Damn you Einstein! : V - Skyrim

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:35 am

I find it endlesly amusing that his name sounds like hipocrasy

But could he have invented it if someone had not already domesticated a crop or an animal?

It's more of the singular importance of the thing. The plow itself is an invention that brought several different ideas together: you had the problem of turning over enough land so that you could plant enough crops to get a decent yield in poor soils, and a person (or even a family) wasn't enough to do the job. Of course we needed domestication of plants and animals first, but without the plow, civilisation at the scale we know today would be impossible.

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:42 am

Well, since time is a non linear abstract concept to begin with.
Why don't you do something to pass the time at a seemingly shorter interval?

Such as not focusing on the game itself,

» Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:59 pm

It's more of the singular importance of the thing. The plow itself is an invention that brought several different ideas together: you had the problem of turning over enough land so that you could plant enough crops to get a decent yield in poor soils, and a person (or even a family) wasn't enough to do the job. Of course we needed domestication of plants and animals first, but without the plow, civilisation at the scale we know today would be impossible.

Well, when you put it like that..., the plough will ultimately be responsible for world peace, as it enabled us to make more food than we need breaking down the barriers of racism needed to survive in prehistory.

Ploughs ftw