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You are discounting cave man with camp fire. Also nuclear _technology_ as of being controlled by humans is not as old.
by StreamBright 6y ago
You are discounting cave man with camp fire. Also nuclear _technology_ as of being controlled by humans is not as old.
- stallmanite 6y agoI’m pretty sure the parent is pointing out that the chemical combustion in eg a caveman’s campfire required many millions of years of stars performing nuclear fusion to create any elements with higher atomic numbers than 2, oxygen included.
- StreamBright 6y agoI agree. I am talking about technology as of what humans control. Humans do not control this -> "many millions of years of stars performing nuclear fusion to create any elements with higher atomic numbers than 2"
- makerofspoons 6y agoOh, I read it as a reference to natural fission reactors, like the one found at Oklo.