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Published: 2008-08-01 21:04:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 8674; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 1506
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i was digging through a box o' stuff and found two of my older sketchbooks! some of their contents were post-worthy, and this is one such content! (i think i just invented a new definition for that word.)Related content
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band purposes? you mean, like, as a logo?
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This is hot. reminds me of Jormungder, or howeevr you spell his name...
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jormungandr, jormung, jormungand, jormungander...eh, it's all the same as long as you've got approximately the right letters. i've never seen it spelled the same way twice, tell ya the truth. my snakie is sort of based on him, though, so good job for noticing! ^^
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*snickers* y'know, now ya mention it, me neither!
ah, cool!
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That's a very creative design. It reminds me of the Ouroboros, and I particularly like the way you have it coiling in and out of itself. It almost looks like it would make a good ring or earring, kind of like a puzzle ring.
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yes, exactly! in fact, it's sort of inspired by a lot of snake legends. did you know that every major culture and/or religion has a legend that prominently features a snake? the same goes for dragons. why do you think humans seem to have a common interest in large scaly things?
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I remember once watching a bit of a documentary on the origins of dragons in mythology, because you're right, they are present in almost every culture. One of their ideas was that homo sapiens' primordial enemies were primarily snakes, birds of prey, and large felines. Features of each of those animals are present in dragons, particularly western dragons.
One could say that we have incorporated pure awesome, the things that humans truly admire in animals, and put them into mythical beasts like dragons, griffins, and so on and so forth.
In this case, I was just in awe of the intertwining pattern.
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and i think everyone on my friends list would agree...
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yeah, i am confident that is the case.
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as surely as my father stands over there admonishing me for staying up so late, my friends hold the collective opinion that dragons pwn!
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As surely as the drawing not two feet away from me attests, dragons rightly do pwn.
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THUS THE COURT HAS REACHED A CONSENSUS!
it's official now.
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Very cool, I like snakes. but I hate spiders, so make no wierd comments. Name him Jormungr!
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i had scribbled "jormungandr," "ourobouros," and "sseth" on the facing page...
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it was a while ago, so i couldn't tell you exactly what my thought process was.
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it had something to do with that. it was actually inspired by jormungandr, the massive serpent of nordic legend that was said to encircle the world, eating its own tail.
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Yes! The roots of the world tree, what was it called? Yggdrasil, that's it. I love norse mythology. I love all mythology, actually. I mentioned asimov a while back I think, but did I mention that the greeks probably invented robots? Hephaestus, the smith of the gods, had two metallic helpers to aid him in his forge.
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and of course there was daedalus! OOH there was an article in the paper yesterday about the antikythera mechanism. the scientists built a computer model of it which reconstructed 37 gears, and they found out that in addition to predicting eclipses, it counted down the time until the olympic games. pretty cool for a device built in 80 b.c., huh?
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Very cool. I thought he was a myth? I like the story of the gordian knot.
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well, okay, daedalus was a myth. but the antikythera mechanism is quite real. i've seen it.
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Very true. Copernicus built a similar device I believe.
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yeah, he built a lot of them. but the antikythera was special because it was the first computer EVER. and it wasn't even the size of a room like our first computer...
i think it was built by a guy named geminedes or something. gemin-something...
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Gemini is the constellation of the twins. I'm not sure it was a computer. Technically, a computer is a device that logically or mathematically manipulates data according to a specific set of instructions. The antikythera doesn't quite count. Sorry.
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you could do stuff like set it to a certain date and it would tell you when the next full moon would be. it did manipulate input data, just not electronically. the scientists called it a computer....
and i realize that gemini is a constellation. in fact, it's my sign. that's how i remembered the first part of the inventor's name, because it started with the same three syllables.
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I guess when you put it that way it could be a computer. Debatable. So who invented the ankythera if it wasn't daedalus?
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daedalus was mythical. i'm telling you, it was the gemin-something dude!
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It was probably either hipparchus or archimedes. It's been dated to around 150 B.C.
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80 b.c.
i'm tellin ya it's the gemin-dude!
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I've got crossreferenced google results from four different sites that all agree.
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well, maybe the newspaper is wrong. i have noticed the quality slipping...perhaps they fired their editor.
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What? What newspaper? I said GOOGLE!
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well, what started our discussion on the topic was an article about the antikythera mechanism i found in the newspaper.
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Oh. Oops. Okay, that makes sense.
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