Only opened the comments to check someone had covered this, thanks!
jpeps
joined 2 years ago
It's a good reason for us to use base 10, but in the past many people have not used base 10. However, the bases a society use often are somehow tied to something about the body. As an example (haven't looked it up for a while, sorry), I think there is/was a group that used base 8, and counted on the gaps between their fingers.
It was really unfortunate. I think sadly the torchbearers probably felt pretty locked in and just followed through. Perhaps they assumed the doves would fly away. Regardless I believe that real doves stopped being used shortly after this ceremony!
Reminds me of the South Korea 1988 Olympics open. Human traditions are cosmic horrors for birds.
I know my job!