Pff. You call that flying?

Oh like you can hit reverse.esrever tih nac uoy ekil hO

I remember it was in the new books section of the school library and I was attracted to it immediately and spent the day reading it instead of paying attention in my classes. I need to read it again. Thanks for bringing it up!

I read that ages ago. Back in high school, in fact (I’m 46). I don’t remember it except the chapter where time is a flock of birds that you have to try to catch to stay youthful. The children can catch them but always let them go and the adults can never catch them.

Mindblowing. I never even thought of things that way!

That’s actually smaller than I would have thought. I wouldn’t have expected our solar system to even be visible in comparison.

Maybe so. I don’t think it’s evidence that anarchy is the best solution, just that neolithic societies without hierarchies were still able to achieve amazing things.

But it’s not like they were making cars and computers, this is a drainage system. It’s very impressive for stone age people, but they are still stone age people.

Wow.

Mercury arc valves remain in use in some South African mines and Kenya (at Mombasa Polytechnic - Electrical & Electronic department).

Amazing how we’re still using such old technology in some places when we have semiconductors.

That said, a microscope that generates its own light without electricity could be quite useful…

The Vikings expanded throughout Russia by using the Volga as a highway.

Feed me, Seymour…

It’s 42, we told you. Stop asking.

I think the writers just couldn’t bear it.

I don’t know that you could necessarily develop the wheelbarrow without first having the concept of the wheeled cart.

Wheeled carts are not very practical without draught animals to pull them. And the one place they had animals like that, in South America, llamas and the civilizations that utilized them lived in the mountains where wheeled carts aren’t practical either.

They say that Native Americans never developed the wheel. They clearly did. For sick dog skateboard tricks.

I just spent 5 minutes on Google because I misread your first line as ‘rips sock bong hit’ and I was trying to figure out what the hell a sock bong was.

When I was 7, my family took a trip to Italy. We went to the Vatican. While we were there, we discovered a little side door that was open and went inside. Inside were a dozen gold carriages used to carry Popes before they got cars. At 7 years old, I asked my parents why they didn’t sell these and feed starving kids in Africa. Even a little kid can see the injustice.

Tomatoes can be grown pretty successfully indoors. Also prickly pear.