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CommonShore posted:There was some belief that tomatoes were poisonous because of their similarity to deadly nightshade, but iirc it wasn't a general or widespread belief. And corn was once thought to be poisonous because people who ate too much (ie nothing else) came down with pellagra.
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Ras Het posted:This is because white people never bothered to nixtamalize the corn. It's a good example of how we take other cultures' foods without understanding their preparation at all. Another good example is people eating raw maca flour and then complaining of stomach aches Even if you nixtamalise you're still going to want to vary your diet a bit. Add beans and squash, say.
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Apr 16, 2017 12:31
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ChaseSP posted:Anyone not saying distillation is a person who hasn't drank enough. The Coffey continuous still. I am going to be so loving rich.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:16
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:okay but what is the best modern technology you can bring the romans provided you are restricted to technologies that are directly focused on producing and preparing cabbage Nitrate mining?
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Apr 21, 2017 03:46
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cheetah7071 posted:Actually I assume that as long as your fuel is wood you're probably out of luck because a hot air balloon has to lift its own fuel and wood is heavy. I haven't done the math but I wouldn't be surprised if you have to have a much denser fuel to make it all work. I think charcoal works. Harder to adjust than gas though, so altitude control could be an issue.
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Apr 21, 2017 23:11
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fishmech posted:Many of the balloon flights of the US Civil War were done with wood fires simply because it was cheap, available, and you needed to get back to the ground quickly anyway to pass on important detail. Couldn't you just wrap your message around a brick and drop it? Let the cavalryman assigned as liaison retrieve it.
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Apr 22, 2017 00:30
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OwlFancier posted:I would kind of like to see Rome spend the equivalent of the F35 budget on making a hot air balloon out of silk. Combat effectiveness would probably be pretty similar.
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Apr 22, 2017 23:49
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fantastic in plastic posted:Could Hannibal have conquered Rome if he had nuclear weapons? I think 'conquer' implies that you get to keep it afterwards.
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Jun 23, 2017 06:04
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Deteriorata posted:The Egyptians refused to use bronze because they didn't invent it (also because they didn't have a native source of tin and weren't about to be dependent on anyone for it). They cut the stones for the pyramids with copper tools. Are there any other alloying materials you can use to make faux-bronze? Arsenic?
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Jun 28, 2017 03:04
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HEY GAIL posted:is my hat big and fluffy enough Answer: No. Your hat can always be bigger and fancier.
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Aug 3, 2017 12:37
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Baron Porkface posted:I assumed that a Horse drawn cart would be better for short distances since you don't have to be trapped on a boat for weeks and die of a disease form the disease pit that is a ship. Coastal shipping is way safer and healthier than cross-ocean shipping.
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Aug 13, 2017 03:04
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Ithle01 posted:If you win you're not really a pretender anymore are you? And furthermore you never were.
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Aug 16, 2017 12:36
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This is what i know about iron-age Finland 1) Smoked meat makes good currency 2) Njerpez are assholes
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Aug 30, 2017 08:14
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Grand Fromage posted:I assume you already know this but you'll also want to read the Viking sagas. Those are written many centuries after the period in question, but modern archaeology/scholarship supports the idea that they are largely based on real events and contain useful historical information. Such as: the Vikings loving loved lawsuits and complicated legal proceedings.
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Aug 30, 2017 08:22
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Grand Fromage posted:Here's a Pompeii cat mosaic on the early internet. A bit pixellated but I suppose they needed to limit themselves to low res images.
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Sep 5, 2017 10:33
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Stringent posted:What, like moreso than humans? Humans are just a domesticated helper the cats bring along.
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Sep 5, 2017 11:33
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You need to fire the limestone and turn it into lime, right? Not just plain limestone?
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Oct 17, 2017 04:37
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LingcodKilla posted:Just killing them by hand? No it's a very detailed and magical ritual that just happens to involve inserting a dagger into your intended victim's heart as part of step 14.
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Nov 16, 2017 05:09
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Don Gato posted:What if I want to kill someone but don't want to physically leave my house, what then smart guy? Or money. Money works too.
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Nov 16, 2017 09:23
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Was the wine premixed in cups, or did they bring out a pitcher of neat wine and you water it yourself? If it was the first, how did you make sure the popina was using the correct amount of water / not adding extra to make more profit?
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Nov 21, 2017 12:48
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Being absolutely immune to the enemy's weapons means the tank destroyer probably wins, but the Romans can always dig a big tiger trap and bait the tank into it. Then release it into the Arena.
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Nov 25, 2017 04:48
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Arglebargle III posted:Hey give me some counter examples for "gold has always had trade value for 10,000 years" Where? I mean, if you showed an Australian aborigine circa 1200CE some gold he'd say "what" and probably be little interested in trading for it.
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Dec 5, 2017 08:19
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Arc lamps need a shitload of juice though.
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unwantedplatypus posted:can it be used as a weapon? Pretty sure it's flammable, so yes.
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Jan 9, 2018 09:03
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Doesn't using unrefined coal for metalworking leave you with sulfur contamination in your iron?
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Arglebargle III posted:Handals? I think it's called a cestus.
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Feb 21, 2018 12:52
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Telsa Cola posted:Yeah my favorite mindfuck is the relative lateness of the introduction of the bow and arrow. You get reaaal fancy pottery before you get them. Don't you need to be pretty on top of wood selection/seasoning/shaping to make a bow powerful enough to kill things? It might have been tried many times before that, but abandoned for being poo poo.
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skasion posted:That’s it, they must have hosed with the ducks Did you know that there are (were) no mammals in New Zealand? Just avians, filling in all the normal mammal roles.
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Apr 27, 2018 11:22
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Something that came up in a different thread: Could you smelt/work bronze if you were limited to seasoned wood as a fuel (not charcoal) ? How much of a pain in the rear end would it be?
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May 31, 2018 11:17
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MikeCrotch posted:Surely if you have wood you can make charcoal? Or is the assumption that the person doing the smelting doesn't know how to make it? In this case charcoal making hasn't been discovered for complicated reasons.
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May 31, 2018 11:39
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CommonShore posted:It's possible to fire porcelain with seasoned wood, that's well above what's needed for bronze, so yes it's is easily within the realm of possibility. Thanks. Are there any later stages in the process that need a good fire, or once you've cast it is it all cold-working from there?
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Jun 1, 2018 03:58
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And white. Ceramic was my first assumption reading the story.
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Jun 21, 2018 06:02
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Don Gato posted:So did the Romans think of other gods as equivalents to their own gods or did they see the world more as "my God can beat up your God"? I'm sorry if this is an obvious question but I've been having trouble figuring out how the Romans saw religion. "What do you mean 'your' god? They're my gods now."
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Grevling posted:Truly there is nothing new under the sun! Except Sea People.
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COOL CORN posted:
This looks like a IUPAC nomenclature system for emperors.
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Aug 20, 2018 06:06
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It's also quite possible that the same geographical causes that meant there were people there in Roman times / a reason for a road still apply today.
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If you're hunting a Tiger I'm happy for you to use whatever pre-gunpowder weapon you want. You'll still probably have to shadow it until it breaks down
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Here are the relevant parts from the code: Does 'man' equate to 'person' in this context, or did they not bother to legislate re women?
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Oct 18, 2018 02:34
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They'll be saying similar things about 21st century archaeologists some day.
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What sort of stuff do archaeologists do to try and leave rich finds of our current era for archaeologists of the year 2500?
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