It's so easy how is everyone so stupid. I'd invent the train afterward and drive around everyone saying "you're so fucking stupid I'm not even good at this and I did it".
It's so easy how is everyone so stupid. I'd invent the train afterward and drive around everyone saying "you're so fucking stupid I'm not even good at this and I did it".
something people rarely aprisheate. There have been super-intelligent people in every generation of humanity since the dawn of time. the reason we didn't invent things sooner?
Tool precision and material science can't simply be thought up or replicated from scratch.
the tool precision and metallurgy needed to make manufacturing paper and ink at scale (which finally enabled the vast proliferation of the knowledge that enabled the industrial age.) had to be iteratively achieved as we slowly built up the ability to get things hotter, get better ore from deeper in the earth, and built things with tighter and tighter tolerances. even with modern-day skill mastery and knowledge, it would take a lifetime to get from scratch to something even close to tool-grade steel.
I could literally invent the metric system in my head right now. It's ten smaller. There you go ancient world I did that one for free.
So, I feel like perhaps this is a bit but...
that's not how this works. invent an accurate set of gauge blocks, a micromitor, or even a "simple" weight scale and we'll talk.
That would take me a week tops if it doesn't require maths. It took humanity how long?
no, it would likely take you a lifetime of iteration. It doesn't matter if you know the maths to calculate what you need unless you can reliably build and measure things intricate itmes are nigh impossible.
I wouldn't even need those things unless I wanted to invent rockets or something. Those are crutches used by guys who didn't get it until centuries after I would have.
Ok, definitely a bit. sorry for getting serious with you.
And it's a good bit.