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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

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    The copper age only lasted about 1000 years. Then came the bronze age. But the iron has been going on for longer than the bronze age and copper age combined.

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        “we’re in a late stage bronzist society, it’ll collapse any day now!”

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            That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call “foreshadowing”.

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        What do you mean there was a mythical sea people?! Lol rabbit hole.

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            Anatolia?

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      I believe bronze and iron weapons are equally powerful, but bronze is a mixture of copper and tin (requiring two types of input). Iron is more plentiful than tin, so militaries do not need large supplies of tin if they can manipulate iron. Steel, I believe, needs much higher temperatures and purified inputs.

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        While iron is more plentiful than tin, it is harder to purify than tin or copper. The ‘iron age’ refers to the time when humans started smelting iron, and making tools using various steels and other iron-based alloys. These are generally much stronger than bronze.

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        Nope. Not at all. Steel weapons are superior to bronze in every way.

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          The comparison was iron and bronze. Not steel and bronze.

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            There was never a time when iron was used in a major way until they figured out how to make steel. So technically it was always the steel age, not the iron age.

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            Steel, I believe, needs much higher temperatures and purified inputs.

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              And?

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                … and steel was brought up.

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                  But not in the context of a comparison with bronze. Nobody made the claim that Bronze was as strong as Steel.

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          Bronze is better at making musical instruments, and who doesn’t need a trumpet or a tuba nowadays?

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        Iron, like actual iron, is weaker than bronze. IIRC, tensile strength is copper<iron<bronze<steel, by roughly x2.

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      Surely we are in a steel age and not an iron age

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        Technically it was never the iron age but the steel age.

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        End of silicon age and the start of the quantum age.

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          That’s ridiculous, you can’t make a good sword out of silicon.

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            How do you know? I bet you never even tried.

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              Well I tried a “sword” made out of silicon and it was only good for pleasuring my wife

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                You’re probably thinking of silicone, but either way, good on you.

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