@tinker Benchys have definitely caused me to blaspheme, so "religious object" isn't that far off.

@tinker hadn’t printed one in a while, found an ancient roll of PLA, dried it and printed one of these bad boys flawlessly.

@tinker Technically it would not be completely false... It is actually a ritual when you receive your 3D printer 😄

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Clearly meant to represent the boat that carries their souls into the afterlife.

@tinker Noe Ark...

@tinker And WHAT WILL THEY MAKE OF LEGOS!!!????

@tinker so, when I encountered one of these test objects at home sitting on a counter, my first thought was that it resembled this really old-fashioned toy that I know about: a plastic boat with a little chamber that you put baking soda and citric acid (or whatever) into and then close it down so there's just a little stream of bubbles coming out the back of the boat, and it'll move through the water that way, farting out bubbles of carbon dioxide to impel itself

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Archeologists in the now:

(Old archeologists) The people of this archipelago were primitive because we found no interesting rocks.

(Young archeologists) Based on this boat we found sunk in deep fresh water they had a complex and refined woodworking culture 100k years earlier than your stone working civilization.

(Old archeologists) All these people walked here on a land bridge you know...

(Young archeologists) - rolls eyes in a 'racists will soon be dead' way.

@tinker will be declared a forbidden relic, in the future timeline described on the show Silo.

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obviously a sophisticated fishing calendar, duh

@tinker not unlike my very important dodecahedrons

@tinker High-status people were buried with such objects to ensure their access in the afterlife. In the essay...

@tinker "likely"?

@tinker "...but we don't know why. Okay?"

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<archaeologist voice>
these were built every year and tossed into the shores of Lake Superior in a solumn ceremony in order to appease to their deity named Edmund Fitzgerald.
</archaeologist voice>