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It's not that difficult. Hell, you can literally rub sticks together, even without a bow. There's plenty of vids on YouTube showing it.

thdrdt 7y ago
Painting portraits is not that difficult. Hell, you can literally smear paint on a canvas, even without brush. There's plenty of vids on YouTube showing it.
- Mikeb85 7y ago
  For real though, we made fire by hitting rocks together and rubbing sticks together in elementary school. It's not that hard.
  - animal531 7y ago
    Making a wheel isn't hard. You cut a tree and core it, add an axle and cap times two and you have a cart. Tame a horse, and you have transportation. People saying its easy isn't taking into consideration that this is knowledge that took a really long time to figure out and effectively pass on. Knowing that rubbing two of the right sticks together for long enough will produce friction that can lead to enough heat for a fire isn't something that a person with no knowledge easily comes up with by themselves.
    - Mikeb85 7y ago
      No but I'm going to say that archaic humans, once they acquired that knowledge, probably passed it on religiously. It's literally the single most important discovery in the history of mankind.
  - lolc 7y ago
    Do you know which rocks you used and where to find them?
P_I_Staker 7y ago
No, you can't, actually. Go grab two sticks, rub them together, and see if you can get a coal. Chances are this exercise is a total failure. You need specific materials for this method to be effective. At least that's what I was taught. You have to use the correct types of wood, which might vary by region (obviously, dry kindling is needed too). I'm not trying to nitpick here, it's just something that's worth pointing out. This was news to me when I found out, and relevant information if you were the end up in a "state of nature"

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It's not that difficult. Hell, you can literally rub sticks together, even without a bow. There's plenty of vids on YouTube showing it.

by Mikeb85 7y ago

thdrdt 7y ago
Painting portraits is not that difficult. Hell, you can literally smear paint on a canvas, even without brush. There's plenty of vids on YouTube showing it.
- Mikeb85 7y ago
  For real though, we made fire by hitting rocks together and rubbing sticks together in elementary school. It's not that hard.
  - animal531 7y ago
    Making a wheel isn't hard. You cut a tree and core it, add an axle and cap times two and you have a cart. Tame a horse, and you have transportation. People saying its easy isn't taking into consideration that this is knowledge that took a really long time to figure out and effectively pass on. Knowing that rubbing two of the right sticks together for long enough will produce friction that can lead to enough heat for a fire isn't something that a person with no knowledge easily comes up with by themselves.
    - Mikeb85 7y ago
      No but I'm going to say that archaic humans, once they acquired that knowledge, probably passed it on religiously. It's literally the single most important discovery in the history of mankind.
  - lolc 7y ago
    Do you know which rocks you used and where to find them?
P_I_Staker 7y ago
No, you can't, actually. Go grab two sticks, rub them together, and see if you can get a coal. Chances are this exercise is a total failure. You need specific materials for this method to be effective. At least that's what I was taught. You have to use the correct types of wood, which might vary by region (obviously, dry kindling is needed too). I'm not trying to nitpick here, it's just something that's worth pointing out. This was news to me when I found out, and relevant information if you were the end up in a "state of nature"