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minus-squareBarqsHasBitelinkfedilink27•4 days agoI thought it was spears. Guess it could be rocks. I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away and I think it broke his brain to see something coming at him like that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink25•4 days agoYou have to start somewhere. And that somewhere certainly wasn’t multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•4 days ago multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers. I looked at the post, and for a while the only part I saw was “Amplifiers”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-24 days agoMaybe a few more words will make the concept clearer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•4 days agoNeat. My comment was more about “electric guitar word found! Disregard the rest of the sentence.”
minus-squareBarqsHasBitelinkfedilink2•edit-24 days agoI’m not talking about the start of throwing, I’m talking about the start of evolutionary dominance.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•4 days agoRocks make pointy stick, but pointy rock on stick even better for throwing!
minus-squareFlying SquidMlinkfedilink3•4 days ago I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away Don’t do that to a corvid. They remember human faces and they let their big families know about it too. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•4 days agoWhat are these ‘spears’ you talk about? All this modern nonsense.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•4 days agoEhh, it’s just a fad. The long-stick bubble is gonna burst soon. Just you watch.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•4 days agoPfft, Imagine needing anything more than your bare hands and the ability to perspire. Endurance predator FTW!
I thought it was spears. Guess it could be rocks. I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away and I think it broke his brain to see something coming at him like that.
You have to start somewhere. And that somewhere certainly wasn’t multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers.
I looked at the post, and for a while the only part I saw was “Amplifiers”
Maybe a few more words will make the concept clearer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
Neat.
My comment was more about “electric guitar word found! Disregard the rest of the sentence.”
Catapults are cool
I’m not talking about the start of throwing, I’m talking about the start of evolutionary dominance.
Rocks make pointy stick, but pointy rock on stick even better for throwing!
Don’t do that to a corvid. They remember human faces and they let their big families know about it too.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends
Good they learned to stop pecking at my siding.
What are these ‘spears’ you talk about? All this modern nonsense.
Ehh, it’s just a fad. The long-stick bubble is gonna burst soon. Just you watch.
Pfft, Imagine needing anything more than your bare hands and the ability to perspire.
Endurance predator FTW!