#ancient technology

[this-is-cool]

The sublime and beautiful sci-fi-themed creations of Derek Jones - https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/the-sublime-and-beautiful-sci-fi-creations-of-derek-jones/

#Derek Jones #this-is-cool #scififantasyhorror #digital art #sci-fi art #concept art #science fiction art #concept artist #sci-fi artist #digital artist #concept designer #futuristic art #ancient technology

[holycosmolo9y]

Earliest evidence of dental implants, adorned by Pharoahs

#art #archaeology #ancient technology #ancient world #ancient #ancient history #kemetic #ancient kemet

[pocketseizure]

Something that bothers me about the backstory of Tears of the Kingdom is that the fall of Zonai civilization is never explained. Even before the war with the Demon King, the Zonai already seemed to be in severe decline. During his formal surrender, Ganondorf taunts Rauru by claiming that he and his sister Mineru are the only two remaining Zonai, and there seems to be no evidence to the contrary.

As Rauru guides Link through the Gardens of Time, he explains that the Zonai used their technology to build a civilization that "flourished for many, many years," presumably before the founding of Hyrule. In Breath of the Wild, ancient technology was somewhat sinister, as demonstrated by the disasters precipitated by the malfunctions of the Divine Beasts. Was the decline of the Zonai also connected to their technology, somehow?

I'm intrigued by the implications of Rauru's meditations on the Temple of Time, which he claims was originally on the surface. I wonder how the islands floating over Hyrule came to exist, and whether their creation was perhaps an unintended consequence of Zonai technology. This is just a theory, but such disruptions to the natural environment might be a result of the use of the secret stones in particular, which might explain why Hyrule Castle suddenly rose into the sky as soon as the seal on the stones it was built to protect was broken.

#Tears of the Kingdom #Breath of the Wild #Rauru #Zonai #ancient technology #Zelda speculation #TotK spoilers

[ancientorigins]

How did the ancients keep food fresh before refrigerators were invented? In the deserts of Persia, they built Yakhchal, covered ice pits that preserved food and drink.

#Ice #Refrigerator #Yakhchal #Persia #Iran #Ancient technology #ancient #history #ancient origins

[dielukedie]

My ancient Dell laptop fired up for the first time in almost 2 decades like it was yesterday!

I mainly used it for making beats on early FL Studio and Sound Forge software. I can still edit these, insane. What a time capsule! Finally found the power cord so I just had to see if it still worked.

Look how many sexy ports, 8 just on the back! Fuck new laptops, I have 4 on my new Surface!

#retro electronics #dell laptop #fl studio #2000s #y2k tech #windows xp #mine #computer #computer ports #ancient technology #throwback

[thesilicontribesman]

Reconstructed Prehistoric Fishing Net, Hull and East Riding Museum, Hull, Yorkshire

#ice age #stone age #bronze age #copper age #iron age #neolithic #mesolithic #calcholithic #paleolithic #prehistoric #prehistory #fish catcher #fishing net #ancient technology #ancient living #ancient culture #relic #archaeology #yorkshire #hull

[cricketcat9]

Who can cook

on this stove? I can. Let me know, just curious

#ancient technology #kitchen appliances

[historical-schemata]

The Incan Technosphere

“In the techno-sphere of the Andes people solved basic engineering problems through the manipulation of fibers, not by creating and joining hard wooden or metal objects. To make boats, Andean Cultures wove together reeds rather than cutting trees into planks and nailing them together. Although smaller than big European ships, these vessels were not puddle-mufflers; Europeans first encountered Tawantinsuyu in the form of an Inka ship sailing near the equator… it had a crew of twenty and was easily the size of a Spanish cavaralle. Famously the Inka used foot thick cables to make suspension bridges across the mountain gorges. And although Andean troops carried bows, javelins, maces, and clubs, their most fearsome weapon, the sling, was made of cloth. A sling is a woven pouch attached to two strings. The slinger puts a stone or slug in the pouch, picks up the strings by the free ends, spins them around a few times, and releases one of the strings at the proper moment. Expert users could hurl a stone with such force that it would kill a horse.” - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

#incan empire #american indian #mesoamerica #native american #ancient technology #engineering #1491

[cyberegypt]

Cyberpunk Aesthetic + Ancient Egypt = Inside a Data Pyramid

#science fiction #scifi #gif #atmospheric #oriental #ancient egypt #antiquity #egyptian #egyptian antiquities #ancient egyptian #data center #ancient technology #neon lights #neon #neon aesthetic #glow #glow aesthetic

[greekmythcomix]

Check out my new tablet!

Even comes with a stylus, and doesn’t need charging 😁

#sorry lol #dad joke #Roman joke #Roman dad joke #archaeology #Roman stuff #romans #ancient technology

[mcgravin]

500,000 years from now, a machine intelligence residing in the matrioshka brain that has been built within the event horizon of Saggitarius A* (who is descended from a full-neural upload mind collective, who is descended from cybernetically enhanced transhumans, who is descended from you or one of your relatives) looks through the eyes of one of its remote drones 27,000 light years away, currently visiting the Museum of Old Earth Artifacts in orbit around Alpha Centauri B.

The machine intelligence sees something in the museum that catches its eye and pauses nearly a third of its million concurrent tasks to devote more attention to it: a rectangle of glass and silicon circuits in a metal shell, but self-evidently some kind of early communication device. The placard reads "iPhone 5, circa Human Era year 12,013 (2013 CE by the common Old Earth dating system)". Wasn't that around the time humans invented chemical rocketry to first leave their planet and set foot on its moon?

The intelligence marvels at the rudimentary technology, using sensors to probe the device down to the last electron in the NAND gates of its flash memory cell. The processing speed is laughably slow, and the data storage infinitesimally small. It uses a radio transceiver of all things (sub-lightspeed, how quaint!), and probably couldn't reach past 25km, let alone to the next planet.

Yet the device's operating system is completely intelligible, even compatible with the intelligence's own thought system. It knows that if it tunneled down through the layers of its own brain, through the kernels and interpreters, deep under even the qubit layer, its mind uses binary computation, just like this practically prehistoric device. It must be a bit like a human of that ancient era looking at a virus and recognizing that both have RNA in their cell nuclei.

Then the intelligence uses its drone to manipulate the "iPhone 5", activating the screen. The drone's eyes see on the screen:

The intelligence suddenly regrets not having a physical body that can sigh deeply, and instead uses its drone to roll its eyes. Perhaps it's for the best that this particular hominid species drove itself extinct only a few centuries later.

(Inspired by this post by @gallusrostromegalus.)

#fiction #scifi #far future #ancient technology #archaeology

[rjalker]

Well I dreampt I found my ancient MP3 player, but it was red and black instead of just red. (mine is solid black with a little red ribbon tied on the back so we could tell them apart) I do in fact know it's around here somewhere put away safely lol. There's a small chance it'd still work if I plugged it in but I don't feel like actually looking for it.

I don't actually remember what brand it is, but it's a small black rectangle with a little pixel screen with I think blue lights, a little clicker circle to select things, a clip on the back, and it has a radio, which you could record from.

mine lasted longer than everyone else's because I had it set to turn the screen off automatically after a few seconds of not doing anything, everyone else wanted to always have the screen on.

it's probably in my closet somewhere.

#Rjalker has weird dreams #ancient technology #lol #guess what it had. everything the ipods do not!

[constantly-deactivated]

***History Lesson***

#pay attention #educate yourself #educate yourselves #wake the fuck up #wake up #wake up america #wake up people #wake up world #do your own research #do your research #do some research #do your homework #exposing the truth #think about it #think for yourself #think for yourselves #a time in history #history lesson #ancient technology #reinventing history #reinventing the future

[ancientorigins]

Today renewable energy is more important than ever, but it’s been around for a long time. The windmills of Chiffon village in Iran have been operating for 1000 years.

#Windmills #Iran #conservation #heritage #tradition #ancient technology #ancient #history #ancient origins

[wakamotogarou]

Ancient temple with a Dielectric Resonator Antenna. (They insulate as well as osculate) This holds frequency better than any metal modern counterpart.

Borobudur is a temple that took over 100 years to build, from the time of Rakai Mataram Ratu Sanjaya (717-745) until it was completed in 825 and inaugurated during the reign of Sri Maharaja Samarottungga (782-835)

#ancient technology #Borobudur

[smm-service]

#Historic Battles #Mysterious Texts #Secret Chambers #Historical Investigations #Mysterious Symbols #Ancient Technology #Forbidden History #Historical Puzzles #Mysterious Events #Ancient Scripts #Hidden Treasures