• isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 hours ago

    as someone who has tried to make a furnace to melt metals, I envy iron age people who could do it successfully (unlike me) with no fancy tools or materials

    • skulblaka
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      15 hours ago

      You should try having nothing else better to distract you for 12-15 years. With no books, no TV, and no internet, if you need to figure out how to build a forge, you’d figure it out eventually. Through sheer boredom if nothing else.

  • humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    For the last one, another alternative would be “You’re so resilient, it would take a moon sized meteorite to take you down for good.”

  • ArbitraryValue
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    1 day ago

    66 million

    Am I so old? It was 65 million back when I was a kid.