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Judging from the video, it looks pretty "from scratch" to me. What makes it a "bit of a stretch" to you?

by MrGilbert 1y ago

jadamson 1y ago
He didn't first create the universe.
- ant6n 1y ago
  "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent... the universe" Carl Sagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM
  - bitwize 1y ago
    Related: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
    - ant6n 1y ago
      Yes. Was gonna post that at first ;-)
isoprophlex 1y ago
> not making your own plastic monomers from syngas why even bother
__d 1y ago
Start with naturally occurring things only. Mine and refine iron ore to make hub. Mine and refine zinc(?) to plate it. Drill for and refine oil to make PET for disk and casing. Injection mold casing. Make film for actual disc. Etc, etc. I’d be ok using tools that weren’t made from scratch as well, but that’d be bonus ooints.
smokel 1y ago
He uses quite a bit of tooling, including lasers. It's not like he would be able to get this far in the middle of nowhere :) In a way it is somewhat similar to people writing demos for old computers using emulators. Still great fun, but using these tools it doesn't take a village to make one floppy disk. With modern hardware you are apparently able to pull this off on your own. That would have been almost impossible in the 1980s, when these floppy disks were popular. I probably worded it badly, but I really enjoy these efforts, and I would never be able to do this myself, even if I had a shed with all those tools!
- cluckindan 1y ago
  Are you even a musician if you don’t have a goat farm? How can someone call themselves a programmer when they don’t even mine for silicon!
  - debesyla 1y ago
    I couldn't find an answer on google - how is a goat farm precursor for music? It's an activity that needs herding and shepherds started playing songs for fun? Or..? :o
    - et-al 1y ago
      Stringed instruments use goat or sheep intestines. And drums are from their skin (leather).
    - orthoxerox 1y ago
      It's an old story about using a drum machine and feeling like it's not real music, replacing the synthesized samples with real drum samples, then getting rid of the machine playing the drums yourself, then making your own drums, then finally farming your own goats for leather to make drumheads out of.
  - the_other_mac 1y ago
    For anyone that hasn't seen it yet, there's the YouTube channel "Primitive Technology", where a guy does this literally - in a jungle, with no tools apart from what he makes himself. He gets as far as smelting a tiny amount of iron.

Judging from the video, it looks pretty "from scratch" to me. What makes it a "bit of a stretch" to you?

jadamson 1y ago

He didn't first create the universe.

ant6n 1y ago
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent... the universe" Carl Sagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM
- bitwize 1y ago
  Related: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
  - ant6n 1y ago
    Yes. Was gonna post that at first ;-)

isoprophlex 1y ago

> not making your own plastic monomers from syngas why even bother

__d 1y ago

Start with naturally occurring things only. Mine and refine iron ore to make hub. Mine and refine zinc(?) to plate it. Drill for and refine oil to make PET for disk and casing. Injection mold casing. Make film for actual disc. Etc, etc. I’d be ok using tools that weren’t made from scratch as well, but that’d be bonus ooints.

smokel 1y ago

He uses quite a bit of tooling, including lasers. It's not like he would be able to get this far in the middle of nowhere :) In a way it is somewhat similar to people writing demos for old computers using emulators. Still great fun, but using these tools it doesn't take a village to make one floppy disk. With modern hardware you are apparently able to pull this off on your own. That would have been almost impossible in the 1980s, when these floppy disks were popular. I probably worded it badly, but I really enjoy these efforts, and I would never be able to do this myself, even if I had a shed with all those tools!

cluckindan 1y ago
Are you even a musician if you don’t have a goat farm? How can someone call themselves a programmer when they don’t even mine for silicon!
- debesyla 1y ago
  I couldn't find an answer on google - how is a goat farm precursor for music? It's an activity that needs herding and shepherds started playing songs for fun? Or..? :o
  - et-al 1y ago
    Stringed instruments use goat or sheep intestines. And drums are from their skin (leather).
  - orthoxerox 1y ago
    It's an old story about using a drum machine and feeling like it's not real music, replacing the synthesized samples with real drum samples, then getting rid of the machine playing the drums yourself, then making your own drums, then finally farming your own goats for leather to make drumheads out of.
- the_other_mac 1y ago
  For anyone that hasn't seen it yet, there's the YouTube channel "Primitive Technology", where a guy does this literally - in a jungle, with no tools apart from what he makes himself. He gets as far as smelting a tiny amount of iron.