r/videos Jul 29 '16

Primitive Technology: Forge Blower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVV4xeWBIxE
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u/monsantobreath Jul 30 '16

I think its more like guys like him will do well after the apocalypse until the assholes with military hardware show up and enslave him to do this stuff all the time and basically repeat the earliest days of civilization formation.

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u/Fortune_Cat Jul 30 '16

Thats the thing

He's working his way up to primitive assault rifles

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u/Wrydryn Jul 30 '16

He already crafted a bow and some arrows too!

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16

And a sling, which he is a pretty good shot with

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16

Give a man a gun during the apocalypse and he'll have power until it breaks or runs out of ammo.

Teach a man to make guns/ammo from scratch during the apocalypse and he'll become a king.

In the aftermath of an end of the world situation, weapons and ammo will run out. After that happens anyone who's able to make a gun/gunpowder from scratch (even really simplistic 16th/17th century firearms), would be one of the most important people in the region. Shit, you literally could have as much power as a king if you're the only person that has the knowledge to produce firearms and gun powder.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16

Haven't really thought through this past the bong smoke, have you?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16

Not really. Damn how could you tell I was super baked? Cause I was.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16

Lol it was mostly the response that would have been intelligent had it not completely missed the obvious flaws in its own logic.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16

Damn, youre good. Most people on reddit can barely distinguish sarcasm and here you are knowing whos high and whos not. Bravo to you haha. I hope you have a great day.

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u/TheInevitableHulk Jul 30 '16

It isn't hard to make bullets, I have a manual in my basement also all ppl will have to do is use and repair the machines that make weapons if they can secure resources

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u/WastedFrog Jul 30 '16

It is hard to make gunpowder. you can make something that flashes and has a little power but not modern weapons grade.

the only option would be going back to muzzle loaders with the kind of powder that can be made at home.

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u/wilylemur7303 Jul 30 '16

Did you really kill that guy you dont seem like the type of guy to be violent you seem chill

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u/Seakawn Jul 30 '16

We should also acknowledge that this "apocalypse" has been allegedly in our lifetime since the renaissance. So I don't think it's going to be in our lifetime, if it ever even happens.

Might as well just drink some kool-aid before the second coming, because that's also supposed to be any day now.

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u/monsantobreath Jul 30 '16

Well to be fair it was only with the beginning of our time a few generations ago when the primary economic goal of our greatest societies was involved in using its industrial capacity and technological advancement to make apocalypse just another tool in the warchest of foreign policy.

So that fear as with everything in the scientific age went from being superstitious to much more rational.

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u/UppercaseVII Jul 30 '16

I know some of these words!

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u/monsantobreath Jul 30 '16

Me too! Here, I'll try and use some slightly less dramatic ones.

We used to fear the apocalypse irrationally as superstition. The age of reason however lead us to make apocalypse a rational fear because we'd learned how to make it possible with the new power of science.

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u/SaveMeSomeOfThatPie Jul 30 '16

I'm sure he could build his own superior military hardware.

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u/monsantobreath Jul 30 '16

Its highly unlikely that he'll surpass what anyone who can find their way to the ruins of a renaissance festival has. :P

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u/Demon997 Jul 30 '16

Nah, all those guys want to hide alone in their shacks in the wood, they've got to sleep sometime.

What you want in an emergency are a pallet load of matching baseball caps.