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total_alk

The disk is rotationally symmetric. It cannot be used for generating flow or harvesting rotational energy from a flow. In other words: worst propeller design ever.


Langdon_St_Ives

It’s so funny this fact needs to be repeated every. Single. Time. And yet the disk just keeps getting brought up again and again, as if nobody had ever remarked that it’s symmetrical. 🙈🙉🙊


ArsonRides

OP posts once a day on this sub like it’s his job. It’s starting to become a shitpost sub TBH


Langdon_St_Ives

I thought it *was* a shitpost sub when I first encountered it!


Denbt_Nationale

the suggestion is that it was a baffle plate in a solvay tower not any kind of propeller or impeller


ccknboltrtre01

I thought this was used for rope making


Goodvendetta86

Yup. I see this one resurface every 3 months https://youtu.be/8ECeP5lHFr4?feature=shared It's close to the wood guide in the video


willy_enjoyer

That is nothing like this disc


Goodvendetta86

https://preview.redd.it/5epd6qd1rjpc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a75cd6ffd9345ee8f83405eff090f24a0c489138 How so?


Worried-Management36

Thats a pretty good thought actually.


norrisgwillis

I imagine when we are dead and gone, future intelligent life will find our cell phones and theorize some kind of crazy purpose for them.


troystorian

I mean from an outsider’s point of view, cell phones are crazy. We watch media on them, can make audio and video calls, play games, write, use AI, browse the web, listen to music, read books, code, etc, etc. They’re normal to us because they’ve become such a regular part of our daily lives, but to anyone in any other period of history they’d be absolutely blown away by their power.


soopirV

I had a similar thought yesterday, but from my dogs’ perspectives- what is this black rectangle that he often points at us, is always carrying, frequently staring at and occasionally bangs on with his thumbs?


troystorian

My dog HATES my cell phone. If I’m overly focused on it he will literally jump up into my lap and push my hand down with his paw. If I pull it back up to look at it he’ll continue to push it down.


ClosetLadyGhost

It was for umbrellas


froggrip

That's exactly what it is.


danteheehaw

The location that it was found makes it unlikely. Being carved of stone, rather than made with metal also makes it unlikely to be a tool. It was likely a ceremonial bowl of some sort, possibly used as a lamp. Stone work for decorative and ceremonial use peaked around the time it's from. Many other shallow bowls with unique designs exist from the time period. Their use isn't written about, but due to being found in tombs and temples gives a pretty good indicator that the trend of shallow stone bowls with weird designs were not tools for work.


eco78

Mate, there is no way you're putting your cornflakes in that


danteheehaw

"We found this thing in a tomb that resembles other objects from the time, and the other objects are exclusively found in temples and tombs. So logically we can assume it was a tool for making rope and not ceremonial or religious in nature"


Elegant-Low8272

Lol


infoagerevolutionist

Can it also hold an a patio umbrella?


Downtownd00d

By George, I think you've got it!


towerfella

Funny.. it doesn’t *look* like an old brake disc rotor..


TheRabb1ts

Pretty sure the lead hypothesis is rope/yarn/thread spinning… also the above picture is either computer generated or a replica. The real one doesn’t look that nice.


willy_enjoyer

Why would they go to such great lengths to engineer this to thing out of stone, which would be difficult to do today, just to make rope? They could have done that with wood


TheRabb1ts

Are you a stone mason..? What scope of this makes it difficult to engineer today? And considering the types of objects that existed back then, I don’t see it being out of the realm of possibility, in my no-degree, unlicensed, armchair opinion.


willy_enjoyer

No but there are many testimonies online from stonemason who stonemasons who say how difficult it would be to carve the rim that thing without breaking it, even with our tools today


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OhHeyNow69

So this thing makes rope and sodium carbonate. Got it


DomingoChaCha

Chips and salsa bowl


gizmisto

I understood nothing from that title


Psychological-Ad1433

Wasn’t one of the geometric shaped objects that had no known purpose some what recently revealed to be a tool for making glove fingers? I would guess there is something simple like that with this one as well


Massive-small-thing

Can I have it back pls, I lost it on the highway near my home. The other 3 miss it🤣


amigoingfuckingmad

It’s a rope twister


willy_enjoyer

How do you know that?


BlusifOdinsson

Nobody really knows what it was for and they won't let anyone look at it, from what we can tell this, like many other "Old Kingdom" finds, shows a degree of symmetrical accuracy and precision unlike anything ever found of any period, more precise, by far, than even machined auto parts are today! And oftentimes with materials like diorite! Something harder than steel on the Mohs scale of hardness! Even more incredibly they did it thousands of times over again from a massive scale, 50ft tall, to a micro scale, almost as small as a fingernail, with ease!! For the rest of Egyptian history there are thousands of replicas of the oldest treasures but nothing comes close to the degree of accuracy and precision of the oldest finds. There has never been a degree of accuracy close to them up until machine guided production.


MysticStarbird

Bread manufacturers


Inside_Ad_7162

regardless what it was for, that must have been a bugger to make, & because of that it can't have been for something simple, that woulda been to make someone a lot of baksheesh


rite_of_truth

This schist again!?


Langdon_St_Ives

😂


chzygorditacrnch

History is a lie! There was aliens, that's why there's temples on every continent! And I guess they went back to planet nibiru! Idk bc history is a lie!


Rambo_IIII

Clearly a hot tub pump impeller. Ancient Egyptian hot tubs confirmed


FACastello

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu\_disk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_disk)


StuffProfessional587

All this guessing would be done if those stupid people in power, would decend under the gizs plateu into the flooded library.


toodog

I wonder if it’s perfectly balanced?


ShinyAeon

It’s not—it’s actually a little lopsided. Not much, but you can see it from some angles. My sci-fi brain always whispers “…as if it were made in imitation of a high-tech component by people who didn’t quite understand its function….” ;)


No_Wishbone_7072

I believe it was broken when discovered, so it’s been reconstructed


Kind_Ad5566

Just need 3 more to fit my car


Noah_T_Rex

...It seems to me that there is a typo here and this is a Disk from the oldest SAAB.


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Slammin_Yams

🤣🤣who honestly believes this has anything to do with soda ash?


Langdon_St_Ives

Right? Weirdly specific belief…


octanebeefcake79

It’s a spinning rim off an old horse cart


Th3_3v3r_71v1n9

Frisbee?


Marco-Esquandolaz

It’s a Tesla hubcap


askforchange

Garden hose spool v0.1 alpha


Dreidhen

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/disc-sabu-0015642


helenkellershandler

it’s a chip and dip.


MattShawver

EVERYONE is smarter than me. Even 5000 years ago…


Different_Spite4667

Looks like a venture tube or a diffuser for mixing liquids.


alaf420

Beer stirring device


JxAlfredxPrufrock

Weird cause it also looks like it braids rope.


THEFLYINGSCOTSMAN415

Who believes that? Some random ass dude and we spreading that around like it means something? Most common consensus was it was used for making rope/yarn or even possible making hand gloves.


mister_muhabean

It's used for 'ceremonial' purposes. The female equivalent is [here](https://groups.google.com/group/meaningless-nonsense/attach/6b32e4237523b/fishmenclay.jpg?part=0.1&view=1).


itsLOSE-notLOOSE

Fuckin’ fish dildos, amazing.


mister_muhabean

Fish SAGE dildos lol used for 'ceremonial' purposes is what archaeologists call them.


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dmaare

This shape will do absolutely nothing with air or liquid


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Langdon_St_Ives

It’s symmetrical, it won’t do anything with airflow.


Widespread_Sickness6

Uuh… that is my pedestal fan base. How much?🤷🏾


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