Flint
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When the heap of pyrites had been entirely reduced by fire, the result of the operation, consisting of sulphate of iron, sulphate of alumina,
flint
, remains of coal, and cinders was placed in a basinful of water.
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Archaeological remains show that about 14,000 years ago, humans were already using sharpened
flint
to remove bits of rotten teeth.
It goes like this, "Comedy is the clash of one point of view colliding with another, one sensibility with another, high with low, East with West, light with dark, old with the young; a collision of two worldviews of two civilizations; and like two pieces of
flint
being struck together, a life-saving spark is given off and with this spark, you can light a fire."
I mean, I think there's a kind of weak form of technological determinism that is quite plausible, like, you're unlikely to encounter a society that uses
flint
axes and jet planes.
And apparently he has
flint
in his fingertips to light these rockets.
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