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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(15th_century_BC)

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The Battle of Megiddo (fought 15th century BC) was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh.

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At Karnak it is recorded that the victorious army took home 340 prisoners, 2,041 mares, 191 foals, six stallions, 924 chariots, 200 suits of armor,[dubious  discuss] 502 bows, 1,929 cattle, 22,500 sheep, and the royal armor, chariot and tent-poles of the King of Megiddo.

340 prisoners
2k horses and 2k cows
22 500 sheep (interesting, if it includes the eaten while driving to home)
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(it's important!) tent-poles.

It's Thutmose III, one of the greatest Ancient Egyptian kings, the most glorious and famous of his victories.

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"340 prisoners..."

"tent poles..."

Obviously, just local technologies.

great-pyramid.jpg

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On the other hand, it explains why Egypt is now a desert.

It was covered with forest, but all trees have been cut to roll the stones for pyramids across logs.

 

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15 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(15th_century_BC)

340 prisoners
2k horses and 2k cows
22 500 sheep (interesting, if it includes the eaten while driving to home)
...
(it's important!) tent-poles.

It's Thutmose III, one of the greatest Ancient Egyptian kings, the most glorious and famous of his victories.

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"340 prisoners..."

"tent poles..."

Obviously, just local technologies.

great-pyramid.jpg

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On the other hand, it explains why Egypt is now a desert.

It was covered with forest, but all trees have been cut to roll the stones for pyramids across logs.

 

I was wondering about the loot here, it was not an field battle, or rater it was one followed by an siege and the city surrendered and this was the loot. I assume the leaders and the livestock. 

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On 3/19/2023 at 12:18 AM, TheSaint said:

True story: When my father enlisted in the Army in 1939, he told them that he had no middle name. Because he had no middle name, his parents never gave him one. The sergeant at the enlistment center looked at him and said, "You can't enlist without a middle name. Your middle name is Winfred." And that's what went down on his enlistment paperwork, and it followed him all the way through his enlistment. So much so that on his gravestone, which was paid for by the DoD, he has a middle initial of W.

That was weird, most people in Norway don't have middle names. 
However back in the 19'th century lots of people did not have surnames. If you owned an farm or was of an wealthy family you did but most laborers did not. 
Then you had to have surname by law, most used their fathers name or the place they lived who had some comical effects like more than one guy using an railway line as surname as he worked on building it. 
100 years later all had surnames except the royal family, this created problems then the king should fly, they use Rex as surname then required by systems.

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7 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

What if quantum entanglement is because the two entangled particles are using the same seed in the random number generator on the computer that's running our Universe?

I second that, that's a good question

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11 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

What if quantum entanglement is because the two entangled particles are using the same seed in the random number generator on the computer that's running our Universe?

Write up a bug report.

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1 hour ago, ColdJ said:

Get yourself a big bag of Scrabble tiles and randomly pull the tiles out and lay them down in the order they come.

As the Universe is being generated from seed, and is fractal itself, we should find a seed to generate the error log.

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8 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

As the Universe is being generated from seed, and is fractal itself, we should find a seed to generate the error log.

And a seed to create said seed. As the universe is finite,[citation needed] there are only be a finite amount of seeds. Eventually, we'll get to a "seed loop". If the log file isn't a seed itself, that would mean that at least one seed gives two different results, which is not possible. Therefore, the log file is itself a seed. If it happens that the log file (or log seed) is part of a seed loop, then we can reduce the search time drastically, as we only need to find the correct seed loop. However, we currently have no way of determining whether a seed loop is correct or not;[citation needed] therefore, it will take a large amount of time to find the log file, as we have no way to shorten the amount of seeds needed.

However, if we consider that the log file is a binary number, and by extension a text file, or any kind of file that can be represented on one of our computers, as well as different languages, encodings, and minor, subtle presentation and organization differences, then the amount of seeds that correspond to the log file increase a lot; the amount of seeds that need to be checked therefore decreases. That means that the amount of seeds that need to be checked may be quite small,[citation needed] maybe so small that it could be possible to find the log file before the end of the century (approx. 76.8 years).

There are, however, a few quirks. First, we don't know how to get the next seed from a given seed. Second, as the log file must be updated decillions of times per picosecond (10-12 sec.), it is constantly changing, and so does its seed. Even if we can finally get the log file,[citation needed] it can be a very old one, but it will not update anyways, so we'll have to re-search it everytime we need it, which can prove to be resource-intensive[citation needed] if we want to get it before death comes (we surely want).

In conclusion, tha would be doable, but hard[citation needed] and resource-intensive,[citation needed] and we lack some important knowledge that limit our search.

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19 hours ago, Nazalassa said:

In conclusion, tha would be doable, but hard[citation needed] and resource-intensive,[citation needed] and we lack some important knowledge that limit our search.

And just as @Nazalassa worked out the correct seed in a flash of genius, the Earth was destroyed to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass.

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13 hours ago, ColdJ said:

All showers should have a pause valve for while you are lathering up.

The showers in the Ramstein AB gym (1996 - 1999) had only one control: a push button.  Pushing the button gave you about 30 seconds of shower (preset temperature and pressure).  After 30 seconds the shower flow stopped.  Take however long you want to lather up.  Press the button again for another 30 seconds at a time to rinse off.

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14 hours ago, ColdJ said:

All showers should have a pause valve for while you are lathering up.

On the sub that was how the showers worked. You had the normal hot and cold water valves, which you opened and adjusted to get the temperature right. But then the shower head had a little push-button cutoff valve on it. So you opened the hot and cold, got wet, then cut off the water at the shower head. You lathered up, got the shampoo in your hair, then turned the water back on and rinsed off. Because on a submarine, fresh water is available, but not plentiful.

Of course, there were also the isolation valves for the shower, which were located in the overhead just outside the shower door, one for the hot water and one for the cold water. And we would never dream of reaching up into the overhead and shutting off the hot water isolation valve while the new guy was taking his shower. No, that would be mean and wrong.... :D

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