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Okay imma need an explanation for the middle bottom and bottom right panels, what are they?
Also love the idea that magic is just science we haven’t explained yet. Most of us would be burned s as witches in the past based on our current knowledge
Solely based on knowledge, yes. In practice most of us wouldn't be able to create a half working lamp from raw materials.
"I call it...FIRE!!! Oh. Shit. You already have that. I don't really know any others."
This is also why at see inventions emerge almost at the same moment from people who don't share knowledge.
A lot of invention is material science.
Even if I know enough to make a modern computer from raw materials, I'm not going to find the necessary industry to refine those raw materials correctly in the 1400s.
Well, let’s see.
Suppose, we want to make an electric lamp (an oil lamp would be too easy, you just need a vessel, fuel and a wick).
Bill of materials
Generator magnet a piece of iron to be magnetized copper for wires some more iron for the armature some more scrap metal/wood/leather to make a crank and structure to house the whole thing, leather for making a pulley system for gearing Alternatively, make a lead-acid battery, or some other type of galvanic battery, depending on the available materials.
Lightbulb carbon rod for the filament (pencil lead would be ideal but I’m pretty sure charcoal will do) glass tube for the bulb itself Some copper for the connectors
Soldering Hot piece of metal or flame Pine rosin for flux Lead, tin or silver
Sprengel pump A bunch of glass tubing Mercury
Hot flame for soldering/glass blowing* Calcium carbide Water Tubing Nozzle Tin can as a reaction vessel
Equipment A forge
*no idea how I would solve the pressurized oxygen problem. Maybe instead of a tin can, use a pressure vessel for the reaction and use an old carburator (hooked up in reverse) to draw in air with the acetylene. Also, a nozzle that can take the heat… clay maybe?
Also, I just pulled this out of my ass and would probably kill myself trying to build something that wouldn’t work in the first place. So yeah, build an oil lamp, torch or candle and try not to burn everything down. It would still be a half-assed attempt at a lamp. Don’t sell yourself short.
Middle bottom is the demon core, an extremely radioactive orb:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
And anyway, there's a new physics demon now:
3.5" in diameter, and 14 pounds. That seems very odd.
Uranium is very dense.
But iridium is twice the density of lead!
The middle bottom is the demon core, and I guess the bottom right is a reactor of some kind
The Cherenkov radiation gives it away that it's a reactor of some sort.
I haven't seen this before, unless it's a nuetron breeder.
The bottom right one looks like a mercury arc valve: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve It reminded me of an old Phoyonicinduction video https://youtu.be/QY6V2syGnZA
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I have a habit of calling things 'technological magic' because that's what it is in my mind. The fact that the universal laws and logic exist in such a way to allow things like computers or the huge complexity of living things and AI matrixies is nothing short of miraculous when you think about it.
In terms of the bottom middle: that's the demon core. Science Thor (a.k.a. Kyle Hill) does awesome videos on nuclear and radioactive stuffs which can explain it better than I could.
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samw, what is the bottom right??
Mercury arc valve, an old method of converting AC electricity to DC.
Cherenkov radiation. Look it up on youtube for a video of a experimental reactor making some.