PugJesus@lemmy.world to The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTechnology is getting out of controllemmy.worldimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1660arrow-down110
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minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·2 months agoI thought it was spears. Guess it could be rocks. I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away and I think it broke his brain to see something coming at him like that.
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·2 months agoYou have to start somewhere. And that somewhere certainly wasn’t multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months ago multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers. I looked at the post, and for a while the only part I saw was “Amplifiers”
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-22 months agoMaybe a few more words will make the concept clearer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoNeat. My comment was more about “electric guitar word found! Disregard the rest of the sentence.”
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 months agoI’m not talking about the start of throwing, I’m talking about the start of evolutionary dominance.
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoRocks make pointy stick, but pointy rock on stick even better for throwing!
minus-squarehungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoWhat are these ‘spears’ you talk about? All this modern nonsense.
minus-squareGreenAppleTree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoEhh, it’s just a fad. The long-stick bubble is gonna burst soon. Just you watch.
minus-squareZorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoPfft, Imagine needing anything more than your bare hands and the ability to perspire. Endurance predator FTW!
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months ago I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away Don’t do that to a corvid. They remember human faces and they let their big families know about it too. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoGood they learned to stop pecking at my siding.
I thought it was spears. Guess it could be rocks. I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away and I think it broke his brain to see something coming at him like that.
You have to start somewhere. And that somewhere certainly wasn’t multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers.
I looked at the post, and for a while the only part I saw was “Amplifiers”
Maybe a few more words will make the concept clearer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
Neat.
My comment was more about “electric guitar word found! Disregard the rest of the sentence.”
Catapults are cool
I’m not talking about the start of throwing, I’m talking about the start of evolutionary dominance.
Rocks make pointy stick, but pointy rock on stick even better for throwing!
What are these ‘spears’ you talk about? All this modern nonsense.
Ehh, it’s just a fad. The long-stick bubble is gonna burst soon. Just you watch.
Pfft, Imagine needing anything more than your bare hands and the ability to perspire.
Endurance predator FTW!
Don’t do that to a corvid. They remember human faces and they let their big families know about it too.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends
Good they learned to stop pecking at my siding.