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What conspiracy theory, no matter how silly, do you believe in? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Up_dog@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I believe that there’s a huge magnet of sorts in the core of earth that attracts a specific brand, BIC, to it.

The only two items that always go missing. Pens. Lighters.

Always BIC.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 18 points 1 week ago

The romans had circuitry. Maybe not electric powered, but water powered? Oh you bet. If they could rig up an entire senate to rotate like a lazy suzan by manufacturing ball bearings and hooking it up to advanced gearing powered by a river....?

Plus they knew how to work with lead metal, so other conductive metals werent completely out of reach, and they were masters of mass-scale uniform production. Their road structures and aquaducts barely even scratch the surface of what their engineers could do