we love those power laws

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• kakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And yet we still haven’t figured out nuclear swords smh.

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Best I can do is a mace. Image

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    • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damn, every time I think I’m original or clever today, someone beats me to it.

      I was just thinking of “demon core on a warhammer/shield/trebuchet (not a catapult because that’s for plebs)”

      Small point of pedantry, that is a flail, not a mace. A mace is mounted directly onto a handle, flails have the flexible material between the weight and the handle.

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  • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have hope! The swords were actually invented in 20k years!

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tell that to my uranium sword.

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That would be a Jedi lightsaber. I can’t remember which YT channel calculated the amount of energy in those little bastards but I think it was about a small nuclear recator

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love the idea of jumping straight from swords to nukes. Writing prompt: a 16th century blacksmith suddenly realizes, “If I surround an unstable rock with a neutron reflecting earth metal, I can trigger a runaway chain reaction that’ll get that stump out a me yard.”

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  • Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What always blows my mind to think about is how the materials for our advanced technology were here the whole time. We could have had computers and nuclear energy and spacecraft 20,000 years ago if we’d just had the knowledge.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the real reason I follow the Primitive Technology channel. One of these days he’s going to make an arc welder out of mud and bugs.

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    • k110111@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not quite, in order to have a technology you need methods, materials and society needs to be ready for the tech.

      I recently learned that 50 years ago someone filed a patent for solar panels with more than 20% efficiency and the us government was like yeah its too revolutionary so you can’t sell this nor tell anyone about this unless it is US military. Imagine we all could have had >20% solar panels 50 years ago, even today we are only marginally above 20% efficiency.

      Another example, would be the company who made the iPhone like device well before iPhone but the market wasn’t ready.

      Another example that is fucked up. Governments are starting to restrict AI for consumers but also using AI to kill children in Gaza.

      I’m pretty sure a lot early doctors were also burned at stakes because they were called witches or smth.

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    • Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, we need the infrastructure to use them as well, it wasnt just knowledge that was blocking us, each piece of new tech usually needs at least some of the previous to be possible to use

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  • Event_Horizon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I imagine it would would go something like this

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was confused for a bit while wat hung the video so I watched all of it until the end. I only ended up more confused as time went on. What’s even worse is there’s no indication of what it’s from.

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    • DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What the fuck is this from lol

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s probably a narrow demographic that immediately recognizes Yahoo Serious, isn’t it? Especially in the northern hemisphere.

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• essell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Silly meme. Nuclear bombs are much too heavy to wield on the battlefield, and their shape is unsuitable for piercing platemail armour

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If only I had some sort of mechanical machine that would lob this 300 kg nuclear bomb 90 m away at my enemy. One day science will catch up to man’s dreams, one day…

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    • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nuke hurling trebuchets are an underexplored fantasy tech.

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    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be safe, make it a 90kg nuclear bomb 300m away!

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nuclear artillery shells are an actual thing, though.

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    However, depleted uranium tipped arrows sound very cool.

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  • puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They just have to make small adjustments

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    Also gamma radiation is good at “piercing” platemail armour.

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  • K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Until they make the Fat Man

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The real life version of that: …wikipedia.org/…/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

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  • Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about uranium armour tho?

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• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the stone age was loooong

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  • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The copper age only lasted about 1000 years. Then came the bronze age. But the iron has been going on for longer than the bronze age and copper age combined.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suspect a large part of it was the collapse of civilization, at least, in that corner of the world.

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    • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “we’re in a late stage bronzist society, it’ll collapse any day now!”

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    • Sizzler@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What do you mean there was a mythical sea people?! Lol rabbit hole.

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  • Keanu@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe bronze and iron weapons are equally powerful, but bronze is a mixture of copper and tin (requiring two types of input). Iron is more plentiful than tin, so militaries do not need large supplies of tin if they can manipulate iron. Steel, I believe, needs much higher temperatures and purified inputs.

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      While iron is more plentiful than tin, it is harder to purify than tin or copper. The ‘iron age’ refers to the time when humans started smelting iron, and making tools using various steels and other iron-based alloys. These are generally much stronger than bronze.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nope. Not at all. Steel weapons are superior to bronze in every way.

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    • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Iron, like actual iron, is weaker than bronze. IIRC, tensile strength is copper<iron<bronze<steel, by roughly x2.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Surely we are in a steel age and not an iron age

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    • Sizzler@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      End of silicon age and the start of the quantum age.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Technically it was never the iron age but the steel age.

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just posted something about ‘classified ads’ in newspapers and someone asked what classified ads are.

  A 30 year old posted that he now felt old after reading that question.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had some 50 year old bartender try to be condescending with me saying i probably didn’t know how to use a dial phone. Showed her up by explaining my aunt used to have a Princess phone and had to explain that one to her

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    • Jilanico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just realized “dialing a number” comes from turning a dial.

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    • Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dial phones are the WEIRDEST thing to feel superior over. As a gimmick they’re fun, as something to be used, they’re annoying as fuck. Imagine dialing a 9 digit number with those things… (Also imagine calling someone in this day and age without a gun pointing to your head)

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s where we put classified information because the kids won’t read news papers!

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wtf is a pennysaver

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  • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really showing your age, there, Dagwood.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those, uh, those are advertisements for classified materials, yes?

    What kind of newspapers are you reading?

    (/jk. I’m old enough to have read the comic section)

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s a newspaper?

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What is love?

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• exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d rather have a copper spear than a steel sword. Swords are small and weak. Spears are long and powerful.

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  • Aquilae@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d rather have a nuclear spear tbh

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    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nuclear spear.

      Pro: Kills all of your enemies.

      Con: Also kills you and everyone you know.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder if there’s research out there into the hottest temperature humanity can reach throughout history? So many things that advance technology depend on getting even hotter. With a simple wood fire, you can cook food to make it safer to eat and get more nutrients out of it. With a better design and fuel to get hotter, you can work copper, or glass, or steel. Hotter still and you can fuse atoms.

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• Prethoryn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Preps sophon on another planet

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So dividing by four again will surely give us the timetable for how soon we can expect a planet buster to be developed to harvest Mercury’s raw material to build a Dyson fleet

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• cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there even evidence of copper swords existing? The whole Copper Age is really just in our “history” because it has to be. The archeological evidence is pretty scant. It’s possible people used lead (even easier to melt and shape, and there is evidence of very early use of lead) more than copper before the Bronze Age.

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  • Bashnagdul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kopeshes are pretty well established. Which were copper swords.

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• cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there a statistic for estimated energy consumption per capital against time available?

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  • acetanilide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I found this 🤔

    people.wou.edu/…/HistoricalPerspectives.htm

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  • bartolomeo@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you measure time available?

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• affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  what were they doing for all that time

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    dying of dysentery

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  • lath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Playing Copper and Bronzers.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’ll say the same thing about us. We could start building a utopia right now.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Utopia relies on greed not existing

      Technology relies on information being passed down

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• dislocate_expansion@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ::The open air panopticon prison enters the chat::

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• Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The gamer switched from the “Aeon” mod to “quick game” pace

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• valid@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  konakona.moe

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGczJFJQaN8

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