User talk:Josh Parris/Bootstrap
The main focus of this project should be tool-making. Human beings have not significantly changed since the Stone Age, from an evolutionary perspective in any case. We have better tools and the knowledge of how to use them.
How do you make a chisel? You need to make the tools to make the tools to make the tools to make the tools to make the tools to (repeat about 50 times).
For example - to make a really useful chisel, you first need blacksmithing. That means you need tools to find, excavate, and melt / refine ore. You need blacksmithing techniques, a forge, fire, anvil, hammer, etc. etc. etc.
Starting with Fire is a good idea, but you need to take very, very small steps if you want a random set of humans dropped on a colonial planet with literally nothing but a static copy of wikipedia to have a working computer within a generation or two.
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[edit]I would like to read more about the primary source. Please add references to your user page. Also, your user page does not mention who you are, so.... Thanks, and here is a WikiCookie for all your great work!
