r/BeAmazed • u/Awkward_Click3061 • Nov 11 '23

Science Look at that

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u/Azsde Nov 11 '23

Since those two places are quite far away from each other, how were they able to compare the shadows at the same time? There were obviously no way of instant communication back then.

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u/FirstRedditAcount Nov 11 '23 edited Nov 11 '23

Thank you for giving a real, concrete answer, unlike the people going, "uh they just walked back and forth, or they just wrote down what time they did it" not understanding why this alone wouldn't work. No, they need to have a reference datum.

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u/GoArray Nov 11 '23

You mean, they didn't carry a 5 week tall hour glass?

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u/FirstRedditAcount Nov 11 '23

They actually had one of those string telephones, with 2 big cups and a reeeally long wire.

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u/ianjm Nov 11 '23

Greeks didn't have tin cans, means the Earth must be flat.