"Joke's on you, Fisk, I literally never saw them to begin with."
Gary said:
Ha! I think about that all the time. "Could I explain anything?"
It probably doesn't help that the dude was dropped in the middle of some lost Siberian Neanderthal tribe, either. Watt had invented his steam engine 50 years before ol boy got teleported to middle of nowhere-ville around a campfire
FWIW, the Romans were *this close* to a work-producing steam engine. The Industrial Revolution could have happened 2000 years ago.
Also, "if I left you alone in the woods with a hatchet, how long before any of you could send me an email?"
In reply to P3PPY :
The thing is, too, that Watt's steam engine required a lot of technology like precision measurement and machining that existed in large part because of firearms development hundreds of years earlier, that existed because of developments in materials science and blacksmithing, which existed because...
There's a LOT of technology to bootstrap you up to making electricity with magnets and coiled wires. Or isolating certain chemicals.
Reminds me of the bit in Brave New World where the mother trapped on the Reservation was explaining chemistry by saying, well we get this and that chemical from another floor in the company...
How many blacksmiths -today- can start out by smelting their own iron ore? (Besides Japanese swordsmiths)
Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to P3PPY :
How many blacksmiths -today- can start out by smelting their own iron ore? (Besides Japanese swordsmiths)
Get out of my YouTube playlist.
In reply to Stampie :
No. It's fun here.
Reminds me of the line from the movie, 40 year old virgin.
"Oh I remember her, she was a hoe, for sho"
In reply to Dusterbd13 :
NileRed made a video with that chemical.
Specifically, he made "American Cheese" using cheddar and that and some water. Maybe one or two other minor things. The key is that the main ingredient other than cheese is water, and the sodium citrate is only there to keep the two together.
I think American Cheese is gross, mostly because I think cheddar is gross.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Probably the essential basis of technology is the screw (as in a threaded rod, not a wood screw). If you can make one of those, you can make a lot of things, most importantly, other screws and tools.
Now, how do you create a screw without another screw! Well, I guess you could start by carefully carving one and try to optimize from there...
Noddaz said:
dan0 said:
Looks just like the stairs at the State Trooper Barracks that go from interview to holding, 'cept holding is at the bottom.
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