What are the windmills used for? Is it for milling grains?
I suspect many bread makers would immediately recognize the name of the province where the windmills are located.
Thousand year-old windmills in Iran (2017)
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#43Iran also has ancient natural air conditioning tech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher Persians are very smart people
I wonder if they enjoyed fame and technical 'supremacy' (pardon the term) at the time kinda like the western world in the last century.
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#44There's likely an interesting Ship of Theseus debate to be had about whether these are indeed thousand-year-old windmills, and whether it's accurate to consider the windmills build a thousand years ago to be "still standing".
Well so are you. None of you exists from ten years ago. Are you still you?
I have a few tatoos that are way older than 10 years. So at least the bits with ink in them are still there.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
People whinge about new things. You don't see anyone complaining that the pyramids are an eyesore or the Arc de Triomphe is a waste of taxpayers' money.
The Eiffel Tower wasn’t well received at first, now it’s a part of Parisian identity. Gotta love that cycle.
Guy de Maupassant loathed it so much that he ate lunch there daily, since it was the only place that it didn't spoil the sklyine.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well so are you. None of you exists from ten years ago. Are you still you?
I have a few tatoos that are way older than 10 years. So at least the bits with ink in them are still there.
Yes. The dead parts can remain. The living parts change.
Weird stuff are we.