The Million Year Machine
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Why Stone Is a Better Investment Than Steel
i see most folks like switching up a house, or at least a room every so often remodeld. And i'm emphasizing this point because this has always been true. There was always a cost of making something more durable against time and way. Sometimes it just cost more in terms of othertimes, it breaks the usefulness of the item. Our ancestors didn't have steel for their mammoth hunting spears. A stone shaft might have made them last longer than a wooden one while sitting round,. waiting for use and not roding away. But it would have made them ultra heavy and brittle, thus not very useful for its job. We only see the stuff that was long torm and law time
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