05-11-2010, 09:49 PM | #31 |
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Re: What is the new Low Tech like?
I strongly suspect you aren't cleared for that.
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05-11-2010, 10:35 PM | #32 |
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Re: What is the new Low Tech like?
It is also completely sealed. I'm not sure how people think they were going to get the electricity OUT of it. All of the modern reconstructions require modifications to the original in order to get it to function as a battery. We can't be certain that it was a scroll container but it definitely wasn't a battery.
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05-12-2010, 03:05 AM | #33 | |
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Re: What is the new Low Tech like?
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05-12-2010, 04:03 PM | #34 |
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Re: What is the new Low Tech like?
LT attempted to squash other myths also, such as ancient harnesses choking the horse, stirrups being responsible for the development of heavy cavalry, and the longbow being invented by the Welsh.
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05-12-2010, 04:15 PM | #35 |
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Re: What is the new Low Tech like?
You're not the only one who hopes that . . .
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05-12-2010, 04:31 PM | #36 |
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Re: What is the new Low Tech like?
-- Oh god yes. So many books on the subject of ancient technology seem to use sources that don't date past 1984 :) Hell I just read a book that claimed the Romans didn't know about the cogwheel!
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05-12-2010, 04:49 PM | #37 |
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Re: What is the new Low Tech like?
I'm sure anyone involved in writing or playtesting LT could come up with a long list of suggestions for what might go into such a book.
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05-12-2010, 06:24 PM | #38 | |
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Though I do think that the fact they look just like things which are undeniably scroll cases except they've been put into pots does pretty well clinches the identification. The lack of anciliary finds, like say wires, or anything actually electroplated, is a fairly strong indication against batteries too.
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05-12-2010, 07:51 PM | #39 | |
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05-13-2010, 12:00 PM | #40 |
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