Have you actually smelted and alloyed useable steel from ores before?
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outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I have very few practical skills in the modern day.
But if you need to set up a society from scratch, I can get you electricity, steel, solid agriculture, and a handful of life saving medications depending on climate.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 10 months ago
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Not from ores, and not on my own, but if I spent a minute I could remember how to go from ‘chopped dowm this tree with a rock’ to that.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I think the fault in this “in theory I know this” is that there’s a shitload of small issues that pile up when you try to do things in practise that need that accumulated (practical) knowledge to overcome.
Rooster326@programming.dev 10 months ago
Like trying to find food, shelter, clean water, not dying from literally everything. Then there’s not being killed by the local humans whose land you have just invaded - you obviously don’t fit in and likely don’t speak the language
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I would definitely need to try some bits a few times. Less with the biology and more organic chemistry, which is the stuff that sometimes fucks up even when you do everything right.
And there are little gaps. Like i could walk you through decent-ish steel but I don’t know fuck-all about copper alloys, and might have to fuck around woth implementation a whole bunch on a few steps. It wouldn’t be personally fast, but it would be civilizationally fast.
tetris11@feddit.uk 10 months ago
wait what, that’s incredible. Dibs on you when it comes to picking time travel buddies.
I offer: handy with a screwdriver and knows how to make good scary voices when telling ghost stories around a campfire.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I will be burned as a witch within five minutes if im not burned for being such an insufferable bitch within as many seconds.
tetris11@feddit.uk 10 months ago
insufferable about what though?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Most things.