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Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

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Re: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

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It reminds me of a Marcin Jakubowski talk at Ted about "Open-Source blueprints for civilizations"[1] From TED: Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (st…

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Re: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

#22
post #9

It's reasons like this, that I really wonder if someone from today were to time travel into the past if anything they know would be useful at all. Medieval people would probably think we're all idiots.

Read Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I think someone educated in science and engineering would do quite well, a dolt fully addicted to the entertainment industry, probably not so well.

Re: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

#23

It reminds me of a Marcin Jakubowski talk at Ted about "Open-Source blueprints for civilizations"[1] From TED: Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (st…

I was thinking of the Global Villege construction set too, they've come a long way (good summary vid) http://vimeo.com/16106427

Re: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

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post #9

It's reasons like this, that I really wonder if someone from today were to time travel into the past if anything they know would be useful at all. Medieval people would probably think we're all idiots.

You'd be at a disadvantage whether you traveled back or forward in time, because you haven't yet internalized the world model of the destination time. Anyone who lives in a particular time takes for granted the ways to operate in that time, and doesn't have to think a) how do I do this, or b) is this even possible. They just do, or move on.

Re: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

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It reminds me of a Marcin Jakubowski talk at Ted about "Open-Source blueprints for civilizations"[1] From TED: Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (st…

The project's site is http://openfarmtech.org . I don't think they have their full 50 machines, but what they do have looks pretty interesting.

Re: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

#27

Well at least he didn't have to invent the universe.

Man and God are having a pleasant discussion about the great advances Man has made in science.

God reminisces about how far Man has come since He first made Man from dirt.

Man gets a little boastful and says "Oh we can do that. Life from dirt? That's easy."

God smiles and says "Oh? I'd like to see it please."

Man says "No problem," and bends down to scoop up a handful of dirt.

God says "No no no, you go get your own dirt."

Re: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

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post #6

"Charcoal has to be chopped to a specific size for the operation to run smoothly. I chopped mine during the days before the run in little chunks about a cubic inch or less." Chopped using what?

An axe made of wood?

That is what I do in Minecraft, at least.

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