• Eager Eagle
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    271 year ago

    Solely based on knowledge, yes. In practice most of us wouldn’t be able to create a half working lamp from raw materials.

    • ivanafterall
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      1 year ago

      “I call it…FIRE!!! Oh. Shit. You already have that. I don’t really know any others.”

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      This is also why at see inventions emerge almost at the same moment from people who don’t share knowledge.

      A lot of invention is material science.

      Even if I know enough to make a modern computer from raw materials, I’m not going to find the necessary industry to refine those raw materials correctly in the 1400s.