chariots

Should schools allow students to reach their own conclusions as to whether the Earth is flat, or whether the Sun is pulled across the sky by chariots?

And when Darius tried to bring back chariots with scythed wheels to defeat Alexander, it just didn't work.

Then came the elders of the House of Yahoo, a BIG people, whose chariots were many but whose engines were grown cold.

Electronic soundtrack reminscent of Chariots of Fire, which played during the Mac intro.

I've had California Chariots and RipSticks and Turtles and a bunch of other things like this.

But heck, for all I know we should still be riding around in buggies and chariots.

Actually regarding Judah's defeat from the inhabitants with the iron chariots, it was because they were afraid of them and not trusting God (see Judges 2:1-3).

Yeah, I'm amazed that people consistently run around reinventing the wheel, when there are 18-wheeled chariots out there free for the grabbing.

But crucially if you could show that, say, maglev chariots would satisfy this part of the regulation rather than a ramp then you can do this.

I predicted someone would lash the Claude Code camels together into chariots, and that is exactly what I’ve done with Gas Town.

I think Leo is overselling his chariots a little bit.

The Chariots of the gods was impressive piece of work to read when I was a child and it definitely started something that lasts to this day.

"Chariots of the Gods?" is also that objectively wrong: there is no possible universe in which its claims are true.

I could have quoted Exodus 14:7 - "And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them." That's the other one which which comes quickly to mind.

(Well, the other topic; there are several verses which mention those Egyptian chariots.) But the qualifier "chariots of iron " gives an idea that they've been around long enough to need a qualifier.

It really opened my mind to how smart and motivated ancient people were, not at all like our stereotypes from "The Flintstones" and "Chariots of the Gods?".

Chariots has some interesting points in it, but there are heaps and heaps of parts that are either simply untrue or have been disproved.

The Piri Reis Map also finds mention in the controversial 'Chariots of Gods' book by Erich Von Daniken which is largely labeled as 'pseudoscientific'.

Chariots were only really used for racing.