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_sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• brisk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when lightning strikes sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda

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  • tektite@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    When lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.

    Tektites are meteorites that are formed when meteorites strike.

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    • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I am sorry for insulting your people

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      • tektite@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Right. Now don’t do it again!

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  • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Oh look there’s a whole Wikipedia page on it

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass

    Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working

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  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.

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  • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.

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  • _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ha, nice reference

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It’s like minecraft.

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• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  If you spent your days cooking with fire, and your nights watching it and warming yourself, you’d definitely start tossing anything you could find into it just to see what would happen. People did this every day and night for eons.

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I think people just experimented a lot. Try enough random things, you’re bound to come across cool chemistry every once in a while. If they figured out how to make really hot fire, that opens the path to “let’s try making various things really hot to see what happens”.

  Of, I know basically nothing about [pre]history or human development so I could be way off

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