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And yet we still haven’t figured out nuclear swords smh.
Best I can do is a flail.
Damn, every time I think I’m original or clever today, someone beats me to it.
I was just thinking of “demon core on a warhammer/shield/trebuchet (not a catapult because that’s for plebs)”
Small point of pedantry, that is a flail, not a mace. A mace is mounted directly onto a handle, flails have the flexible material between the weight and the handle.
I just happened to have the exact best response possible pic saved recently enough that I could find it in my phone. 🤣 This makes my whole day!
Fixed it for you.
Demon core memes are my favorite thing from NCD and literally nobody else in my life even knows what it is, let alone think they’re funny.
It’s the same with Ea-Nasir memes.
You’re not alone, you’re together through time with so many others past and future. None of us are going to put up with repeatedly subpar copper ever again.
Is there a lemmy community about it?
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That would be a Jedi lightsaber. I can’t remember which YT channel calculated the amount of energy in those little bastards but I think it was about a small nuclear recator
Silly meme. Nuclear bombs are much too heavy to wield on the battlefield, and their shape is unsuitable for piercing platemail armour
Until they make the Fat Man
What about uranium armour tho?
And the stone age was loooong
The copper age only lasted about 1000 years. Then came the bronze age. But the iron has been going on for longer than the bronze age and copper age combined.
I suspect a large part of it was the collapse of civilization, at least, in that corner of the world.
“we’re in a late stage bronzist society, it’ll collapse any day now!”
so, caught an article on NPR where they were interviewing an archeologist who specialized in the Sea Peoples (and the bronze age collapse). In any case, there were some points he made that stuck with me. The most pointed being that, the collapse during the bronze age (for those that lived in it,) wouldn’t have known it was happening.
It was slow, happened across generations. while the climate change and other factors was inexorably moving to collapse… the changes weren’t fast enough for people to notice, it was just the way things were their entire life.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call “foreshadowing”.
I believe bronze and iron weapons are equally powerful, but bronze is a mixture of copper and tin (requiring two types of input). Iron is more plentiful than tin, so militaries do not need large supplies of tin if they can manipulate iron. Steel, I believe, needs much higher temperatures and purified inputs.
While iron is more plentiful than tin, it is harder to purify than tin or copper. The ‘iron age’ refers to the time when humans started smelting iron, and making tools using various steels and other iron-based alloys. These are generally much stronger than bronze.
Iron, like actual iron, is weaker than bronze. IIRC, tensile strength is copper<iron<bronze<steel, by roughly x2.
Nope. Not at all. Steel weapons are superior to bronze in every way.
The comparison was iron and bronze. Not steel and bronze.
There was never a time when iron was used in a major way until they figured out how to make steel. So technically it was always the steel age, not the iron age.
Bronze is better at making musical instruments, and who doesn’t need a trumpet or a tuba nowadays?
I just posted something about ‘classified ads’ in newspapers and someone asked what classified ads are.
A 30 year old posted that he now felt old after reading that question.
It’s where we put classified information because the kids won’t read news papers!
Those, uh, those are advertisements for classified materials, yes?
What kind of newspapers are you reading?
(/jk. I’m old enough to have read the comic section)
wtf is a pennysaver
Really showing your age, there, Dagwood.
What’s a newspaper?
What is love?
So dividing by four again will surely give us the timetable for how soon we can expect a planet buster to be developed to harvest Mercury’s raw material to build a Dyson fleet
I’d rather have a copper spear than a steel sword. Swords are small and weak. Spears are long and powerful.
Is there a statistic for estimated energy consumption per capital against time available?
what were they doing for all that time
dying of dysentery
Playing Copper and Bronzers.
They’ll say the same thing about us. We could start building a utopia right now.
Preps sophon on another planet
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