I know ancient Egypt oriented their maps with south facing up. That’s the way the river flowed.

We used to face maps to the East - that’s why you can “orient” your map to the Oriental. It’s literally the origins of those two words.

I’m literally in the middle of part 2 and thought “I haven’t hit that part yet!” lol

Yeah, but more of them are both 30+ spouses on their first marriage now too.

It’s less the age gap itself I’m worried about and more the legality of child marriage in “developed” parts of the world still on the books.

Well, we keep touching them. That doesn’t help. Neither would nighttime. Even if the radiation was consistently strong enough to sterilize the sidewalk, as soon as someone walks on it at nighttime, you’ve got bacteria waiting for morning. Never mind all the northern sides of buildings that don’t see direct sunlight.

In 2020, not 2019. March 2020 is when the lockdowns in North America started, Europe was only a few weeks ahead, China only announced their outbreak late 2019.

So no, this is prior to all the COVID shutdowns.

Our experience with daylight savings time distorts the comparison. Without DST, could your local winter dark be pushed back to 6pm? And throw in a bad 6 that looks like an 8 and then someone miscopied and now you’re reading a typo that persisted.

And that’s assuming the locals were particularly punctual and hadn’t let the town clock run into disrepair and keep time poorly. Or maybe there were still enough people out and about from 5-8 and houses with lamps lit up that carrying your own wasn’t necessary until 8. There’s a lot of variables for each city, town, and village.

…and GRRM calls the same technique his “gardening method” of writing…throw something out there and find a use for it later.

Yeah, the fact that no one dies OF herpes has a lot to do with the impetus to find a vaccine vs everyone who gets rabies dies. And even then HPV is related to herpes, can lead to cancer, and now has a vaccine. So…wait patiently, probably. They’re working on the deadly ones first, not the annoying ones that do have a reasonably easy treatment.

So is paper towel. And tea towels. What do YOU wipe your grease up with that isn’t flammable? Asbestos?

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Rome is still Rome today, filled with Romans, even though it’s “height of civilization” was two thousand years ago. Of course it was still Mayan, Greeks are still Greeks even after Ottoman conquest for centuries. They are still Mayan even after some fights with their old neighbours and new.

Simplicity. An embryo is more simple-celled than the whole baby. It’s much, much easier to successfully freeze a zygote that’s only split into a couple pairs of cells (an embryo) than the millions of cells that a baby consists of (never mind the millions more a grown adult has compared to a baby).