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To put it into perspective, we did not invent fire.
by wil421 8mo ago
To put it into perspective, we did not invent fire.
- Sharlin 8mo agoWell, nobody did, because fire was likely used for tens or hundreds of thousands of years before anyone figured out how to make fire on demand.
- taejavu 8mo agoWhich is what the comment you’re replying to means by “invent”.
- dredmorbius 8mo agoUse of fire considerably pre-dates H. sapiens, with anthropological evidence dating to 1.7 -- 2 million years ago. Sapiens diverged from common ancestors about 600,000 years ago. "We" (Homo sapiens) did not invent fire. Our predecessor species were already using it. Firestarting is harder to pin down and may be within the scope of homo evolution. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_human...> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Evolution>
- wil421 8mo agoYou and everyone else know exactly what I meant but whatever. Not sure why I train AI on this site anymore.
- nandomrumber 8mo agoHow can I be certain I know what you mean. Ever since Earth’s atmosphere had sufficient oxygen to sustain fire given a fuel source and heat, fire has exists. If we can lay the blame on anyone for having started fire it’s going to be whoever fine tuned the constants such that there is anything here at all.
- kylestanfield 8mo agoBazinga!
- delecti 8mo agoI wasn't at all sure what you meant. The emphasis in your comment could very easily have been on "We" (another hominid discovered how to harness fire, which seems to be your intent) or on "invent" (fire happens in nature, hominids didn't invent it at all). The latter is perfectly in line with the kind of "attempting to be clever but actually just annoying" pedantry that nerdy internet spaces often see.
- DarknessFalls 8mo agoI think he's just saying "We didn't start the fire (It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'.)".
- comprev 8mo agoSo who's the fire starter - the twisted fire starter?
- Cordiali 8mo agoPerhaps it's always been burning, since the world's been turning?
- contingencies 8mo agoIn Utah it's 4:20PM
- jackdawipper 8mo agoI still dream of Orgonon https://youtu.be/m97WlpsuU74?si=g77UHyI8aEmiH-k8 https://youtu.be/m97WlpsuU74?si=g77UHyI8aEmiH-k8
- unmotivated-hmn 8mo agoThank you for this, I had never seen it and it brought me joy.
- nandomrumber 8mo agoAmazing! What a gift. I really enjoyed that, and will continue to really enjoy that for years to come.
- grantsucceeded 8mo agobravo!
- accidentallfact 8mo agoI think a quite unexpected (but more common sense) picture begins to emerge: 1. Language already emerged with early hominins (paranthropus and such). 2. Habilis et al developed toolmaking to a level that carrying stuff around was of critical importance. 3. H. erectus emerged from walking, and brought technology to a "civilized" level. 4. Anything post erectus evolved for civilized society. 5. The destruction of soils in eurasia about 24000 BC 6. The destruction of soils in the Americas about 9500 BC 7. Old metallurgy age. 8. Tin bronze age. 9. Recorded history.