Homo Habilis
Apr. 16th, 2006 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI press a button. Morgan Freeman appears in front of me and says, "Shit". It's raining where he is. I press another button. He disappears.
I take this power for granted, but I don't have a clue how it works.
If our technology were to disappear tomorrow I wouldn't be able to do a thing to get it back. I don't even know how to smelt metal.
Maybe I'd have the wherewithal to go make myself a hand-axe, though I understand there's quite an art to knapping flint.
Left to my own devices I belong in the stone age- if that.
I have about as much aptitude for tool-making as a chimpanzee.
I take this power for granted, but I don't have a clue how it works.
If our technology were to disappear tomorrow I wouldn't be able to do a thing to get it back. I don't even know how to smelt metal.
Maybe I'd have the wherewithal to go make myself a hand-axe, though I understand there's quite an art to knapping flint.
Left to my own devices I belong in the stone age- if that.
I have about as much aptitude for tool-making as a chimpanzee.
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Date: 2006-04-16 12:09 pm (UTC)But I guess you don't really know what you're capable of until you're up against it. There was an item in the news the other day about a guy who got stranded in the Australian bush and survived for three weeks eating bugs and frogs and leeches.