It’s like minecraft.
Comment on ⌛⌛
_sideffect@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wonder how they figured that out
Did molten lava touch sand and then they were like 😳
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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
brisk@aussie.zone 7 months 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
tektite@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
When lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.
Tektites are meteorites that are formed when meteorites strike.
brisk@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I am sorry for insulting your people
tektite@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Right. Now don’t do it again!
brisk@aussie.zone 7 months 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
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.
Hule@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ha, nice reference