• @Uruanna@lemmy.world
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      94 months ago

      Surely the lack of opposable thumbs made it difficult to hold a ruler long enough to measure the Earth precisely.

    • Rose
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      24 months ago

      They probably didn’t have rulers. Or compasses. It was such an early era that geometry wasn’t invented yet.

    • Flying Squid
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      4 months ago

      You’re fooling yourself. They were living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working class dinosaurs…