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02 September 2012

Because I can.

Brought back from the dead. By popular demand.


Thanks to Aristotle,
you now know what
 a fireball is.
Or fire damage.
 Or fire, as a matter of fact.
Aristotle was a smart-ass as you see, but he wasn't the only one. About a hundred years later, a kid was born in Syracuse of Sicily. This kid was named Archimedes. Yeah, that's right, he also happened to be Greek. One of his most famous discoveries is...the one with...the golden...and with....you know what? Fuck it. Let Wikipedia explain it to you:

"The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape. According to Vitruvius, a new crown in the shape of a laurel wreath had been made for King Hiero II, and Archimedes was asked to determine whether it was of solid gold, or whether silver had been added by a dishonest goldsmith. Archimedes had to solve the problem without damaging the crown, so he could not melt it down into a regularly shaped body in order to calculate its density. While taking a bath, he noticed that the level of the water in the tub rose as he got in, and realized that this effect could be used to determine the volume of the crown. For practical purposes water is incompressibleso the submerged crown would displace an amount of water equal to its own volume. By dividing the weight of the crown by the volume of water displaced, the density of the crown could be obtained. This density would be lower than that of gold if cheaper and less dense metals had been added. Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying "Eureka!""

That should explain everything. Of course, you know this anecdote very well because you've been hearing it since you were little brats until now when you're fulltime losers, just to remind yourselves that you live a completely worthless and pathetic life. What still amazes you (as much as it used to, in your childhood) is not the complete genius of the theory, no....of course not. The thing that really amazes you still is the fact that after he had his little revelation, he took to the streets naked. Come on, don't fucking lie, you bloody bastard. You can almost see yourself again:

The Teacher: "Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying "Eureka!""
You: "Holy Mother of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Did he really? What a nutter!" 

And after that you'd think of what did the people around him say. Well, let me tell you what and enlighten you a bit: absolutely frickin' nothing! This was happening in ancient Greece! Do you really think it would've made any difference if he would've just walked out in a toga or a towel? I think people were accustomed enough to seeing each other naked....I don't know....it's just a wild guess....which is a right one, by the way. So stop being so amazed. We'll be back to this bit later.

As you see, Archimedes was also a smart-ass. He invented even more shit that you couldn't possibly wrap you head around. And among those great inventions there's an even greater one, a milestone in humanity's evolution, a key invention that helped us people survive for so long:




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