How did we go from clicking rocks together to nukes? Seems like a pretty big leap in technology

How did we go from clicking rocks together to nukes? Seems like a pretty big leap in technology.

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fundementally, we are all made of cheese

>people trying to exterminate rest of world
>wondering how people came together to end that

Did we end it?

Aliens.

Aliens will be sad that humans are killing each other rather than entering space age

USA had the brightest minds in the world

Nukes are just clinking two uranium rocks together.

to be honest a nuke isnt much different from clicking rocks, we just use different "rocks"

and in the case of a reactor it's not even clicking, it's just putting the "rocks" next to each other and they do the rest

a nuclear reactor can occur in nature all by itself without human interaction, so we didnt really invent anything
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Yeah but we had to figure out that it was even feasible as a phenomenon, let alone weapons. How do you think about rocks simulating a reaction that voliatile while being able to experiment with any meaningful amount of uranium? There's a lot of layers there, like how do you find uranium in the first place? How do you guide the catalyse explosives energy to cause a critical mass state?

>we
Not "we". A few great minds did this. 99.8% of humans are just automatons including me and everyone in this chinese gutter oil enthusiast forum.

this

lol. No. We only came together to make the most destructive force in the world to insure dominance.
Wars don't happen save for proxy wars cause everyone would rather bend over to the guy with the biggest stick rather then get raped

>Nukes are just clinking two uranium rocks together.
this. fundamentally we haven't changed at all.
We are just ding the same thing in bigger proportions now.

Like how little sally goes from a 14 year old sucking her boyfriends dick to a full blown BBC gangbang train.
Same shit different scale.

it still boggles the mind how evolution favored brains in humans in such a drastic manner compared to other animals...
that being said you'd be wrong to think that other animals are dumb, many species also have a fair bit of intelligence but nowhere near enough for nukes.
that being said my opinion is that this puts humans under massive ethical responsability. since life involves suffering and death, how can we, from an ethical standpoint, keep bringing beings into in this world knowing they will suffer ? I was thinking about this last night, humans should stop reproducing until we solve life = suffering and death problem, it is the ethical thing to do. It is something that needs a solution, yesterday, thousands of years ago even, how can we just sit idle knowing there are billions of beings suffering right now? until we fix that problem we are essentially guilty of perpetuating suffering.

it's time to get off the internet, m8

100,000+ years is a lot of time for a species to figure shit out
What I always found intriguing is the fact that during the vast majority of our existence as humans there was virtually no advancement

>it's time to get off the internet, m8
what? you don't know any sluts?

every time I get off the internet, I see the same sluts IRL, at least the same sort of behaviour. Its like porn memes are slowly bleeding into real life

Don't worry aleins are here to make sure we don't nuke each other.

>it still boggles the mind how evolution favored brains in humans in such a drastic manner compared to other animals...
>that being said you'd be wrong to think that other animals are dumb, many species also have a fair bit of intelligence but nowhere near enough for nukes.
Human brains are weird, apparently recent research suggests most animals lack the ability to recall specific events, humans may have just lucked out in getting the right combination of brain hardware and a body capable of interacting with the world. Most apes lack precise control of their breathing and vocal cords, the needed brain functions for language and the ability to recall events. Birds are pretty good at language and problem solving but they don't have any tools as good as hands and flight imposed extreme limitations on brain volume, dolphins get fucked over by their bodies.
Most of the more intelligent animals are probably smart enough to compete with humans but they lack some physical brain hardware to make use of it.

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I do not think I have seen two more contradictory statements in a single post like this before.

Oh, don't misunderstand me, 100,000 years is a lot of time yet we used it so inefficiently. That's what intrigues me

What if... we somehow created a chimera with a dolphin's brain and a human's body...

In any case, it seems humans indeed got fairly lucky, which as I said puts us in a very unique position. We have the capability and the duty even to sort out of the mess called life... but instead here we are using our highly advanced tools to share anatomic pictures of each other and contemplate the aesthetics of felines.

>Oh, don't misunderstand me, 100,000 years is a lot of time yet we used it so inefficiently. That's what intrigues me
No time for science, tasks related to surviving occupied almost every ones free time. Migration to harsher climates and lower fertility may also have helped, warmer regions you can just shit out 20 kids and make them work in a field. Places where it is difficult to survive can't carelessly have as many kids, the ones they do have must be educated more so they can do more work with less people than elsewhere. At some point a feedback loop occurs and you get the industrial revolution.

does this mean that at some point world population will decline with fewer but smarter people ? and sexual activity will stop being, let's say, hormonally triggered, but more of a conscious choice of one out of many possible forms of entertainment?

I can see it happening already but I don't see the smarter people, yet, I often see things headed towards idiocracy.

>does this mean that at some point world population will decline with fewer but smarter people ?
Hard to say, it's predicted to peak relatively soon but there's not much pressure for idiots not to reproduce excessively. There's some theories the west may have accidentally genocided much of their idiots during the industrial revolution. Supposedly a large chunk of the ones that just had many kids that they didn't educate ended up having their offspring worked to death as child labor or killed in industrial accidents.

Stone tools first appeared over 3 millions years ago, user.

>Seems like a pretty big leap in technology.
They were extremely motivated.

And working on something powerful like that must have been super inspiring and fun for the engineers.

>What if... we somehow created a chimera with a dolphin's brain and a human's body...
In other news, the California coast rapist strikes again. Authorities still stumped as to how he keeps swiming into the ocean as a getaway method.
One officer said, "he must be an Olympic swimmer or something."

Yes, but not me. I have a soul.
Also fuck kikes and fuck niggers.

competition between two superpowers. with ussr gone us grew complacent and retarded

we clicked two rocks together really hard

Any alien civilization advanced enough will have gone through the same shit we have unless they are some sort of hive mind drone creatures.

i clicked you're mom's dick and mine together really hard

..stolen from Germany.

did you explode?

funny how they take credit for pushing aviation into the jet age when both germany and britain put jet fighters in service before them and they had to steal a bunch of german research data and engineers to figure out swept wings

>How did we go from clicking rocks together to nukes? Seems like a pretty big leap in technology.

That is because you have no understanding of science, nor scientific collaboration, no understanding of history, nor the idea of how technology is advanced by advances in toolmaking, nor do you have any idea of what it must be to be a genius working with other geniuses and being paid not to fail. In short, you are illiterate, lacking foresight and imagination, and you have not even bothered to try educating yourself beyond reading trash written by other morons.

its not about who was first, its about who did it best. nobody is claiming that the iriquois made jet fighters, stealing a clump of nazis to get an edge on rocket propulsion doesnt discredit the fact we funded all the research that made modern jet propulsion a reality.

USA rip off many ideas from other countries, thats nothing new. They keep forgetting that their power is actually built on the backs of other countries, without them they are nothing.

Look at China and electronics. Look at all the countries they invaded for "muh petrol!"

>and sexual activity will stop being, let's say, hormonally triggered, but more of a conscious choice of one out of many possible forms of entertainment?
Disgusting. I really like touching my dick and so does the rest of the world.
You will never take that away from us Yahweh

>There's some theories the west may have accidentally genocided much of their idiots during the industrial revolution.
Also the executions of criminals and violent dudes actually turned Europeans into more docile beings. That's why whites are the biggest pussies of them all.

into orbit my man

>did you explode?
all over her face.

I can't hear you over the sound of comprising the backbone of NATO power and 25% of the worlds GDP

>I can't hear you over the sound of comprising the backbone of NATO power and 25% of the worlds GDP
It's the price you pay for underhandedly taking over the world

>Seems like a pretty big leap in technology.
There were a lot of steps along the way.
It wasn't just clinking rocks together to nukes.

No it's because we're the modern equivalent of ancient egypt
We have fuckhuge oceans on both sides of us, meek eskimos above us and incompetent beaners below us. We have no immediate physical threat so we can invest into basically anything without consequence.

china and india will be the new economic superpowers if you don't stop them soon
there's just too many of them and your country is being destroyed from the inside

it is real life that has been bleeding into the memes

Welcome to Buddhism. Enjoy your stay.

>a booming industrialization of 2 billion people is sustainable
Chinas tech sector exists solely by stealing IP from south korea and the US to the point where we've stopped hiring them because we've caught them so many fucking times
India is literally a 3rd world country with no significant industry to speak of on its own territory
All it takes to break these countries, one of which is already the worlds-police enemy, is to deny them visas.

Several related species grew large brains, we just bred and consolidated. Dolphins and elephants have huge fucking brains too, we just have happen to have the largest ratio.

>humans should stop reproducing until we solve life = suffering and death problem,
You can't have one side of a coin.

That's not buddhism.

>contemplate the aesthetics of felines.
Toxoplasmosis

No, it's not as simple as that. You can't just bang two rocks together and wipe hiroshima.

youtube.com/watch?v=ufRzj89VoH4

But what if you bang them really incredibly fucking hard, like half the speed of light?

Dumb people don't know that they're dumb.

>How did we go from clicking rocks together to nukes?

Nukes work by essentially clicking rocks together, so it's not that big of a leap.

Then you must not use the words "just bang".

Just bang at sufficient velocity

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yeah, it's actually not
literally clicking rocks together still, it's just that this time these are hihg impact radioactive rocks

It's called the scientific method.

>literally clicking rocks together still, it's just that this time these are hihg impact radioactive rocks
Grug find strange heavy rock
Grug put more strange rock together
Grug find strange rocks very warm
Grug hair fall out
Grug angry Grug smash strange rock together.

I hope they fucking fire it to fucking kill me. But meh, i am not even worth it.

You're a retard

I'm a literal physicist/engineer working on reactor support systems.

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