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I think the lack of thrown weapons would be more basic than fire. Maybe even held weapons for striking enemies. You can't swing a club underwater due to water
by jlawson 8y ago
I think the lack of thrown weapons would be more basic than fire.
Maybe even held weapons for striking enemies. You can't swing a club underwater due to water resistance, and spears are hard to use well because you don't have feet planted to transmit the force, so you just go backwards if you try to stab something. Not to mention the lack of trees and branches with straight poles.
Meanwhile stone tools and weapons are too heavy to carry. You'll sink.
In fact every tool would either sink or float, and incur huge drag. Which makes tool use much harder overall.
- insulanus 8y agoYou could fire projectiles, like a blow gun. A poison-tipped dart could be made to work underwater.
- jlawson 8y agoDart will stop within a few centimeters due to water resistance (unless it is very long and dense, like a metal harpoon, but you can't make such a thing). Poison will dissolve and drift away within moments of applying to a projectile. Nothing to make the tube out of. You don't have lungs (water respiration doesn't work this way in any creature I know of), so you can't "blow" anything.
- pandaman 8y ago>You don't have lungs (water respiration doesn't work this way in any creature I know of), so you can't "blow" anything. You might have heard about mantle, an organ that distinguishes mollusks. Many of them use it to circulate water around the gills and some are so good with it that they can create a water jet and shoot it with such a force that they swim in the opposite direction.
- hyperpallium 8y agospearguns work