Persistence hunting; you don’t have to be accurate, you just need to tire out your prey.
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How are you this dumb?
Don’t you know? Smith & Wesson was founded in 100000 B.C.
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It’s an incredibly well made and reliable wooden spear but it costs ridiculously more than other wooden spears that are 95% as good.
And since they’re primarily concerned with big military contracts for wooden sticks, they make it clear that the persistence hunter market is one they actively disdain…but we still line up to buy their wooden sticks.
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Just wait until those weird hairless apes with back issues learn how to fling those pointy sticks really fast with twine and wood
Just wait until those same weird hairless apes with back issues learn how how to harness a particular mixture of charcoal, brimstone, and poop crystals.
To make poop knives?
Not quite. Guano was historically a source of saltpetre…
For real?!
TIL! Thanks for explaining.
For real?!
Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano
Though its main use was as fertilizer, Guano was also sought for the production of gunpowder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_nitrate#From_caves
Major natural sources of potassium nitrate were the deposits crystallizing from cave walls and the accumulations of bat guano in caves. Extraction is accomplished by immersing the guano in water for a day, filtering, and harvesting the crystals in the filtered water.
*organized bipedal apes with pointy sticks
You run fast but they don’t get tired.