Its all so ridiculous… its all so f g ridiculous … even Deathwake has understood that underwater cold working is working the same as abovewater cold working. ITS THE SAME PRINCIPLE UNCHANGED. It can make any parts i want it to make from gold/copper maybe even iron/nickel. And as i stated above, simple metal sheets/slabs for constructing this very simple hot forge.
No, your argument was asking for proof that the forge is able to make the desired shapes for the hot forge. Which there isnt, i can only give you an explanation since none tried cold forging with stone dies underwater. Just like none has tried making wine before 6000BC.
Why do we even need underwater smelting as underwater creatures? I am sure you can make a floating platform and either hold breath ( How To - What Fish Can Survive the Longest Out of Water? | Live Science Forums ) or just make reverse scuba diving (strap some wooden buckets with water to your gills, its not that hard lol). Then you can just make a furnace! It would take a long time to discover that there are things you can do above water you can’t below water, but it would be possible! Now prove me wrong… (I am reviving this topic since it is the only one unlocked about underwater civilizations and I didn’t want to make another topic)
I know, the underwater metalworking/electricity argument has been done hundreds of times, and
I agree that it isn’t feasible in any way, but,
Is it possible that some sort of deep sea society could dig deep enough for there to be magma, and then using rocks or something shape that magma into what they need, and then let it cool?
Also, instead of electricity couldn’t an underwater civ use water pipes of some sort for “powering” certain machines?
I have the solution!
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… Alright I guess Hhyyrylainen put it here. I guess just put your solutions after the line below.
Hydrothermal vents
Use hydrothermal vents to smelt metal
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The hydrothermal vents produce heat that could be used to smelt metal, maybe by building a forge around them to capture the heat.
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The vents get to hot for most large creatures to stand at all, it literally boils the water around it. For a creature to withstand that heat, they would have to have a thick carapace to block the heat, and even the they would not withstand the heat long enough to build something or care that some rock melted.
It would take a lot longer for them to figure out, but it would be possible for them to make fire, even on an ocean world. If you can’t smeltal the meltal in water, just use air.
But everyone thought it was a joke. And maybe it was. But does it have to be? We know water is the problem. And you have to be inside the water to make an underwater civilisation. The logical conclusion is, get your hands out of the water. It checks all the boxes.
another thing you could do: have liquid hydrocarbon oceans and high oxygen levels in those oceans
Lipovomit
(A lone Slugcat who lost their family.)
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But then the oceans would literally burn, killing all life on the planet! (maybe, definitely all aquatic life, but not so sure about terrestrial life, but still, that’s going to cause a mass extinction!)
Edit: please, this isn’t funny, @50gens. Mass extinctions are no laughing matter. You want to preserve biodiversity, right?
no, there would be oxygen free areas of the oceans(like on earth) and the hydrocarbons would likely be replenished by a biological or geological process so the oceans would survive and so would any marine life that could move and store large amounts of oxygen or just live without oxygen
Lipovomit
(A lone Slugcat who lost their family.)
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I have no idea how fast hydrocarbons regenerate on Titan-class planets, and as such, i cannot give a valid counterargument.
Lipovomit
(A lone Slugcat who lost their family.)
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Oops. I didn’t read THAT part.
multicraft
(go vote up every decent khan academy program)
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it is reasonable if you know what is mudskippers (Mudskipper - Wikipedia) mudskippers is fishes with limited [terrestrial locomotion (Terrestrial locomotion - Wikipedia) and jumping so if underwater civs want to go to stone age to iron age then they can just skip to land and start a fire and start to heat iron
I’m assuming you’re rather new, so welcome! Underwater civs have been a long and intense topic. The current policy is that all proposals must have a thesis, a clear outline of points, argumentative paragraphs in the format of a research paper, and references to substantiated sources. Trust me, it’s necessary; we’ve heard your suggestion, for example, atleast 50 times the past 3 years.
The thread I linked above is the most recent thread about the topic here. Dive into the topic and see what you think. Expect this thread to be merged soon; many threads with the same topic pop up.
g ridiculous … even Deathwake has understood that underwater cold working is working the same as abovewater cold working. ITS THE SAME PRINCIPLE UNCHANGED. It can make any parts i want it to make from gold/copper maybe even iron/nickel. And as i stated above, simple metal sheets/slabs for constructing this very simple hot forge.
