RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 17, 2023 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2023 at 12:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You left out the best part. The description wasn't detailed so much as it was cryptic. Copper sulfate solution is referred to as "peacocks neck". Which I think is brilliant.
I can quickly think up a bunch of reasons that a person would have copper, copper sulfate, and sawdust in an earthen jar - all of them purely agricultural, but I do wonder what the circumstances were that some goober put zinc in and gave himself a little jolt. History is littered with this sort of stuff, btw, near and far. We invented a way to recycle nuclear waste decades ago and there's enough used fuel in the us to light us up for a century, but there isn't a single reactor in the us that can use it and not a single company monetizing it. Bows were invented, abandoned, and rediscovered multiple times (and perhaps multiple independent times) throughout prehistory.
That's probably the fate of the various clay batteries of the world. It was cool, it was interesting...but..at the end of the day, it was time to go back to applying the copper sulfate poultice on the trees and vines. My first real job was in a small rapid prototyping shop, running the plating lines. I suspect that gold plating was the first practical application for electricity.
I can quickly think up a bunch of reasons that a person would have copper, copper sulfate, and sawdust in an earthen jar - all of them purely agricultural, but I do wonder what the circumstances were that some goober put zinc in and gave himself a little jolt. History is littered with this sort of stuff, btw, near and far. We invented a way to recycle nuclear waste decades ago and there's enough used fuel in the us to light us up for a century, but there isn't a single reactor in the us that can use it and not a single company monetizing it. Bows were invented, abandoned, and rediscovered multiple times (and perhaps multiple independent times) throughout prehistory.
That's probably the fate of the various clay batteries of the world. It was cool, it was interesting...but..at the end of the day, it was time to go back to applying the copper sulfate poultice on the trees and vines. My first real job was in a small rapid prototyping shop, running the plating lines. I suspect that gold plating was the first practical application for electricity.
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