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

There’s a lot of things like that where some technology or other is really, really, really old, but they didn’t have the right combination of materials, worksmanship, and material needs for it to take off like it did at some other place or time in history.

Haha, like fusion! :deeper-sadness: