u/Pasta-hobo

A series of precion gears, springs, temporal tech, and of course a functional clock face that prevents formation of rifts, insulation from or at least dampening of temporal storms, and maintains local rift activity at calm, or perhaps a new stabilized or dampened state.

It should obviously be late/end game and have a sizable time and resource investment, but maybe more in the raw materials and tools needed to make it. Lock it behind a mechanical lathe or a spring steel alloy.

In my mind this would sort of be analogous to the beacon in other block game, where it's late/end game, but not so hard to make for late/end game players or made of Uber rare non-renewables that you'd only ever be able to have one of them. Just a sizable investment for places you spend a lot of time at.

Easily reproducible measurement tools, small pieces of useful materials, maybe even a couple of seeds, things of that nature.

The purpose of this thought experiment isn't to eliminate any survival challenge, but rather facilitate advancement alone. You can't just bring the whole 21st century with you. Let's not go "solar panels, modern Linux supercomputer with wikipedia backup, 3D printer and a PLA bioreactor." That's too easy. That takes all the fun out of getting stranded in the stone age.

Some ideas I have for items include

*a few grams of platinum/rhodium alloy for catalysis.

*a small but powerful magnet to build a basic generator(to make more magnets to build more generators)

*Ion exchange membranes(like the Rowow ones) for easy post-electric resource refining and useful electrochemistry.

*A calibration weight from which to derive other measurements(ideally metric)

*An analog thermometer.

What would you add?

I see casting filament advertised here and there, but I don't know if I absolutely need it.

I do feel like I should clarify that I intend to work on a shoestring budget with handmade upcycled equipment and salvaged materials, and they will largely be used to make functional components for more handmade upcycled equipment. So if it's just a loss in quality and detail, that'd be perfectly acceptable.

Let's say that tomorrow some guy working out of his garage has successfully invented a device that can produce small batches of bespoke ICs on par with the precision and component scale we had in the 1980s in mere hours. Doing all the masking, etching, and lithography steps inside itself automatically working from a predetermined digital circuit diagram. And he open sources it.

How would this change things?

I say this because, at the time of watching, I myself was unfamiliar with magnetic core logic. I was aware of magnetic core memory, but that was it. And everything else I've seen about making a computer from scratch would lead me to think that it would either end up being made of vacuum tubes only, or be cobbled together from pinball machine parts.

But ferrite cores. That's something someone who's actually familiar with the subject matter would come up with. Better than tubes and relays, didn't have long to settle in before transistors were invented.

And because you need computers to make integrated circuits(I think) they couldn't just rush ICs.

I'm also disappointed because I can't easily find examples of magnetic core logic online, but whatever.

I recall mention about how space habitats(once space industry is established) could be produced "dirt cheap" because the most expensive component would be the dirt, which you'd have to crank out in bioreactors.

I'm here wondering what the precise process of manufacturing dirt would entail. The specific chemical and biochemical processes, the chemical composition of the feed stock, things like that.

In principle I understand how we'd be able to make soil from rocks and water. In practice, I'd like to understand it better.

The magnetically conductive but non-electrically conductive ceramic material used in transformers, motors, and magnetic amplifiers, as well as a brief time in the computer science spotlight between tubes and transistors.

How do you make it?

You have a very recently deceased human in your possession. You didn't kill them, it's guilt free. You also haven't eaten for multiple days, and are unlikely to find any other food in the near future. You have to make this carcass last.

Luckily, you still have power and cookery, but the power might give out any day now. So instead of having hours to process the carcass, you now have days if you play your cards right.

What's the best way to make the most of this man's noble sacrifice to the greater good(you).

When I say appliances I mean like, fridge, freezer, stove, oven, crockpot, microwave, all that.

Now, I think the best way to make use of this would probably be making portable soup and saving the rendered fat. But that's my somewhat uninformed survival-cannibalism opinion.

I'd like to hear some other opinions on this brain teaser. (Don't- don't eat the brain. That's how you get Kuru.)

Also, for the record, no, I don't plan on engaging in cannibalism any time soon.

First off, we've had guns for over 600 years, they're a part of some religions. Yeah, a WW1+ reciprocating firearm is OP if you have the ammo to back it up, but that doesn't mean a bullet is intrinsically more lethal than a sword or an arrow.

It's not like you can just walk off getting stabbed or bludgeoned, but instantly drop dead when a lead slug impacts them.

A headshot with ANY weapon will probably kill you.

HP is not real (unless your world has canon HP). And even if it were, you could just have the guns do balanced amounts of damage.

The biggest argument for guns being unfair is them taking far less training to learn to utilize efficiently, but again that still mostly applies to WW1+ precision machined weapons. An old school revolver or musket still takes a lot of training to use effectively. And it's not like there AREN'T more traditional fantasy weapons that take very little training, from my understanding a Cutlass only takes 2 weeks to gain proficiency with.

You'll actually need functional Walkie-Talkie style radio, here. Some bare minimum crystal receiver and a spark gapper isn't sufficient. Talking over distance two-ways.

I think silicon carbide transistors might be easier, simply because they don't require the construction of a high vacuum pump or refining of tungsten to make the filaments. But I'm no expert.

I mean as in using cartoony cybernetics.

Being able to make yourself taller and stride longer by extending your legs with a belt-hitching-up motion. Extending your arms. Pulling out an eye and using it as a periscope.

How awesome would that be.

The Source Engine was originally built for the 2004 release of HL2, and as a result, later games tended to have a lot of vestigial HL2 assets and programming in it. For example, all the Weapons, combat mechanics, and even the airboat are all leftover in the original Portal and can be accessed with commands.

The HL2 holdovers are just something you get used to in source games. A little genetic marker, it's borderline charming.

But I'm wondering which source game has the LEAST amount of HL2 inside it! The fewest assets, the least unused or leftover mechanics, so on.

The melting point of tungsten exceeds the boiling point of steel.

It has such a high melting point that it's not really feasible to melt, usually things made of tungsten are pressed from tungsten power.

And while materials like tungsten carbide are definitely ceramics, alloys like high-speed steel contain quite a bit of tungsten.

So how do you alloy a metal with a melting point that exceeds the other metal's boiling point?

When the KoS was first working on the magnet, the villagers said something along the lines of the storm being a result of the KoS's sorcery angering the gods.

But that doesn't quite fit with everything else we know about the Villagers' history. They seem to have a fundamentally factually accurate religion, the 100 Tales. A tradition of wrote phonetic oral memorization carrying some light human history, useful general information, moral guidance, and occasional hints for potential depetrified moderners. The main religious aspect comes from the tradition of carrying on the tales their ancestors gave them that make up the backbone of their culture perfectly verbatim rather than any beliefs in actual magic.

Why do they believe in gods? Is this a new thing they came up with after Chrome's descent into sorcery? Are priestess lying about fake gods to throw people off the scent of the secret 1st tale for their founder's son's ears only?

What's the deal? This doesn't work at all with what we know about their culture!

I'm looking at these, and I get the appeal. It's a unique cipher that looks alien and is still perfectly readable and writable to the human eye and hand. I don't know how to read or write it, but I know how it works. It's a cipher for the English alphabet read counterclockwise.

But is this actually the language that they use in-universe? It seems so impractical.

One: the density. It seems like there's a lot of empty space in this cipher, but I may be mistaken. How would full paragraphs and pages look compared to their Latin alphabet equivalent?

Two: for the language of a technologically advanced species, this seems like it'd be incredibly difficult to reproduce text with it. I don't think you could make a typewriter for this language, and it seems like you'd need a CNC machine to make each plate for a printing press.

I've never watched the show, my only interaction with this is through looking at some examples of Gallifreyan online and cultural osmosis. But I'm here to learn!

WhyMan says that the chances of humans succeeding at replicating them was approximately zero, Senku states that zero and near-zero are VERY different, which is proven by approximately zero of the medusas handing themselves over to Senku.

Near zero, but not zero.

Like phonographic records, magnetic audio tape, film video, microfilm, and cyanotypes just to give an idea of the tech level I intend to work with. Somewhere between 1899 and WW1 within 5 years of initial cataclysm.

I'm not just asking for recommendations of useful information (not that I'd be complaining), but also tools to assist in the conversion and distribution of digital era media with limited digital tech(Linux-ing scavenged 32bit computers from POS terminals and jailbreaking old smartphones for example.)

A record lathe, a film camera pointed at a monitor, and an LED hooked up to the audio-out to make optical recordings isn't hard to achieve, even if those processes would need a lot of babysitting. But the actual dissection and preparation of the digital media for analog conversion would likely need some good general-purpose digital tools.

So I'd like to hear your recommendations and discussions thereof!