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.
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.
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.
My favorite technology is bronze smelting.
What about you guys?
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.
But it isn’t. Culture and technology was transmitted into the future for millennia prior to writing was developed.
Personally I’m more of an irrigation fanboy. I just love an efficient way to get water to my crops.
The plow. The greatest of all inventions.
I personally feel the trebuchet is the pinnacle of engineering, which is the superior siege weapon.
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.
Pff, where’s my lever gang at?
Where my fulcrum bros at
They’re fighting the inclined plane gang
Screw them, they’re going downhill.
They’re attached via an inclined plane wrapped helical around an axis.
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.
Do you smelt bronze from bars or can you smelt directly from ores?
Huge fan of lead refinement.
Laden or unladen?
I’m a pretty big fan of food preservation. Ancient methods like smoking and pickling, to modern ones like freeze drying. Shout out Steve1989MREInfo!
Typewriters and fountain pens for me.