I lived with a tribe of Amazonians that made a much simpler version of this. They used it when moving from place to place since they were highly nomadic.
Looks like they skipped two ingredients there. Charcoal, sulfer and potassium nitrate AKA saltpeter make gunpowder. Not sure what the other thing is, could be brown sugar which is used sometimes to lower the ignition temperature but it also slows down the burn and makes it more smokey.
in the correct proportions and mixing they make gunpowder, but in other proportions you can get different results. It's sort of like how there's so many different breads that are different combos and preparations of water, flour and yeast.
I think that calling it the only way to hold fire for thousands of years is a little off. People all over rhe world needed to be able to carry fire around, and came up with many ingenious ways to do it.
I had thought I remembered there being an even older version of this, and it turns out I was right, so please enjoy the results of my ten minute rabbit hole down wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomes_fomentarius
1potsie
I bet his name is Grasshopper!
AshesVonDust
NGL I saw one of these in a Chinese film recently and thought it was a fantasy element lol
GhostofCharlieKirk
Definitely soaked in wood
philmoregraves
I had a dream last night that I made one of these
Heelcat70
And they named it "Zippo"
TheBluntSoldier
Oh wow i am always so amazed by these well known and practiced and thoroughly documented long lost technologies.
Imjurbro
Good ol’ CCP slop.
RadiDaddy
drone6040
I lived with a tribe of Amazonians that made a much simpler version of this. They used it when moving from place to place since they were highly nomadic.
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
Careful trying to reproduce this. Get the recipe wrong and you've made a pipe bomb.
IakobZ
ThisDeservesMoreUpvotes
Scobragon
Fuck these one word subtitles...
JimFromMarketing
I disagree
ChelVanin
Studies have shown it improves reading speed.
bakerguy1337
And fuck those insta cuts between every breath.
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
Clankers don't breathe
JunkMonk
and the AI voice
Margrave9000
CCP propaganda, freshly reposted.
0x000000F3
The subtitle sucked, but this is the content I’m here for
phoony
CasionProjects
More AI garbo on main
DidItForScience
Looks like they skipped two ingredients there. Charcoal, sulfer and potassium nitrate AKA saltpeter make gunpowder. Not sure what the other thing is, could be brown sugar which is used sometimes to lower the ignition temperature but it also slows down the burn and makes it more smokey.
morgrimmoon
in the correct proportions and mixing they make gunpowder, but in other proportions you can get different results. It's sort of like how there's so many different breads that are different combos and preparations of water, flour and yeast.
DidItForScience
Yeah sure, I'm just talking about me seeing ingredients and them not mentioning. And my guess is because it makes gunpowder.
TrainsDeluxe
I think that calling it the only way to hold fire for thousands of years is a little off. People all over rhe world needed to be able to carry fire around, and came up with many ingenious ways to do it.
StevieTheAussie
I’d say that’s why they specified “in your pocket”. Used a specific parameter that only this technique fulfilled.
HypoMix
Yeah, indigenous Australians knew of and used various slow burning hollow plants and plant parts. I'm sure every culture had something similar.
Yupurineutah
So the first lighter wasn't fueled by refined petroleum? Who wood have thunk it!
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SirSage
Hoo- I mean, uh...he is crazy. (I dont want him to burn my house down or wait for me in a parking lot)
actualnarwhal
I had thought I remembered there being an even older version of this, and it turns out I was right, so please enjoy the results of my ten minute rabbit hole down wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomes_fomentarius
actualnarwhal
Tl;dr people used a weird ass mushroom to do pretty much this, except some of them probably boiled it in pee, fun stuff 👍🏻