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I see the hero age as kind of a resonant window. It allows for outliers who can still push society forward, even when it kills them like Galileo and so many other scientists who were executed in the past. if we didn’t have people like Newton, where the hell would we be?

The astronomical models in those scrolls are the real smoking gun. To have star maps tracking the precession of the equinoxes implies observation over thousands of years. We’re talking about systems that encoded time using 26,000-year cycles. The library had people bringing texts from all over the world. Some probably didn’t even understand t…[Read more]