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minus-square@someguy3link27•1 month agoI thought it was spears. Guess it could be rocks. I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away and I think it broke his brain to see something coming at him like that.
minus-square@marcoslink26•1 month agoYou have to start somewhere. And that somewhere certainly wasn’t multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers.
minus-square@Skullgridlink12•1 month ago multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers. I looked at the post, and for a while the only part I saw was “Amplifiers”
minus-square@marcoslink6•edit-21 month agoMaybe a few more words will make the concept clearer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
minus-square@Skullgridlink5•1 month agoNeat. My comment was more about “electric guitar word found! Disregard the rest of the sentence.”
minus-square@someguy3link2•edit-21 month agoI’m not talking about the start of throwing, I’m talking about the start of evolutionary dominance.
minus-square@rockSlayerlink8•1 month agoRocks make pointy stick, but pointy rock on stick even better for throwing!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoPfft, Imagine needing anything more than your bare hands and the ability to perspire. Endurance predator FTW!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 month agoWhat are these ‘spears’ you talk about? All this modern nonsense.
minus-square@GreenAppleTreelink5•1 month agoEhh, it’s just a fad. The long-stick bubble is gonna burst soon. Just you watch.
minus-squareFlying SquidMlink4•1 month ago I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away Don’t do that to a corvid. They remember human faces and they let their big families know about it too. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends
I thought it was spears. Guess it could be rocks. I threw a pinecone at a magpie to shoo it away and I think it broke his brain to see something coming at him like that.
You have to start somewhere. And that somewhere certainly wasn’t multi-part stick-rocks throwables with complex mechanical movement amplifiers.
I looked at the post, and for a while the only part I saw was “Amplifiers”
Maybe a few more words will make the concept clearer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
Neat.
My comment was more about “electric guitar word found! Disregard the rest of the sentence.”
Catapults are cool
I’m not talking about the start of throwing, I’m talking about the start of evolutionary dominance.
Rocks make pointy stick, but pointy rock on stick even better for throwing!
Pfft, Imagine needing anything more than your bare hands and the ability to perspire.
Endurance predator FTW!
What are these ‘spears’ you talk about? All this modern nonsense.
Ehh, it’s just a fad. The long-stick bubble is gonna burst soon. Just you watch.
Don’t do that to a corvid. They remember human faces and they let their big families know about it too.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends
Good they learned to stop pecking at my siding.