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c/trippinthroughtime · by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5d

Good description

227 points · 9 comments · view on lemmy.world

9 Comments

Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 5d (8 replies)

I feel like the evolution of weaponry was something like:

  1. hit it with a stick
  2. throw a rock at it
    3a. hit them with a rock on the end of a stick
    3b. use a string / spring to throw the rock faster / harder
  3. hit it with a SHARP rock on a stick
  4. throw the sharp rock on a stick AT them
  5. use a string / spring to throw the sharp rock on a stick faster / harder
  6. use a lever to pull the string back harder to throw the sharp rock on a stick even harder / faster
  7. put the rock in a tube on top of some explosives then point the end of the tube at someody.
  8. put some tracks on the inside of the tube to spin the rock so it flies straighter
  9. hollow out the rock, and put more explosives inside of it etc etc etc
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 10 pts · 5d (4 replies)

First weapon was probably a rock.

Korval@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 5d (1 reply)

Maybe it's because of where I grew up, but I could usually find a serviceable stick more easily than a decent rock.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 5d

I think that would be even more true before modern equipment. There would be foliage covering everything, unless your by a streambed or something a rock would be a pain to find consistently.

No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 5d (1 reply)

Cain Rock Regiment

Korval@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 4d

That's a good point. I've never heard it specified (outside of art) how can killed Abel, but assuming they were farmers, it's reasonable that it could have been with a rock: the only times I've consistently found decently-sized rocks was when I needed to dig a hole. Not when I wanted a rock, mind, but when I needed a hole.

Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 6 pts · 5d (1 reply)

use a lever to pull the string back harder to throw the sharp rock on a stick even harder / faster

Fun fact: many crossbows despite being hard as fuck to load deal way less force than a heavy bow, they are only good when you have an army of farmers who only know how to plant and you wanna use them for war

Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 5d

I meant more like a ballista

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 4d

throw the sharp rock on a stick AT them

Not this one, why would you give your enemy your weapon and leave yourself unarmed?