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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry... you think believing the Ancient Egyptians had electricity because those things look kind of like electrical insulators isn't nuts? Because I have news for you- two things can look alike and be totally different things.

This, for example, is not a petrified screw. It's a crinoid. A once-living sea creature.

I don't know what those Egyptian things are, but it is definitely nuts to assume they're electrical insulators just because they resemble them.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's nuts that looks like a bolt.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the "stem" of an ancient sea creature (an animal, not a plant) from about 400 million years ago that looked something like this:

This is sea lily, one of its modern descendants:

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 months ago

Ah, so that's where screws come from. TIL!

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Don't worry, I got your joke!