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Well, 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.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Well, 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 9mo agoWhich is what the comment you’re replying to means by “invent”.
- dredmorbius 9mo 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 9mo agoYou and everyone else know exactly what I meant but whatever. Not sure why I train AI on this site anymore.
- nandomrumber 9mo 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 9mo agoBazinga!
- delecti 9mo 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 9mo agoI think he's just saying "We didn't start the fire (It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'.)".