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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I wonder how they figured that out

Did molten lava touch sand and then they were like 😳

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when ~~lightning~~ meteorites strike~~s~~ sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

When lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.

Tektites are formed when meteorites strike.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am sorry for insulting your people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Right. Now don't do it again!

[–] threelonmusketeers 4 points 6 months ago

Hi! You included a link which is really difficult for mobile users to tap. Here is a much longer and more tappable link.

I am not a bot, and this action was performed manually. I recall that there was a bot for this on Reddit. Does an equivalent exist on Lemmy yet?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Oh look there's a whole Wikipedia page on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass

Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ha, nice reference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It’s like minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

If you spent your days cooking with fire, and your nights watching it and warming yourself, you'd definitely start tossing anything you could find into it just to see what would happen. People did this every day and night for eons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think people just experimented a lot. Try enough random things, you're bound to come across cool chemistry every once in a while. If they figured out how to make really hot fire, that opens the path to "let's try making various things really hot to see what happens".

Of course, I know basically nothing about [pre]history or human development so I could be way off