Post ASLokqLHzKbaHYd9Iu by MissionFailure@poa.st
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 (DIR) Post #ASLhUVrpeBT0T27O7c by Groomschild@poa.st
       2023-02-04T21:57:52.325228Z
       
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       Thought of the day. The particular person who discovered iron I teleported to today world would become a great inventor like Tesla or the wright brothers. The reason I think this is because I can't imagine how it is accidentally possible to discover iron. Someone had to make it their life goal to smelt random rock together untill something useful came out
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLkXPoauBwUQagB6m by MissionFailure@poa.st
       2023-02-04T22:13:13.705511Z
       
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       @Groomschild Meteorites have been used since ancient times for iron. Did you mean steel?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLkXQETLydtiqmqRc by Groomschild@poa.st
       2023-02-04T22:32:00.481294Z
       
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       @MissionFailure Ancient people's had example of steam and electric use but you won't consider them to have discovered it because their version was non viable and ineffective.Making iron tools from star metal vs making it from scratch is a complete different process. Temperature need to be higher you got to find the right rocks and you also got to use some form of flux to purify the iron ore
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLokqLHzKbaHYd9Iu by MissionFailure@poa.st
       2023-02-04T23:05:21.013589Z
       
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       @Groomschild Explain your logic on 'discovery' then? With that argument route you're basically going into blast furnace invention territory being the discovery of 'iron' not the first recorded usages of it. If you want to argue the metallurgy aspect of needing flux and mixtures then why do you need the person who, by your argument, discovered iron? Wouldn't the person that created bronze be just as useful?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLokqxZgzEKCIXiym by Groomschild@poa.st
       2023-02-04T23:19:15.334009Z
       
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       @MissionFailure Well in this case the first person to work towards the discover and proliferation of the knowledge of the ability to create iron from oreNo one knows the one who first accidentally made steel but everyone know who made the Bessemer process.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLwq8LbGy2vCloFm4 by MissionFailure@poa.st
       2023-02-04T23:53:06.291061Z
       
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       @Groomschild Discovery being the transformation from secret(religious/other) processes to public knowledge? That is an interesting boundary line to choose.But why the 'discoverer' of iron specifically? Why not the discoverers of bronze, aqua regia, or electrolysis? Those also deal with metallurgy, collection of materials, and complex processing knowledge with trial and error.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASLwq8vP7qgazoYqa8 by Groomschild@poa.st
       2023-02-05T00:49:51.043643Z
       
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       @MissionFailure Yes I could have picked those to and they might have been equally brilliant out of their own time. I picked a discovery that a person couldn't just stumble across by accident