For the vast majority of human history we have just been throwing sticks and stones and just got better at it.
Throwing stones by hand, invent slings to throw stones faster and further, invent siege engines to throw bigger stones even farther.
Throwing sticks by hand, sharpening the sticks into thrown spears, invent the atlal to throw the spears further and with more power, make the sticks smaller and invent bow to shoot them with more speed and even further, invent siege engines to throw bigger sticks with more power.
Or just hang out with them all the time, mostly being nice, so they get used to not running away and we don’t have to find or chase them when we are hungry.
it is similar to how any kind of widely used power plant is basically just a steam machine. the difference is how we create the heat, but no matter if we burn coal or split atom there, it is still just a steam machine. if we some day finally manage to get fusion reactors to work, it will still be just a steam machine.
Some of the new fusion startups are looking into aneutronic fusion, in which most of the energy output is directly captured as electricity. They will be using steam-driven generators to take advantage of the waste heat but they will be a secondary component.
I’d argue we’re still just throwing (highly processed) rocks but much much faster using gunpowder to accelerate them through the tube of handheld devices
For the vast majority of human history we have just been throwing sticks and stones and just got better at it.
Throwing stones by hand, invent slings to throw stones faster and further, invent siege engines to throw bigger stones even farther.
Throwing sticks by hand, sharpening the sticks into thrown spears, invent the atlal to throw the spears further and with more power, make the sticks smaller and invent bow to shoot them with more speed and even further, invent siege engines to throw bigger sticks with more power.
RUN THE FUCKING ANIMALS OFF A CLIFF
Or just hang out with them all the time, mostly being nice, so they get used to not running away and we don’t have to find or chase them when we are hungry.
Guns? Actually just throwing rocks at high speed.
Nuclear bomb? Throwing a special, spicy rock.
It really is just rock chucking all the way down, projectile combat completely broke the meta
it is similar to how any kind of widely used power plant is basically just a steam machine. the difference is how we create the heat, but no matter if we burn coal or split atom there, it is still just a steam machine. if we some day finally manage to get fusion reactors to work, it will still be just a steam machine.
Yep, the antimatter annihilation reactor goes into the boiling water again!
Some of the new fusion startups are looking into aneutronic fusion, in which most of the energy output is directly captured as electricity. They will be using steam-driven generators to take advantage of the waste heat but they will be a secondary component.
Awesome!
MOTHER
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cool, i will check it out.
We need to figure out a way to boil water by throwing rocks.
Throw rock so hard it hits water with enough force to boil it. Like that old “how hard would I have to slap a chicken to instantly cook it?” thing
Very tiny, very hot rocks.
Rocks that spit bees out of their mouths
And then the theoretical peak of space combat, throwing big rocks at planets from orbit
Inyalowda deserved that shit, sasa?
Alternatively tungsten rods (rods from god) which is throwing sticks from space
Guns I’ll grant you, but
“Spicy” is doing a lot of work there lol.
I’d argue we’re still just throwing (highly processed) rocks but much much faster using gunpowder to accelerate them through the tube of handheld devices