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Mar 30, 2025 6:44 PM
SquirrelWithATophat
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TennisieB
Try volunteering for Meals on Wheels. It's a great organization and many of their clients are fossils ;-)
Snooj
You can purchase human bones and legally own them. Then you can bury and dig them up on your property.
ralph2sam
MoonRiverFrost
Sounds like you need A Game About Digging A Hole
Stefnos
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/82VhCH4fAx8 Bob knows what it's about
fandsor
I feel so very fortunate that I didn't get writer's block during Covid.
EJust
There is this big farm in central TN that you need to go apply to. They call it the Body Farm. It's where forensic Anthropologists test how a body looks after days, weeks months years... Go look it up!
GreaterDog
Ah bummer, I was gonna say get a metal detector and become That Guy
wolfspirit21
Diggy hole?
drduffer
UVA Forensic Anthropology Department, and a few others, I believe, may have a place for @OP in their next class.
jeffois
Or UU has the Department of Post-mortem Communications... Definitely NOT Necromancy, but you get a cool ring.
drduffer
Sauce:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_farm
TeaOverdose
That's very cool, but all the posts above were made during the firts months of covid and were about lockdown. I think it sucks that there's no date stamp that would add that very specific context.
Bamaji
Dissect a regurgitated owl pellet and then identify the bones you find.
SaguaroSun
I found one outside my mom's house today. If felt so funny to admit I recognized it.
3Davideo
And if you can't buy any, you can make your own.
speakharp
I did that project in elementary, what an interesting thing they had us children do for science.
Mostlydeadpool
what if doctor Kevorkian's doctorate was in bio-archaeology and he was just collecting samples?
scaredshirtless
Bioarcheology sounds cool, but when does it switch over from grave robbing to archeology? Like, is there a definitive line or is it more like "no one remembers people were buried here, so it's history and not crime!"?
decarnatedame
I thought Bioarchaeology was something Betelgeuse did.
SalmonTheWise
I think finding human remains anywhere other than an officially designated cemetery would make it archeology or forensic investigation (depending on how fresh are the remains) and definitely not grave robbing because it's not a grave. Also archeologists will have a permit and will act in official capacity. So no amateur archeology and keeping the bones for yourself, if you find them you have to report it and they will be moved to appropriate place by professionals.
alexburgers
mostly in the attitude of the person doing the work (are you trying to learn something, or are you trying to find treasure?) but beyond that, yeah, nobody left alive who personally remembers this person being alive, or a hundred-or-so years, generally puts it in "history".
If it's much newer, it might instead be forensics, which does have some overlap. :)
RobBobertyYT
Saw this a while ago, it makes more sense if you know it's from deep into quarantine times.
MaybeIllDisappear
Do you want me to bury some Halloween skeletons in the backyard for you to dig up?
NancyReaganSchoolOfGawk
Columbus43219
Knew a contractor that found a skeleton while digging the foundation for a new porch. They just covered it up and kept going.
charondaboatman
I mean, you can buy fake skeletons and have your partner or friends bury them for you. Like a scavenger hunt…..
JustATemp123
Bonus surprise if you sell the house and don't find them all after you bury them
charondaboatman
Oh. Don’t bury them just in your own yard…..lol
Stoneagedudeman
I started translating latin texts during covid instead of using the already translated books.
We all wallow in the madness
Marsupialmessiah
Kiriiii iiiiieeeeeh eleison.... its the 90s again! Yay ! Grata, fortuna sit tecum, bonus animus! Jajajajaja
GravyEducation
One of the greatest gifts I ever got was a Latin translation of the Hobbit when I was learning Latin. God I loved that girl and I never told her
geoffreyfourmyle
A dude I know is very good at Latin (he's a university professor, not certain his exact field), and I happened to see a Latin translation of The Hobbit at the bookstore. Gifted it to him with "something to read during future lockdowns".
GravyEducation
Someone gave me the same. Good gift
MuffinProof
*Sigh* What did you accidentally summon this time?
Marsupialmessiah
The wrong kind of messiah...
EmptyHouseBurglar
Arma virumque cano...
Clayman8
SO ALL OF *THIS* IS YOUR FAULT THEN?! DIDNT THEY TEACH YOU NEVER TO READ ANCIENT LATIN OUT LOUD OR WORSE, TRANSLATE IT?!
MrStealYourGiF
More translations is always better. The other year I caught an allusion to an Ancient Greek poem in another work. Two translations completely missed the symbology of the piece, the third interpreted it badly and possible erroneously, the fourth was technically a mess in how it murdered English grammar, but shed more light than any of the others and finally I got my allusion understood.
GravyEducation
My teachers discouraged "improvisational" readings. No it has to be read this way! Okay that's bunkum because language itself can never be read singularly, it's communication, it's Barthes, it's Foucault. My translation is more poetic imo. Kinda like Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. Just because academia says this is the Way doesn't mean This is the Way
OmNachoMama
Ian McKellan's solo, Acting Shakespeare, talked about Romeo and Juliet actually being a comedy of sorts. He did the balcony scene, but read it as Juliet being very impatient and Romeo very flustered. It shone a light on how much we really don't know about the playwright's intent and the language of the time
eetsumkaus
me as a Japanese speaker occasionally stumbling across anime subtitles done by stressed translators on an unreasonable deadline. Many of them either miss allusions, or entirely leave them out probably because it's hard to explain. It's one of the reasons I don't ever want to consume anything through translation again.
CedricDur
Someone translated 'bowling night' as 'cake night' because bowling sounds kinda like bolo, which in turns means cake.
JackalopeElope
This is why is I stick to English writers from the last 50 years or so. "If anyone is going to wildly misunderstand this text it's going to be me!"
GravyEducation
And my drugs!
JackalopeElope
You have to be in the right mindset.
GravyEducation
right mindset
TheobromineAddict
In any science, it's a good idea to occasionally go back and re-run the ancient proofs, the ancient experiments, the ancient observations, and the ancient translations, just to bring fresh eyes to the project that might notice something that was missed the first time around,
Crillol
What we build off of should be tested from time to time to see if something has changed that they could not have seen.
savemebabyjebus
In IT, i occasionally rerun ancient scripts, and amaze that they still work. Even tho i wrote them, and cant remember how i did it!
GCRust
99 errors in the coding data
99 bugs in the code
Take it down, re-compile it around
2,436 bugs in the code (but it runs better then before...)
savemebabyjebus
Im convinced coding is witch craft, therefore, i am a witch, or warlock, or sorcerer