• Primitive Technology - tiled roof hut from scratch
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This more than anything makes me think "Damn, humans are such impressive animals." Even when we just had simple Earth materials and stone tools, humans figured out how to do this shit.
Didn't even realize how long this must have taken until I noticed his hair getting longer.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;48619750]Why so? Huts could be built by children while taught by elders. There's nothing that a child under guidance couldn't do here for the most part. Not everyone in a tribe is out hunting/gathering all day. Someone needs to stay and protect the weak, look over stuff and so on. These people could be building while nothing is going on.[/QUOTE] Hunter-gatherers generally didn't stay in one area for long, and even the children would be out gathering food - not to mention that there probably wouldn't be too many elders. And would the children be able to do it efficiently? There's a reason why places like the fertile crescent were hotspots for technological innovation - food production has always been a major barrier.
[QUOTE=xamllew;48624302]Didn't even realize how long this must have taken until I noticed his hair getting longer.[/QUOTE] I like to believe that he could do this in a week or so if it was all he did. But this like his hobby. He probably wears a suit and sits at a computer in an office and when he gets home he strips off and runs off into the jungle and no one knows what he's doing or where he's gone.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;48626941]I like to believe that he could do this in a week or so if it was all he did. But this like his hobby. He probably wears a suit and sits at a computer in an office and when he gets home he strips off and runs off into the jungle and no one knows what he's doing or where he's gone.[/QUOTE] One of them took 100 days to build.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;48626941]I like to believe that he could do this in a week or so if it was all he did. But this like his hobby. He probably wears a suit and sits at a computer in an office and when he gets home he strips off and runs off into the jungle and no one knows what he's doing or where he's gone.[/QUOTE] I like to imagine he just goes off the radar for months at a time and he gets in trouble for not paying his taxes but they can't find him to reprimand him.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;48627079]One of them took 100 days to build.[/QUOTE] Bare in mind that about a third of it he wasn't able to do anything due to bad weather.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;48627891]Bare in mind that about a third of it he wasn't able to do anything due to bad weather.[/QUOTE] Bear* in mind
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;48627891]Bare in mind that about a third of it he wasn't able to do anything due to bad weather.[/QUOTE] Bare is wanna when you moon someone, or bare your stiff nipples to your friends to show how aroused they make you feel.
I wouldn't even be surprised if the guy built the camera and the tripod himself as well.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;48633038]I wouldn't even be surprised if the guy built the camera and the tripod himself as well.[/QUOTE] That's no potato, either.
I hope the bee hive works out so he can have a larger supply of honey.
I wonder if he will ever develop more precision tools from scratch.
I wonder how long it would have taken someone to build a house if that was their only real focus apart from getting food. What happened if the population suddenly grew by a large amount (let's say five babies were born in the space of a week so they would all be adults at the same time) and there weren't enough houses for all the people? Did everybody work together to build houses or was it a 'do it yourself' thing? I wish we could find the answers to questions like this but without a time machine, early human civilisation will just be a mystery forever.
It'd be pretty hilarious to see a behind-the-scenes shot of all this. One guy whacking away at a house with stone tools while filming himself with a HD camera :v:
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;48637438]I wonder if he will ever develop more precision tools from scratch.[/QUOTE] This is an interesting question. It's technically possible to get sub-millimeter precision and extremely flat surfaces, as well as near-perfect circles, by rubbing stones together in such a way that any surface defects get grinded away and by using clever geometry tricks.
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;48637438]I wonder if he will ever develop more precision tools from scratch.[/QUOTE] He'll have to develop his own standardized system of measurement before that. He could do it fairly easily, just hang a weight from a piece of string and swing it. Adjust the length of the string until the period is one second, and the length of the string should be just under a metre.
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