Have you actually smelted and alloyed useable steel from ores before?
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outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I have very few practical skills in the modern day.
But if you need to set up a society from scratch, I can get you electricity, steel, solid agriculture, and a handful of life saving medications depending on climate.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Not from ores, and not on my own, but if I spent a minute I could remember how to go from ‘chopped dowm this tree with a rock’ to that.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I think the fault in this “in theory I know this” is that there’s a shitload of small issues that pile up when you try to do things in practise that need that accumulated (practical) knowledge to overcome.
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Like trying to find food, shelter, clean water, not dying from literally everything. Then there’s not being killed by the local humans whose land you have just invaded - you obviously don’t fit in and likely don’t speak the language
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I would definitely need to try some bits a few times. Less with the biology and more organic chemistry, which is the stuff that sometimes fucks up even when you do everything right.
And there are little gaps. Like i could walk you through decent-ish steel but I don’t know fuck-all about copper alloys, and might have to fuck around woth implementation a whole bunch on a few steps. It wouldn’t be personally fast, but it would be civilizationally fast.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
wait what, that’s incredible. Dibs on you when it comes to picking time travel buddies.
I offer: handy with a screwdriver and knows how to make good scary voices when telling ghost stories around a campfire.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I will be burned as a witch within five minutes if im not burned for being such an insufferable bitch within as many seconds.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
insufferable about what though?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Most things.