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You are born 250,000 years ago, one of the very first modern humans to roam the earth. What's on your to-do list? (lemmy.world)

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Having access to the raw materials is the hard part, depending on where you are. If the place your or any other tribes migrates around lacks the raw rocks, you're shit outta luck.

Copper and tin are relatively easy to work, as you can melt the metal into an earthen or sand mold. A furnace that can melt it isn't too hard to create. From that to a steam engine isn't that big of a jump, the Greeks figured that out but never thought about making it do labor.

Another hurdle is surviving long enough, as you wouldn't have access to sanitation or medicine.

[–] Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago

Dude saying just melting some ore is enought and then you basicly have a steam engine is so wild. Do you have any experience in metal working? How would you create the round parts like the piston and the bore? What about valves? The greek steam enigne woold have not created significant power for anything usefull. I would bet that most of you in this thread would not be able to build a steam engine from metal if you had acess to a home depot.