It’s a common misconception that the planet as a life bearing vessel is in danger - it is not. It’s just that human civilization is probably fucked (and thousands of other species).
Some scientists warn 70% of species could go extinct within the new few centuries which would massively dent the ecosystem, also the rates of extinction are massively high. All bets are off at that point. Chaos theory will reign supreme.
I agree that life will probably continue but I also wouldn’t be massively surprised if we fucked it so bad that most major ecological systems are basically gone. Maybe some ultra persistent bacteria and algae will remain and start again.
Even if you studied it, the answer boils down to “magic”.
You take these magnets, and move them around these long snakes of metal (because electrons can move easily through metal) and that makes the electrons in the wires move.
Okay, why does moving around a magnet near metal make something inside it move?
Well there’s something we call the “Lorentz force” which basically pushes a magnetic thing in a specific way if you move another magnetic thing around it
It’s all attraction between opposite charge and repulsion for the same charge, even magnetism. Magnetism is just charge in another gauge.
What I mean by this is from our perspective we view a moving charged particle as emitting a magnetic field, but if you were to move along with the particle at the same speed it would be observed as being at rest and emitting an electric field.
I mean, from this thread it shows people kinda remember stuff from those classes, but are missing a lot. Which is understandable, people left school and didn’t use that information, it doesn’t make you stupid.
But then you think, oh yeah! I remember how to make electricity, I need copper and an iron rock! So you spend all this time trying to manufacture some relatively thin copper wire, iron would probably be a little easier to find, wrap it around and then you’re like… Okay what went wrong? Annnnd you can’t remember you actually needed a magnet and you gotta spin it.
Then do you remember learning how to store it? Connect it to anything useful? Maybe kinda, but extrapolate the first situation to every topic ever and that’s what you’d get, half baked ideas that you don’t really remember the specifics of. And the specifics really actually matter lol.
It isn’t so hard really, to make electricity even in the olden days.
A dynamo is just a copper wire with a magnet spinning inside.
Making a copper wire you can accomplish by having a hole at the bottom of a kiln that drops directly into a big vat of water. Or even just drawing a line in the sand and pouring it in there.
Getting your hands on a natural magnet might pose more problems, but ultimately those are found in nature. So they should have already been dug up by someone.
Using the electricity usefully is harder. Since creating a light bulb needs access to gasses. What could we even use the electricity for?
If you can make a dynamo, you can make a motor. Now, you aren’t about to create Tesla. But there’s plenty of things back in the day that could benefit from being motorized.
Could you also do ac/dc conversion to make the electricity useful elsewhere? I’m guessing charging and transporting primitive batteries won’t be able to fulfill any useful purpose at all.
You can create light with electricity with two carbon rods to make an arc light. It was literally the first electric light source and in widespread use for a long while, along with incandescent bulbs.
I’m indigenous Canadian and I speak my traditional language of Ojibwe Cree.
The word moose is a native word. In my language the plural for two or more of this animal is …
Moo-suk
I like mentioning this whenever I hear people debating in English about what the plural of moose is. It drives them nuts because no one accepts this answer because no one speaks Ojibwe Cree.
To expand on that … the same thing didn’t pan out for the word ‘goose’ … the english plural being ‘geese’ … because ‘goose’ is an old indo-european word that has thousands of years of history
We call a Canada Goose … niska
and the plural to niska is … niskuk
btw … I really love this community, it’s completely stupid, off the wall and a breath of fresh air in a wilderness of chaos and hatred … I grew up in a traditional Native family and my dad was a hunter and trapper who spoke only Ojibwe-Cree … he saw how interested and excited I was to watch Star Trek TNG in the 90s and said he was amazed that people were able to travel through space like that … I had to tell him that it was all a made up show and it wasn’t real. It may have burst my bubble but it also made me realize just how great the show and acting was.
Star Trek really does bring everyone together! It’s a fantastic series and I wish more people were into it. My parents sort of programmed a lot of really bigoted, racist, sexist, horrible things into my brain as a child. It genuinely was Star Trek that made me realize that my parents were wrong and kinda horrible people. I do not know what kind of person I would be without Star Trek but… Well actually I’ma quote Riker on this.
lol … I get so used to seeing you around and associating you to Star Trek memes … I thought we were in Risa community before I realized we were in the Lemmy Shitpost
“Live, Long and Prosper … you filthy animal” … probably by some half breed Vulcan / Human from the early 22nd century.
I was going to mention but I wasn’t sure if it was in reaction to my username or what. Yeah I post… a lot. Sorry about that lol
Also I approve. If I had someway to twist “peace and long life” into a Home Alone reference I 100% would. Alas my brain today has decided to have a case of the dumb.
My work gives out a parking pass to staff, which is a sticker on the windshield. Once I traded cars with a friend because of gas mileage for a long trip, and forgot their car doesn’t have the parking pass. So I got a fine for parking at work. Just a chat with management cleared it up but I could imagine a similar situation
But I’m very sure a couple of more minutes of pathetic whinging will convince the mother of my beloved (who won’t speak to me in the phone) that I’m hubby material, and will convince her to date me.
… it’s a very silly love song. Maybe you’d retroactively call it a simp song.
There must be a modern day song about a boy buying digital tokens in twitch or OnlyFans to convince her of his admiration.
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^above is a reconstruction of a shower thought I just had
If you could find a jeweller and had an understanding of basic electrical systems, you could probably get a rudimentary capacitor and engine going. From there, who knows what you could do. Maybe even lightbulbs.
You could fill it with co2 .put an animal bladder on the mouth of a clay bottle where something is fermenting like wine or beer. The yeast will produce a fair ammount of c02 and fill the bladder. Use the bladder to fill the bulb. It wont last long but it will be longer than just air
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