That being said, I wonder what motivated the first man to understand the workings of metal to the point where he could locate the rock to mine, crush it to separate the ore, and smelting iron out by heating… ??
Not exactly out of the blue sky type knowledge… or was it?
Now we got a plowshare for agriculture, a knife blade for a lot of other stuff… Now we’re ready to settle down and Farm and do a lot of the other buff, like what happened when somebody told the Wright brothers to get off their bike and go fly a kite.
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Re: trust it to rust
Posted by Ironman on May 30, 2026, 9:11 am, in reply to "trust it to rust"
