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[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They didn't seem terribly useful, compared to other long projects.

  • Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
  • Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
  • Unite humanity with a living new language.
  • Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
  • Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
  • Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
  • Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
  • Balance personal rights with social duties.
  • Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
  • Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

Basically, a freethinker version of the Ten Commandments tablets.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Openly advocating genocide and eugenics? Yeah, definitely not what I would call useful

[–] gbuttersnaps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you read "Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity" as eugenics and genocide, I think you might be jumping the gun a bit based on personal biases. Population bottlenecks require you to be very careful about species-wide gene pools. In a population of 10,000, you don't want Cletus reproducing with his first cousin.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The listed weights and dimensions are the most useful things to me. Knowing the approximate weight of a kilogram and length of a meter would be incredibly useful when trying to recreate things you find in records

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Conspiracists attributed nefarious intent on these stones. I learned about them from a podcast that studies conspiratorial thinking. I didn't realize they'd been destroyed. I kinda think I heard that ep after the time when they were bombed, so maybe that was mentioned and I didn't internalize it.

Heads-up: conspiracy people are potentially dangerous. They blew up these stones that were probably pretty trivial / harmless. They have shot people for perceived great-replacement bullshit (synagogs). This shit isn't just amusing and stupid. They're irrational and they can project and cause harm.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They were quite likely put up by folks that believed the same wack job shit as those that destroyed them.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they were meant to survive nuclear apocalypse, then why did one small non-nuclear bomb bring them down? You'd think they should be better constructed or protected or something.

[–] Anaphylactic_Gock@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elbert County, Georgia. A county with about 20k people in it.

They didn't need to withstand a direct hit. Just the fallout/nuclear winter that would kill most of humanity.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see. I guess odds were pretty low that a nuclear bomb would lay waste to a rural town.

As an aside, I wonder why they used so many languages if the nuclear winter survivors would have been rural Georgians like the ones who built the monument. I don't imagine a Russian survivor would ever find themself in the American Deep South without functional airplanes and such.

The extra languages are probably to help it act as a sort of rosseta stone to help future archeologists.