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  • wanderingmagus@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzCFCs
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    9 months ago

    Pretty sure no human lived at the Trinity test site or anywhere else in the test sites where weapons were detonated, especially at the moment of detonation. And I’m pretty sure none have since moved onto those sites either. Hence “inhabited”. It’s not like we nuked cities and towns.




  • wanderingmagus@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPhysics
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    9 months ago

    But that’s never how magic is depicted - it always takes decades of knowledge and learning or powerful enchanted artifacts forged from rare minerals and materials, and rituals which always name a price.

    Modern magic can do all those things - if you have the right artifacts, likewise made of precious metals forged by lightning and etched with beams of sunfire and inlaid with gemstones from beyond the sea, fuelled by the ichor alchemically distilled from the remnants of ancient forests and carefully assembled by entire courts of white-robed magi who have each spent decades perfecting their deep knowledge of ritual and arcane lore.

    With these artifacts, I can incinerate an entire room with a twitch of my finger upon a staff of fire summoning, read minds with a helm of probing, lightning people with a tiny wand of stunning, and conjure familiar from across the world to do my bidding on my black mirror for the small sacrifice of tiny particles of lightning in a distant runestone.







  • The Foxfire magazines are available online to print out and contain all the tutorials for making all the pieces of 1800s and early 1900s tools from scratch, such as hand powered lathes, backyard forges, and so on. There’s also How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, which teaches everything from philosophy and science to medicine and economics. Practically any super hard-core prepper and survivalist guide will help you too. Depending on the flavor of society you’re trying to go for, a copy of your ideal society’s manifesto - whether Wealth of Nations or Communist Manifesto - would go a long way to crystallizing theory into practice.