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update: he told me he thinks eating ass is disgusting. This person is irredeemable

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

That kind of stuff is fascinating. People all over the world invented, forgot, reinvented, etc technology all the time at completely different times in history.

Humans can be smart af.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

My favorite version of this is looking at how many different solutions different cultures came up with for "ship"

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

That's a great example! I like looking at the different challenges cultures had when they created the same type of tech.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I'm always fascinated by the Chinese Junckers, they're so foreign to me

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

First I've heard of them. Pretty interesting.
Check this out:

The earliest sails were not made from canvas but from woven grass, which had to be dipped in tannins in order to be toughened up. This resulted in a reddish-brown hue, which was carried on when canvas masts were invented. The bright crimson masts seen in Hong Kong’s harbor today still bear this historical hallmark.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Wow that's really neat! And I had been wondering about the propensity for red over there

My brain can only go "well, the ancient human manager probably didn't appreciate the worker invented iron metallurgy, fired them, and set civilization back 400 years" and gets frustrated

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