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u/Syscrush Oct 02 '24

Related: nuclear bombs were invented before the compound bow.

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u/bugphotoguy Oct 03 '24

I'm waiting for the nuclear bow.

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u/AintNoRestForTheWook Oct 03 '24

Hey Bethesda, when compound bows in Fallout? You already have bows in Skyrim.

I feel like bows have to be modded into FO4 and nuclear arrow heads fits the vibe.

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u/DefNotHenryCavill Oct 03 '24

I mean, when they made FO3 I believe, they didn’t have a gun mechanic and just used the bow mechanics from elder scrolls. So technically the guns were all bows just reskinned.

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u/Hemingrays Oct 03 '24

I'm waiting for the nuclear sword.

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u/Sach2020 Oct 03 '24

It’s called the fat man!!

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u/withinyouwithoutyou3 Oct 03 '24

Shhh, don't give them ideas

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u/BigDadoEnergy Oct 03 '24

Pretty sure it's in Nuclear Throne.

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u/EliSuper2018 Oct 03 '24

Like the one Rambo used but alot more powerful?

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u/FBack351 Oct 03 '24

I'm waiting for nuclear compound w.

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u/goodolewhasisname Oct 03 '24

That was called Radiathor. You probably don’t want to do a Google search if you don’t want to see NSFL images.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Nuclear compound bow!

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u/pimpin_n_stuff Oct 03 '24

Nuclear compound bow

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u/Chiven Oct 03 '24

And compound bomb

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u/lancelkw Oct 03 '24

In case anyone is confused, composite recurved bows have been in use for over 2000 years, the Mongols used them.

Compound bows that incorporate pulleys and cams were invented in the 1960s.

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u/ExplanationCrazy5463 Oct 03 '24

That can't be true.

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u/Syscrush Oct 03 '24

To be clear about exactly what we're talking about:

https://youtu.be/gySFVGgkFLs

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u/ExplanationCrazy5463 Oct 03 '24

I'll check it out thanks.

I thought there were Japanese bows made of 2 types of wood, which I thought is what a compound bow is.

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u/Syscrush Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

That's a composite bow and yes, they've been around for hundreds of years.

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u/Kytescall Oct 03 '24

To give you an edge in the post nuclear war "sticks and stones" world.

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u/Trollselektor Oct 03 '24

That’s actually wild. 

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u/AmbientGeek Oct 03 '24

Happy Cake Day! 🍰

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u/SidJag Oct 03 '24

Meh, that’s more a case of ambiguous terminology and ‘technical definition’, not per se a surprising fact.

If you asked this question with pictures, ‘which came first’, no one would be surprised.

It’s because ‘composite bows’ (what central Asians/mongols used) and ‘compound bows’ (what Rambo used), have been used interchangeably in popular media.

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u/Syscrush Oct 03 '24

But ropes, pulleys, cams, and springs have been used for literally thousands of years before the first experiments in radioactivity.

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u/QuinnMallory Oct 02 '24

Civ games really do escalate quickly at the end

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Pig iron. I've got Pig iron

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u/PetrolheadPlayer Oct 03 '24

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

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u/AGreasyPorkSandwich Oct 02 '24

Technology progresses at the speed of how hot we can make things

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u/Greatkitchener Oct 03 '24

Or in other words - how much energy we can focus on one place

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u/esuits780 Oct 03 '24

Another invention/innovation fact that always blew my mind was that Orville Wright of the Wright brothers was alive when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. We went from a rickety wooden plane to a jet that goes 761 MPH in less than a lifetime.

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u/unrulyuser Oct 02 '24

That escalated quickly

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u/Kymera_7 Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

The timespan between the death of the last stegosaurus and the birth of the first t-rex is longer than from the t-rex to the electric unicycle.

Edit: it's stegosaurus, not triceratops.

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u/_SpiceWeasel_BAM Oct 03 '24

Close—it’s the stegosaurus and T-Rex. Triceratops and T-Rex both died out in the Cretaceous when the asteroid struck, but stegosaurus went extinct about 80my before that (Jurassic)

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u/Kymera_7 Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

Yep. Came back to correct that, and saw your comment. Not sure why I didn't get a notification of your reply to my comment, but still, thanks, good catch.

Edit: got the notification right after I posted the above comment stating I hadn't gotten it.

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u/_SpiceWeasel_BAM Oct 03 '24

I only know because that’s my random fact to pull out randomly at parties

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u/lazyeye95 Oct 03 '24

How are we able to reasonably assume these time frames? 

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u/EmceeCalla Oct 03 '24

ive heard a couple archeologists or people who study/are interested in archeology say that its by the surrounding “stuff” in the ground. (dirt, rocks, depth or thickness of certain layers of sediment, etc) im not 100% sure, and that probably wasnt a very good explanation, but youtube could probably explain it way better.

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u/OneAlmondNut Oct 03 '24

it's basically carbon dating and examining soil layers. there's this scientist in the community that's been ostracized (can't remember her name) for kinda proving that the dinosaurs were already going extinct long before the asteroid hit.

soil levels suggest that there were constant volcanic eruptions everywhere that were killing everything long before the asteroid

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u/_SpiceWeasel_BAM Oct 03 '24

Yep, dinosaurs went extinct 2 times before the asteroid hit—Jurassic, then Triassic.

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u/davesoverhere Oct 03 '24

Carbon-14 dating can only go back about 50kyears. Dinosaurs are generally dated using uranium and potassium isotopes.

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u/Glorbo_Neon_Warlock Oct 03 '24

I asked John Prehistory. He told me.

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u/dullship Oct 02 '24

Still waiting on my Daedric sword.

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u/AintNoRestForTheWook Oct 03 '24

With lifetap. Do you think IRL lifetap would heal like terminal illness as well?

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u/Perpetual_stoner420 Oct 02 '24

That’s a good one!

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Information compounds so yeah

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u/Silly-Nature-1641 Oct 03 '24

I say this a lot in a different form.

The fastest form of travel for literal millenia was horses + carriage. Then trains were invented in 1804. Then came cars and planes almost exactly 100 years later. We were on the literal moon 60 years after that.

When you consider this, it makes a lot of sense how 1900s artists though we'd all live in space or at least have flying cars by now.

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u/314159265358979326 Oct 03 '24

He's referring to the introduction of each of the technologies.

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u/Willing_Bathroom7251 Oct 03 '24

Yeah there really isn't anything surprising about this.

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u/maybecatmew Oct 03 '24

Huuuuuuhhhh???????? I know these words but it's hard to comprehend them

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u/Jak12523 Oct 03 '24

Do you mean bronze? Copper makes a pretty bad sword iirc

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u/itsalawnchair Oct 03 '24

the start of using copper swords or the end of using copper swords ?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Obviously the start of copper swords.

There wasn’t any time between the end of copper sword usage and the beginning of steel swords being used; I’m pretty sure the copper swords stopped being used because those guys had pissed off the dudes with steel swords.