Who discovered/"invented" fire?

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• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It was discovered in pre-history, and almost certainly independently by many, many individuals. You aren’t going to get a name on it.

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Counterpoint: I heard it was Richard

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    • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That prick!

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It was the Roman ruler, Biggus Dickus.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How do you think the first manmade ignition happened?

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    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My guess would be someone trying to make stone tools by banging rocks together, a spark fell into dry grass, etc. But, you know, just a guess.

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    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      2 rocks by accident

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dont say Prometheus

  Ok—it was Προμηθεύς.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks for your compliance

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Prometheus

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• Zonetrooper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We don’t know. Hell, we can’t even narrow it down to a specific place with certainty. There is strong evidence in human settlements for use of fire anywhere from a few hundred thousand to 1 million years ago. When, exactly, is hard to ascertain; for instance, some sites which are claimed to hold the oldest evidence have been criticized as resembling the aftermath of wildfires.

  It is also depends on what you mean by “discovered”: Early proto-hominids were almost certainly aware of fire and the concept of burning, so are we counting from when they realized “hey, I can take a burning thing and put it where I want it, and it will spread burning there?” Or are we only counting from when fire began to be used as a tool (e.g., for clearing brush or cooking)? Or when humans discovered how to start fires in the absence of a natural source?

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That last question is the most interesting to me. I guess it doesn’t take much intuition to realize that rubbing things together makes them hot. Rub your arm really fast.

    Still, watching experienced woodsmen starting a fire from scratch is an education. Even the best struggle.

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    • Zonetrooper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It really is an interesting question, yes! Fires started by frictional heating are pretty uncommon in nature, but early humans could pretty readily see that objects placed near a fire would begin to smolder and burn just from radiant heat.

      It really depends on when we were able to take intellectual leap of realizing that all heat is equivalent, and fire is not a prerequisite of making new fire.

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• sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not Billy Joel.

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• T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Prometheus

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• Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That information is lost to pre-history, but probably either Ug or Urg. Those guys were like the Wright Brothers of cave shit.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My ancestors.

  Your ancestors too.

  We have the same ancestors.

  We’re all really just family you know…

  wait… isn’t everyone just technically a cousin fucker? 🤔

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Prometheus’s dog

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, where do you thing Bob got it from?

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably a titan. Who created the universe in Greek myth? Fire is a fundamental force of nature. Like gravity. So it either wasn’t “invented” or was invented by the universe’s creator if one exists.

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• Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t it be Hestia because Prometheus stole it from her?

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Various individuals no doubt figured it out independently and then others in their tribe learned it from them. At first people probably took burning material from forest fires and brush fires that had been caused by lightning.

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• Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It was Zogg

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The famous villain John Fireman. He was eventually killed by firefighters.

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• joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I did.

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Someone flammable, I bet.

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• tartarin@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fire wasn’t discovered or invented, it was mastered.

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• Birch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Either Arthur Brown or H.P. Baxxter

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• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Some monkey

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• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wang Fire. Just don’t ask where he got it from, Hotman.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mowgli invented it.
  King Louie discovered it.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My mix tape

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thas fyre not fire

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• jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Les Oulhamr fuyaient dans la nuit épouvantable. Fous de souffrance et de fatigue, tout leur semblait vain devant la calamité suprême: le Feu était mort.

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• tartarin@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Paul Burner

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