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[–] 76 points 4 months ago (31 children)

How hard would it be to Dr stone a 120v live outlet?

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  • [–] 52 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    the dinos would get you first so very.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    not if I tell them that eating us will mess with history and cause unpredictable outcomes.

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    β€œWill it change the path of an asteroid?”

    β€œWell, probably not.”

    Chomp

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    maybe?

    After learning of new technology and a warning, they developed a space program.

    The present is no longer a primate civilizations fighting each other and destroying the planet, instead a saurian civilisation has spread through the galaxy.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

    there was an episode where they created a dynamo generator and batteries.

    1000004273

    that took them something like six months with many people helping.

    unfortunately dynamos(like above) and batteries work on DC current. that time machine works on AC.

    so you would need to do two things.

    1. create a mechanical DC>AC inverter that preferably is powered from the physical input of the dynamo
    2. create batteries in both series and parallel to ensure a 120v voltage is maintained at the required amperage.

    also consider that north American standards require electricity to run at 60hz. this means the AC signal flips the DC signal 60 times per second. creating a mechanical inverter would need to take into account the size of the circle for a complete rotation in 1 second as well as the speed at which the dynamo must spin in order to get 60 alterations per second. the rough formula would look something like: frequency = speed/(diameter*3.14). speed can be variable depending on the size of the copper wheel used as well.

    to sum everything up, for just the two people there, it's probably going to take them too long and they'll die from exposure or predators.

    get excited

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    someone tried making one of those, barely got any voltage. not enough for a US socket. :(

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    they probably needed to add more magnets, but that would have made it more difficult to spin. not only, the faster you spin it the more charged the plate becomes and more resistance you'll feel.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    they could use dinos rather than manpower

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think you underestimate the effort it would take to domesticate something that never had any interaction with intelligent beings.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    unfortunately dynamos(like above) and batteries work on DC current. that time machine works on AC.

    That might not be true, a lot of AC powered electronics just convert the input to DC, so if you're lucky you might be able to use DC. One issue is it probably also has a transformer to reduce the voltage, so you'd need to figure out what voltage it wants after the transformer and bypass it.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Assuming Dr. Stone is some kind of MacGyver regen:

    Two obvious approaches to me that I'll run through in high level: build a wind/watermill generators or potato/lemon batteries

    First thing you'll need to figure out for both is how to make some wire. That's going to require finding some metal ore and a hot furnace, and creating a few tools out of stone to work with it.

    The biggest difficulty with the former two is going to be finding some ferrous metal to turn into magnets. You can make a magnet without electricity by smashing the shit out of some iron as it's aligned with the earth's magnetic field, and it'll become a weak magnet. From there with enough wire, you can build a generator. With the sails of the mill, you can build that out of wood and foliage.

    For potato or lemon batteries, you're going to need a shitload, as they give you about a volt and a pretty tiny current, but theoretically you could figure something out that way with enough. I imagine some things may want to eat your batteries though

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Dr. Stone is an anime about humanity being thrust back into the neolithic and a genius kid developing a nation of science to save the world by speedrunning the technology tree.

    spoilersThey do exactly what what you mention!

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9679542/

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    how to make some wire. [...] finding some ferrous metal to turn into magnets.

    These two ingredients put our 120v dynamo really far up the tech tree from "make fire." Our intrepid time travelers are going to spend years trying to not be velocaraptor food and foraging for a meal themselves, all while making stupendous amounts of charcoal and prospecting for ore.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Oh don't get me wrong, our intrepid adventurers are going to have to spend a good chunk of time on this with no guarantee they live long enough.

    However assuming knowledge isn't a gap (given they already built a time machine), iron ore is fairly abundant in many areas of the world, and it's relatively straightforward to build a kiln that would reach the appropriate temperatures to smelt the iron into bloom (that can be hammered into workable iron)

    It'll take many, many years, but assuming they can avoid ending up as food, it doesn't seem impossible

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