By: Fred C. Dobbs
Do the gods know something that man doesn’t? (Probably.) Is this why Prometheus had to steal fire from them, for us? Our fate was secured back then it seems.
View ArticleBy: Fred C. Dobbs
In reply to Fred C. Dobbs. When there were relatively few humans on the planet, fighting for survival more than dominance, the fires started by random lightning strikes, and meteorites were something...
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Fire is incredibly useful, but we are moving to a post-fire civilization. If nothing else, fire is imprecise and inefficient. It makes more sense to shovel around electrical charge and use...
View ArticleBy: Joel Eissenberg
@Kaleberg, I read “A World Lit Only By Fire” many years ago. It is well-written lay history of Medieval Europe. It has nothing to do with the comparative thermodynamics of fire vs electricity. But I...
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