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Unfiltered_Rabbit t1_j5iu3gb wrote

Awesome. It truly is the world's biggest 3D Puzzle. Makes my Burj Khalifa puzzle seem tiny, and that thing is huge.

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memtiger t1_j5jyldb wrote

Replying to msixtwofive (#1,450,536)

Saying it's older than XXXXX ship doesn't provide a point of context. This was written for a US audience, so using the Columbus landings is a relevant point in time that everyone knows.

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there_i_seddit t1_j5jyo8f wrote

Digitize it and crowdsource. The internet would have this done in a week

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musicvideosonfilm t1_j5k3156 wrote

Replying to msixtwofive (#1,450,536)

Came to the comments to see this. It makes no sense to refer to the oldest British shipwreck found to date "as years before Columbus." It's just an America thing. CBS knows that is as far back as their viewer base can think. Why would 15th century British shipbuilders, sailors, and merchants care about an Italian explorer who hasn't yet found the thing "no one" knew existed?

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Kingcrowing t1_j5k4yfn wrote

Replying to musicvideosonfilm (#1,452,471)

How many 15th century British shipbuilders, sailors, and merchants do you think are watching this? My guess is zero.

How many 21st century people who grow up hearing the adage 'In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue'? My guess is very many.

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OrangeCosmic t1_j5kjila wrote

I wish I had the disposable income to finance historians with this exact stuff. 15-16th century ships are such a passion of mine it's too bad there's so little physical evidence for how they were made.

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CornusKousa t1_j5ks3cv wrote

Replying to there_i_seddit (#1,452,002)

This is how they found countless undiscovered henges and iron age forts in England. They lidar scanned the landscape and gave the public access to the files. The power of hundreds of bored turned tenacious pensioners did the rest.

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gnat_outta_hell t1_j5lahdc wrote

Replying to 405134 (#1,456,295)

Assuming you could meet building codes, probably closer to a minimum 15k factoring in electrical, HVAC, insulation, and plumbing. That's builder cost, so buyers would be looking at 25-30k purchase price.

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Bizmatech t1_j5lapb0 wrote

After watching a few more videos on about this boat, I don't think that the "complexity of the puzzle" is actually slowing them down. It's preserving the pieces that takes so long.

Also, here's the source for the 3D models they used. I think.

Check out the video if you want a better look at what the ship was like when it was fully assembled.

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MrBleeple t1_j5lfhfb wrote

Pales in complexity and size to Chinese ships centuries older

EDIT: lol mad cause Zheng He's treasure ship dwarfed anything that Europe made despite being 100 years older?

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ifsck t1_j5nk8om wrote

Replying to RockyLeal (#1,452,382)

IIRC there was part of Bayon that had been cataloged and the stones from crumbled sections were marked and laid in adjacent open areas by an archeological team, then the records were lost during the Khmer Rouge regime. When I went in 2009 there were blocks with numbers everywhere but no one knew exactly where they went or how to fit them together again.

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I-Make-Maps91 t1_j5udbbp wrote

Replying to CornusKousa (#1,454,870)

That's why I'm so excited about the improvements in AI. We have every increasing wide spectrum imagery and lidar for most of the planet, but trying to find a building in the Amazon is still a needle in a stack of needles. A pattern recognizing AI will be able to blitz through the mountains of data faster than any amount of human processing.

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