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[–] pozbo 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)

My favorite technology is bronze smelting.

What about you guys?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] markr -1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Personally I'm more of an irrigation fanboy. I just love an efficient way to get water to my crops.

[–] elephantium 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The plow. The greatest of all inventions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally feel the trebuchet is the pinnacle of engineering, which is the superior siege weapon.

[–] elephantium 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, but how did the designer of the first trebuchet have time to perfect their design? Someone else grew extra food for them. How did the farmer produce this surplus bounty? By using the plow!

But you're right, the trebuchet is indeed the superior siege weapon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pff, where's my lever gang at?

[–] Shardikprime 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pozbo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're fighting the inclined plane gang

[–] elephantium 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Screw them, they're going downhill.

[–] pozbo 1 points 1 year ago

They're attached via an inclined plane wrapped helical around an axis.

[–] tabular 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you smelt bronze from bars or can you smelt directly from ores?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Shardikprime 2 points 1 year ago

Laden or unladen?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Typewriters and fountain pens for me.