Every October 14th at 8:21am the sun would shine through my bathroom window and perfectly illuminate the toilet bowl.
I liked to drop a duke in there before that happened because I thought it was hilarious that the universe would celebrate my bowel movement like that.
This is so frustrating because yeah, it’s impressive how advanced the architecture and construction are in many ancient sites. And it’s entirely possible that the Inca believed that the sunlight on a specific day had special power. But the ability to make a building a certain way doesn’t mean they were right about the sunlight, any more than Notre Dame makes the Christian god real.
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“Knowing how shadows and windows work”
Man, the bar is unrealistically high for some people…
I feel kind of bad for the architectural genius they executed. Seems like he was just doing his job.
I’m reminded of a quote from an old Tom Scott video. He’s visiting a modern reconstruction of a Neolithic long barrow. Tom points out that the sun lines up with the entrance on the summer solstice, then it cuts to the owner who says
I think a lot of people would assume that getting the alignments of a monument like this… would involve complex calculations, a sharp pencil, and computing power. But in fact, you can do it just as easily by getting up at the right time with some sticks.
