In the lifespan of the human species, horses are a relatively new thing. We only domesticated them between 4000 and 2000 BCE in Kazakhstan.
i bet people have been trying to ride every big animal just for shits and giggles since there have been people. because that’s just the kind of dumb thing people do. so a few millennia ago on the asian steppe, which is a boring place with not much to do, probably some people with no hobbies, who maybe were not having much sex and not good at crafts, got really into riding on horses. for the same reason that people get into frisbee golf or pole dancing: they’ve got energy to burn and it’s fun.
and then it turned out to be kind of not that weird after all and actually pretty useful, so it stopped being a goofy passtime and became a practical part of daily life.
that’s my theory.
imo, archaeologists and historians vastly underestimate the amount of innovation that results from people being young, hyperactive, and bored.
imagine young humans jumping on random animals for like a hundred thousand years of shits and giggles until all of a sudden we jump on one that’s like ‘hey…. this is pretty alright!’ and then we had horses
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You know school memes? Like memes within schools? Like that one teacher who always says a certain thing and everyone knows it, so it becomes a school meme?
I like how people are reblogging this with their school memes in the tags
So many questions…
Okay, but the cheesey touch is ripped straight from diary of a wimpy kid. whoever said they did that is a fucking poser.
Scientists invented fabric that makes
electricity from motion and sunlight.
To create the fabric, researchers at
Georgia Tech wove together solar
cell fibers with materials that generate
power from movement. It could be
used in “tents, curtains, or wearable
garments,” meaning we’d virtually
never be without power. Source
Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.
Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.
Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.
And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.
But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.
Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy
I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert.
The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.
Don’t forget that there are clear solar panels that could easily replace windows AND replacing all the windows of skyscrapers with clear solar panels would create thousands of jobs
