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bronze age ships

::: spoiler show transcript andmaybegayer posts:
Bronze age ship discovered

look inside

made of wood

sophia-epistemia replies:
it's made of wood because all the bronze was used to make the age, not the ships. obviously

andmaybegayer replies:
'well duh' gif from American Psycho :::

(⬤ᴥ⬤) - 12mon

my favorite bronze age ship is Gilgamesh x Enkidu

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Taalnazi @lemmy.world - 12mon

Gay and real

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Miles O'Brien - 12mon

That's less of a ship and more of a "it's stated in the story itself"

I mean, personally I don't love any of my bros like I would my wife.... That's just me, but you do you.

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RachelRodent - 12mon

what do you mean that you don't brolove your bros and have bromariage with them and live a happy brolife

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TheBrideWoreCrimson @sopuli.xyz - 12mon

Darmok and Jalad, on the ocean.

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niktemadur @lemmy.world - 12mon

In my town in Mexico, there a street named "Calle Once" (Eleventh St.) that crosses an avenue and turns into "Calle Bronce" (Bronze St.).

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Hadriscus @lemm.ee - 12mon

calle once,... not gonna calle twice

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humanspiral @lemmy.ca - 12mon

Bronze age defined weapons, fyi. Not sure if ships used nails then, but wood joinery and wood was an allowed building material.

Joke explainer here all week.

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✺roguetrick✺ - 12mon

Pegged mortise and tenion caulked with bitumen from surface oil/tar. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Mortise_tenon_joint_hull_trireme-en.svg/1280px-Mortise_tenon_joint_hull_trireme-en.svg.png

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_joint used well into the iron age

Earlier were held together by rope like the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewn_boat or the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashed-lug_boat and caulked with vegetation. They were essentially "let's take a raft and engineer it into a boat."

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6e76bea2-b697-4071-9872-92471e88259e.png

Key point for both is you usually needed bronze tools to work wood like this. You could plane with stone axes easily enough to make a canoe but you couldn't really make a mortise and tenion and sewing a boat together was damn hard with stone and bone tools(though there were stone bow drills with flint bits and some pretty damn impressive users, it's how they made strung beads for early trade in the neolithic and late mesolithic).

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crusty @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 12mon

I half expected Saddam Hussein to be hiding in the red marked mortise

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(⬤ᴥ⬤) - 12mon

smh the weapons were made of sword not bronze

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DragonsInARoom @lemmy.world - 12mon

I still remember that age when I was a bronze atomic particle, the atomic particles just won't be still even in human form!

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nifty - 12mon

The sea people sunk it

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lugal @sopuli.xyz - 12mon

Sea people

Look inside

Bones

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Captain Aggravated - 12mon

Is there a sign up sheet to join the Sea People? I thinknI want to be a mysterious harbinger of destruction.

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lugal @sopuli.xyz - 12mon

I'm afraid you're too late, the casting phase is over

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Captain Aggravated - 12mon

I hear they're making a comeback tour sometime soon.

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lugal @sopuli.xyz - 12mon

I wish you all the best!

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world - 12mon

Obviously the bronze just sunk while the wood floated.

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introvertcatto - 12mon

Makes cents

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