It's so easy how is everyone so stupid. I'd invent the train afterward and drive around everyone saying "you're so fucking stupid I'm not even good at this and I did it".

  • happybadger [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    You nake the container and then boil the water and then make the steam turn a thing. So easy and it took them forever.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There actually were simple steam engines in ancient times, it just took a while for metallurgy to advance to the point where you could make one that did a useful amount of work.

        • happybadger [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          How much metallurgy could it take. Christ people are lazy.

          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            It's super fucking easy actually, just heat up some wood to make charcoal, then heat up the charcoal to melt the metal while mixing in a different bit of charcoal to make it into steel. It's like these people have never played around with Minecraft mods!

    • blly509 [he/him,any]
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      4 years ago

      Well someone else pointed out that usually slaves were way easier and cheaper. That industrial revolution thing was a real complicated and interesting transition that made a super complicated and actually useful steam engine profitable.