129)
There is this: http://www.lenna.org
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @04:11PM (#39109905)
If you try hard enough you could probably come up with some resemblances to male/female parts and thus classify this as belonging to a fertility cult.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by taneq on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:41PM (#39111579)
"Yes yes the dodecahedron was considered a 'perfect' shape so this clearly represents a 'perfect' uterus surrounded by many ovaries, signifying overwhelming fertility." :P
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by bertil on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @01:41PM (#39107664)
“Also —and this didn’t make sense to us either— it doesn’t float, and there’s no engine. Our best guess is that it’s meant as a comment on the fulity of life.”
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by p1mrx on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:04PM (#39108967)
You can make Benchy float by slicing it with solid infill in the bottom/rear, and minimal infill everywhere else:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6076719

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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by 1970-01-01 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:05PM (#39108030)
3D printed plastics only last a few centuries. Future archeologists are not going to find these in thousands of years.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by altairTF on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:14PM (#39108165)
In the joke world they will, along with the lost of all current knowldge of what the 3D boat is
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by nextaccountic on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:56PM (#39108857)
In a few decades, 3d printed metals and other long lasting materias might be accessible to hobbysts
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by bigiain on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:26PM (#39111459)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXhH6SbYILg&t=945s
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by taneq on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:42PM (#39111592)
Time to cast a Benchy in aluminium using lost PLA!
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by s0rce on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @04:52PM (#39110460)
or one of these: https://www.ebay.com/itm/304770714900?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt...
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by qingcharles on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @11:29AM (#39119271)
That seems exceptionally cheap for the work that went into it?
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by s0rce on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:05PM (#39119728)
Magic of Eastern European manufacturing, can probably turn them out in not too much time.
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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by devnullbrain on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @07:56PM (#39112236)
Or a welder's bend test:

https://victesting.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/img_031...

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Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed ... by Geee on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @09:49PM (#39113024)
It might also be considered as a proof of very small humans who were known for sailing in their small boats.
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