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I want to build a sonic screwdriver.https://t.co/vSkRzep1bG
There's a fun idea about using vibrations to drill. I think there may be some merit.https://t.co/Wxrt94PbVN
They recently uncovered that the inca temples (known for their perfectly fitting stonework) may have been done using pyrite based acids to soften the rocks.https://t.co/ByolZjlAdB
The story of El Dorado, actually might have been lakes of fools gold?https://t.co/lp8EQCUKW6
Mesoamerican "Fool's Gold" found as far north as Arizona.https://t.co/iSe5bQBlLL
Tired: This must be a ritual sun disk.Wired: Actually, this is just a chemical spill from a bad batch of pyrite acid.https://t.co/7B6x9GvZIN
Can you imagine an ancient city exploding for no apparently reason, and everybody believing it was god being angry?https://t.co/PR84GAmzlJ
There is a marble quarry nearby, and I drive by a sculpture area everytime I go to visit the bird sanctuary.Every time I see it, I think about how to cut stone for hours afterward.https://t.co/s6pihvFlnt
How old are pantographs? If the Antikythera was built in ancient Greek, could they have used a potters wheel (traced as far back as Mesopotamia) to carve duplications in marble?Even if this isn't how they did their sculpting, it's a fun idea.https://t.co/Ujn1fxuONv
I found a guy trying to recreate the Antikythera Mechanism using materials and designs sourced from historical records.https://t.co/hmvFLACAHr
He also has a playlist where he builds the tools.He suggested they might have had lathes in Ancient Greece?!https://t.co/emSiEHAYJq
I imagine a tool where there is a 'Tibetan singing bowl' attached to a long rod that acts as a sort of tuning fork/resonator. Then you 'play' the rod by rubbing some leather along it at a sweetspot.https://t.co/aerba8pDkH
Found a scholar article talking about the ancient lathe ideahttps://t.co/XOLqLq0ZXp
If the earliest known pottery wheel was from Mesopotamia, why wouldn't we expect some kind of stone based lathe?https://t.co/78FZIR9U4Ohttps://t.co/XUCIf8Rbm3
I find it fascinating how round ancient pillars were.https://t.co/ZuLRAZyzIx
Spining Tops and vibrating sticks. Children's toys that creep into my ideas.Why does this spin?https://t.co/1KcsrQBCW3
"And if I take a reed -- if I rub this, something very amazing happens. Six major research papers on this. As a matter of fact, Feynman, as a child, was very fascinated by this. He wrote a paper on this."https://t.co/WVIr0wmbrt
This is some spy level shit.https://t.co/1ajhaQOfgz
A child banging on pots and pans, but taken to an extreme?*inception noise*https://t.co/J3X0yi9Oh3
Is there a DIY community dedicated to creating singing bowls?https://t.co/ryuDooxCNF
'Lycurgus Cup; Inspiration level upLet's have a vibrationLet's have a celebrationI love you, red Lycurgus Cup; Inspiration level upProceed to vacillation'https://t.co/2VF7crygQAhttps://t.co/jkkN1P3wS1
Oscillatory vibrations derived from a tuned spinning wheel, or a shaped stone.https://t.co/9kpRPHpQ8P
Tell me again, how old is a crystallophone?https://t.co/vc8HujZfmFhttps://t.co/nm8wEcgA9hReading the part of bone removed. The drum. The rythum.https://t.co/FBzAS0H2f7
A stick being rubbed against a taught piece of sinue attached to a drum is one step away from a viola. Scale that up, you get a violoncello. What if you get bigger?https://t.co/eg9CzlJA0Y
Ideas in my head about finding natural vibrations, from old cartoons.https://t.co/0dBicEaiGE
Silly Symphonies of the celestial harmonies.https://t.co/THUKXsaYyJ
Microbubbles can be modeled as tiny oscillatory 3 axis bells, and may even be able to produce ultrasound.https://t.co/qAWlwHqwy6
How old are these ideas?https://t.co/twLuYrx4sy
Why does it always seem like ideas degrade over time?https://t.co/lFar1qBARC
It amazes me that I can get really interested in how termites build structures with gut bacteria and quickly undermine a Stone mason's theories by projecting out my model into stone carving. https://t.co/OjxhAafLDg
You ever wanna vomit on some rocks to see if your theory about gall and kidney stones is valid?https://t.co/84a3AlOxlYhttps://t.co/QhVyQTG5IM
I make jokes that we are ants.https://t.co/AzVxopCun5
@Evolving_Moloch "The acidity in our stomach is high when compared to omnivores and even to other predators. [...] often consumed old meat containing large quantities of bacteria, and thus needed to maintain a high level of acidity."https://t.co/7AaQ3xAqHXhttps://t.co/lYoISzymO8
Then I wonder if its possible to use ants to manipulate precious metals."Formic acid shares some of the reducing properties of aldehydes, reducing solutions of gold, silver, and platinum to the metals [citation needed]"https://t.co/3416v77QXN
"wood ants obtain an effective protection against a detrimental microorganism by mixing endogenous and plantโacquired chemical defenses. [...] the ability to synergistically combine antimicrobial substances of diverse origins is not restricted to humans"https://t.co/olzvrs5aJG
Rocks might get you high.https://t.co/UriFLoVUbA
"He made Rock Soup, he said in a written statement, to โtry and live on nothing.โ The serendipitous discovery he made is that these rocks get you fugginโ wasted."https://t.co/LDLt932EjO(trying to figure out what made floki's hand heal in "vikings" season 5) https://t.co/U5SCnMKdOq
Jaglavak means fire ant. Did you know formic acid is a natural preservative? I am a crazy ant, you see.https://t.co/XFdEdc0YWVhttps://t.co/L4RXi7TDzO
Why is that strange man harvesting ants and tree resins in the woods?https://t.co/FGOZgeDfTv
You... don't want to know.https://t.co/gATB7aLUgK
The life cycle of crystal gems is weird.https://t.co/fYAnncgS66
"Donโt swallow stones."seems like good advice.https://t.co/3ZwxxCD9LK
Listen, I don't want to eat my own vomit after dissolving rock externally. So using a pressure cooker to dissolve rocks down to slurry (like done with chicken bones) is not an option here.You saying not to eat rocks are really that into vomit eating? Proverbs 26:11, geez man.
Urine -> AmmoniaAmmonia + Bauxite => Ammonia Alum (?)Ammonia Alum + Hide => Tanning LeatherI wonder if Sumerians had excess to this.https://t.co/W4D1XTPboC https://t.co/emc42eNqYy
Maybe?"The earliest known uses of alum in the Mediterranean area, and indeed anywhere, are referred to in Egyptian records of 2000 B.C. They do not identify "alum" specifically, but, as mentioned above, its presence can be deduced"https://t.co/G50r0jhmvJ https://t.co/ggBeDfLzjM
Something something, why would someone accidentally put a hot rock in that glue pot?Did you know that some ancient cave paintings used glue?https://t.co/H1vvv3O8iQ
Why would I be thinking about aluminum, ant vomit, piss, and tanning hides using boiling rocks?To imagine plausible pathways to recreate civilization from scratch, of course.https://t.co/fQ7YuDp0Qc
I was thinking about Weaver ants use their babies' microbes as tiny glue factories and applications in tiny swarming robot factories, of course.https://t.co/lsJL5IZmGNOf Course!https://t.co/rQoENwIUwy
It's really really hard to investigate if humans or other animals use feces as a form of gluehttps://t.co/wTJEeB3o9y
Its amazing how similar ideas can get. https://t.co/3rWjnROWCW
I found a bacteria that eats rocks. Was thinking about what it would take to make them compatible with the human digestion system. As one does. All this really has given me is a better understanding of how to clean my toilet. https://t.co/c7D473RTWh https://t.co/TssNdDE4IK
The toilet design I came up with (also self-cleaning) could be used to dissolve rocks and possibly make tanning solution depending on what kind of rock you put in it. No fancy non-stick coating needed. https://t.co/S6YQeAl377
Toilets are just funny looking self-flushing ceramic pots.Romans had indoor plumbing.Did they have flush toilets?Probably not.https://t.co/vr9JDCHeVUhttps://t.co/Q9k56jMdhQ
Toilets are weird.https://t.co/K2Vl5n8VOj
"in 1983, a Catholic priest said he used the technique to achieve the stone softening but was unable to figure out how to make the stones hard again."https://t.co/QhocPuV3rBI think I figured this out!
Did you know formic acid spontaneously forms on rocks left out in the air and moisture?https://t.co/JZEn0CtaiK
It's fun how often calcium carbonate and calcite show up in materials that get harder over time as they are weathered. Coquina even changes color. https://t.co/3iWwKqbgLc https://t.co/vCzZ4hwHDi
I suspect this can happen with most sedimentary rock.https://t.co/3aQUH7mj4IDid you know that granite is high in calcium and sodium? The other rocks Inca temples were made out of was limestone. https://t.co/G4EUJo4MrVI need to get some samples.
If there was a stone-softening method, it strikes me it would be not that different from how you can made boats out of a tree using fire to 'soften' the wood.https://t.co/ox243D7T8y
If nothing else, I'm learning a lot about South American history thru my inane ramblings about rocks.Rotten plant matter and pyrite, then ant butt juice, to soften and harden rocks? That wouldn't' even be the most impressive thing I've seen about them.https://t.co/Su9HHAqJFR
If you want to test the impact of using high-heat + acid to degrade silicates and calcium's from rock samples, please be sure that you know the expansion co-efficient of the acids you boil in an instant pot. Also note that you'll likely destroy the liner.https://t.co/G2J7SZhm87
If you decide it's a smart idea to seal an acid safe inner container and do "pot-in-pot cooking", make sure you don't accidentally make a bomb โ ๏ธ due to pressure differentials. There's a reason why I think flexible silicon baggies might be a good idea.https://t.co/rtWkG1qDlD
Sealable glass mason jars are great for steeping herbs, but the weight of them is prohibitive for me. I've been looking at using reusable sealing silicon bags instead. Provided they aren't adulterated with other rubbers, I suspect they'll be safe to use. Haven't confirmed yet.
I am not an expert by any means. What I am talking about is potentially unsafe because the acids interact with calcium to produce high amounts of carbon dioxide.https://t.co/BGzBaM0g9I
This pressure increased caused by CO2 production can lead to a catastrophic failure of your instant pot. DO NOT DO THIS. EVER. it is unsafe.https://t.co/L2oYxofDtS
The most excruciating way to die is with hot acids and fractured stones flying at high velocities at you. Please do not.https://t.co/o2byDQmtG9
But how a civilization discover that the guts of a particular ant lead to a hardening of the stones commonly used as Mortar and Pestle?https://t.co/f4dDZh5Lto
I got idea for stainless steel Mortar & Pestle after exploring stacking effects of "stainless armor" perk in Noita. Coincided with thinking on there being granite and marble mats in game. (traditional materials for construction)https://t.co/I4JWCoQYS8https://t.co/jGRqD5JFD4
What, you think they ate the ants raw?https://t.co/eV1t7RLSU3
I grind me bones to make me bread.Says a poem about turning cow bones into fertilizer for wheat fields.https://t.co/rUkKqjs0E6
Big Crystal Energyhttps://t.co/1g9vIWZNyL
โdue to health and safety concerns, we were unable to explore human faeces-based [extraterrestrial regolith biocomposites] in this study.โ https://t.co/zJTTc8hYS2https://t.co/B5kVfH02fW
That is... Upsetting.https://t.co/ZqT4eZ5vpt
Note to self: "Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica)" is a common medical plant. It appear to make formic acid as part of their sting. Something like this plant might be harvestable to extract Formic Acid for stone softening work purposes, in liu of using ants.
Gonna buy some dog bowls.https://t.co/cDG5tjTjKm
Tired: Signing bowls to harmonize yourself with surrounding environment.Wired: Signing bowels to harmonize yourself with surrounding environment.Inspired: Culturally appropriating all the religions under a deluded sense of the mimeses of creation.https://t.co/qkYBcaEL6K
They gotta sound right tho.https://t.co/QiaJYwYHuM
Joking about being actually acoustic.https://t.co/K8iXInZ0f7
I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: the King of kings is drawing near; Lift up your heads and behold my gates,ye Mighty, and despair! My name is Ozymandias.https://t.co/QnaX27kMxS
the Savior of the world is here!eternal praise, eternal famebe offered, Savior, to thy name!Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.https://t.co/Ic4eJnCBVG
A Hyminalist between worlds.https://t.co/jCFU460cCLhttps://t.co/b8aitINkmF
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