• dtc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My favorite technology is bronze smelting.

    What about you guys?

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      My favorite is any system for writing. That’s when we started sending actual information into the future. An argument could be made for art on cave walls, and that does communicate with future humans, but the meaning is interpreted rather than dictated.

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        1 year ago

        But it isn’t. Culture and technology was transmitted into the future for millennia prior to writing was developed.

    • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I like cement. Roman cement with quicklime. Shit cracks on the limestone flakes which erode and re-calcify within all the micro-fractures. Fuckin Romans were mad smart.

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      1 year ago

      Do you smelt bronze from bars or can you smelt directy from some ores of copper and tin?

    • blackluster117@possumpat.io
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      1 year ago

      I’m a pretty big fan of food preservation. Ancient methods like smoking and pickling, to modern ones like freeze drying. Shout out Steve1989MREInfo!