When Birds Migrated to the Moon

Re:When Birds Migrated to the Moon by hyperpallium2 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @10:11PM (#25619015)

It's cute to call it "proto" science fiction ("prescience"?), but much of recent science fiction doesn't have much to do with science. Some is engineering or technology fiction.

Technology is old. I think weaving (as in cloth) might be oldest - I don't count dogs, olives or fire as they were domesticated, not created.

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Re:When Birds Migrated to the Moon by aaronblohowiak on Saturday January 02, 2021 @11:45PM (#25619534)

Blades are the oldest technology we have evidence of, iiuc.

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Re:When Birds Migrated to the Moon by hyperpallium2 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @09:10AM (#25621837)

You're right. Weaves wouldn't leave evidence, though the progression of rock, pointier rock, knapping seems easier than the leap of weaving, anyway - I'd guess it came about 70,000 years ago with the cultural explosion of cognition.

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Re:When Birds Migrated to the Moon by aaronblohowiak on Monday January 04, 2021 @02:34AM (#25628637)

Sharp rocks go back 2 million :)

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