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  1. Bartolomeu de Gusmão's experiments with balloons continue?

    Bartolomeu de Gusmão was a Luso-Brazilian priest who, among other things, made the first serious attempt to create a hot air balloon in 1709, more than seventy years before the Montgolfier brothers' successful experiments. Unfortunately, not only did his demonstrations fail to impress the...
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    DBWI: Anthropocene Era Goes Uninterrupted

    On January 1, 2000, the world was changed forever, when the Internet surpassed Kurtzweil's theories on technological progress and singularity and became sentient and self-aware. In the 20 years since that moment, our lives have all been changed in dramatic ways. Contrary to much of the pop...
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  3. WI: Native American ironworking

    I recently posted a thread asking why Native Americans never developed ironworking independently. Now I'd like to ask: what if they did?
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