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   Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 00:02:43 JST Dad

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   The meme @coolboymew mentioned on our podcast
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     Author (anime@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 00:02:39 JST Author

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     @Elliptica @galena @coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad Isekai in general is extremely formulaic about the inventions they bring out: water pump, skin products. Dr.Stone at least has the variety. It pays for it with a loss of the "magical realism" aka fidelity. One other work that took an interesting middle ground was "Sengoku Komachi Kuro-tan"[1]. It had all kinds of low-tech equipment to grow rice, which only took knowledge and absolutely was plausible. Frankly it was shocking that it took until 19th century to invent some of it.
     
     1: https://mangadex.org/title/a4304d3b-191d-471f-8c78-353d403a35d0/sengoku-komachi-kuroutan-noukou-giga
     受不了包 likes this.
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     Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 00:02:40 JST Anime Wong

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     @galena @noyoushutthefuckupdad @coolboymew To be fair, most of this isn't so ridiculous. A lot of technology is not as complex as we like imagine, and even what we'd consider primitive people often had access to lots of surprising raw materials. Primitive tech does not need to compete with modern tech to be useful, it just needs to out perform everything else in it's place.
     
     The bigger issues are:
     
     >The timescales involved with making something, without a single mistake in the design.
     >Lack of trained craftsmen/economy of scale. There should be no way that Senku could have made working vacuum tubes, even if he had all of the materials and knowledge needed to do it.
     >There is no way anyone could remember how to do all of that stuff perfectly.
     
     But the point of a show like Dr. Stone isn't to be realistic. It's about a kid who is an unparalleled genius showing us how technology works at a very basic level.
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     Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 00:02:41 JST Dad

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     @galena @coolboymew no dude I would totally be Senku from Dr. Stone and instantly recreate modern technology with sticks and mud with a 100% success rate
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     Toxic Darkest Sinner (galena@paws.moe)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 00:02:41 JST Toxic Darkest Sinner

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @coolboymew I've never understood people like that. Even if you actually intricately understand exactly how it functions and how to recreate it, you only know how to recreate it with modern tools, technology, and resources. They literally do not have the tools required to create the materials required to create the tools you require to make it, they are so far removed from modern technology that you basically need to design every single aspect of the process from scratch. Even if you know exactly how to create something modern, it's not going to help much when they don't even have the technology required to reliably create steel. Go back far enough, and they might not even be able to use iron. I doubt even the greatest firearms engineers on the planet could build a semi automatic pistol or rifle from scratch if they had to figure out how to mine, smelt, and forge every single piece from scratch, using no modern tools or materials whatsoever, unless they also happened to have an autistic savant level fascination with the complete history of metalworking throughout the ages; but some random fag thinks he can just go back in time and tell bronze age peasants "uhh in my time we have these things called guns" and have them recreate them.
     
     That's assuming they even believe the random foreign intruder speaking in a strange tongue, babbling about heretical magics while insisting he is the greatest mind the kingdom has ever seen.
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     Toxic Darkest Sinner (galena@paws.moe)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 00:02:42 JST Toxic Darkest Sinner

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @coolboymew "you uhhh get a bunch of lithium and then you uhhh mix it with some ions"
     "what is lithium? what's an ion?"
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     VishalThind (tornadoofterror@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 01:49:42 JST VishalThind

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     @deprecated_ii @teknomunk @EdBoatConnoisseur @coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad Wtf TurboBusa bros are we back
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     @TornadoOfTerror @deprecated_ii @teknomunk @EdBoatConnoisseur @coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad who need they turbussy spun?
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     d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 01:49:43 JST d

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     @teknomunk @EdBoatConnoisseur @coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad well usually the former but I've seen both
     
     youtube.com/watch?v=XBxpbDZeG6I
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     @deprecated_ii @EdBoatConnoisseur @coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad
     
     Impulse turbines or trying to mimic the commercial jet engine and steam turbines?
     
     I think the latter is going to have a lot of problems if you don't get the tolerances right and the gas leaks around the blades without doing any work.
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 01:49:45 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @noyoushutthefuckupdad @coolboymew Just boil water, that is what every big tech powerplant does anyway

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     @EdBoatConnoisseur @noyoushutthefuckupdad @coolboymew I've seen a fair number of people make their own turbine generators or whatever and I'm always impressed at how poor the efficiency is
     
     I mean we're talking about 3D printed stuff for the most part but still you'd think it would be better than the ~5% or so they usually manage