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		rman666 on May 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why did the peoples of the New World fail to inven... They almost invented the wheel when they invented the Mayan calendar. It's a wheel, but instead of a hole in the center being used for an axle, they put the head of one of the winners/loosers of those court bat games. So close but yet so far. See http://crankyphoneguy.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/mayancalan.... That's my theory, anyway.

stcredzero on May 17, 2009 [–]

So it would've worked if the Mayans were a lot taller, axially symmetric, and stiffer under rigor mortis?

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