Firstly, Botswana would have to tranquilize, capture and transport 20,000 elephants out of their country (since they have no connection to the sea), which would consume a lot of their time and money without mentioning human casualties. Then, all elephants would have to be placed inside containers on a ship and be fed regularly with food and oxygen WITHOUT having them escape. And then, when the ship finally arrives in Germany, Botswana would have to transport the elephants into a German city without getting blocked by German troops. And what will happen then? Germans will tranquilize all elephants and ship them back to Botswana because Germany has much more money than Botswana.
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zenzonegaming
(Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)
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How do you think that people first found out that cured whale bile is good in perfumes?
aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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By experimenting with the material, they eventually found that out.
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Trappist-1e
("shot for the moon, and if you miss, you get on sun orbit lol")
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I donโt exactly know why i wasted so much time doing this thing, but i did it anyways soooโฆ
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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I wonder what the next one will beโฆ [REDACTED] rights?
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HexapodPhilosopher
(Disguised as a rock, until you get too close...)
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Hereโs an interesting, though slightly-misleading article on recent endosymbiosis:
Itโs misleading in that it starts off making it seem like this only just happened, but the endocytosis happened about 100 million years ago (evolutionarily recent).
This is whatโs known as knowing-how rather than knowing-that. Itโs debated whether knowing-how counts as conscious knowledge in any meaningful way. Regardless, this consideration is generally had in relation to conscious beings, rather than fundamental physical forces.
aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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I think for now the question of UCโs is closed because no one has been able to get concrete evidence that metal can be properly smelted into usable items below the waterline.
What about tools made of gold? Gold is already malleable at room temperature, and wonโt melt underwater; and gallium, while it will melt on a day just a bit too hot, will melt in temperatures water can get to so you can cast it into shapes. If you need a harder metal, you could melt a pot of gallium, find your rock that gets dirty the easiest when left in the sand, stir the sand, leave the rock in the middle of the vortex, scrape the iron dust into the molten gallium, if you can find any, add a punch of mercury, and then mix in more and more gold until it becomes a solid. On land the metal that makes is considered low quality gold, but underwater it could be your best bet for a metal that gets malleable and can be worked underwater while still being able to break rocks, and if the iron doesnโt mix right, crush it finer.
Keep in mind aquatic civs donโt have to be exclusively fresh or salt water, and could be both if you need that, so with the right tools made of stone or clay dried on land, you could take the gold from rivers, but it wouldnโt be very pure gold and would contain a lot of silica as the gold is generally from eroded veins of gold containing rock and not just pure gold.
aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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I have a feeling that hhyyrylainen will have things to say about this thesisโฆ
Happy Earth Day. I forgot that today is Earth Day but in school we went out collecting some garbage in a forest due to the event.
Regarding clay, where do we throw out bricks? They are definetly not paper or glass, metal / plastic not, I think. I found one and threw into โmixedโ because it was the only that seemed suitable.