Archeologists in the future, "It was likely a religious or ritual object."
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@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 "...but we don't know why. Okay?"
<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>
@tinker Hip archaeologists: we believe it was used in some arcane fertility ritual.
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Would they be wrong, though?
@tinker They’d be right about the ritual part. We print it and pray that the bed is level, hot end temp is set correctly, slicing didn’t do anything weird, and everything works as intended!
@tinker https://onlinecampus.fcps.edu/media2/Social_Studies/WHGII_2010/Era1Topic2/Resources/Motel_of_Mysteries.pdf
I got my avatar from this, might be of interest
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...And Steamboat Willie was some sort of powerful deity.
@tinker This is basically the premise behind Motel of the Mysteries (which left a strong impression on me as a child) https://i.abackstrom.com/share/2026/09/mysteries.pdf
@tinker Isn't printing a Benchy with a new printer a ritual? 🤔
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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.