Stranded On An Alien World
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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How to Take a Paleolithic Culture to Modern Technology
In theory she could put a fair amount of time into teaching them basic metallurgy. Once you get the language down, it shouldn't be that hard to take any Paleolithic culture to Neolithic or early Copper Age just by showing them copper and pottery. She can tell them lots of the basics and also lots of goalposts like knowing whether or not a Teterium or Helium 3 was a better path to fusion reactors. But there's no guarantee for instance that plants actually have seeds - maybe they're all spores and rhizomes.
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