And yet we still haven't figured out nuclear swords smh.
Give it about 38k years
Have hope! The swords were actually invented in 20k years!
Tell that to my uranium sword.
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
Silly meme. Nuclear bombs are much too heavy to wield on the battlefield, and their shape is unsuitable for piercing platemail armour
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...
Nuke hurling trebuchets are an underexplored fantasy tech.
To be safe, make it a 90kg nuclear bomb 300m away!
Nuclear artillery shells are an actual thing, though.
However, depleted uranium tipped arrows sound very cool.
They just have to make small adjustments
Also gamma radiation is good at "piercing" platemail armour.
Until they make the Fat Man
The real life version of that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
What about uranium armour tho?
I know this isn't the comparison being made, but 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 outta me yard."
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.
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.
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
And the stone age was loooong
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.
I suspect a large part of it was the collapse of civilization, at least, in that corner of the world.
Surely we are in a steel age and not an iron age
End of silicon age and the start of the quantum age.
Technically it was never the iron age but the steel age.
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.
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
I just realized "dialing a number" comes from turning a dial.
wtf is a pennysaver
Really showing your age, there, Dagwood.
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)
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.
Preps sophon on another planet
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
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.
Kopeshes are pretty well established. Which were copper swords.
what were they doing for all that time
dying of dysentery
Playing Copper and Bronzers.
They'll say the same thing about us. We could start building a utopia right now.
Utopia relies on greed not existing
Technology relies on information being passed down
Is there a statistic for estimated energy consumption per capital against time available?
How do you measure time available?
The gamer switched from the "Aeon" mod to "quick game" pace
::black mirror episodes becoming reality enter the chat::
