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  • They may have been mentioned/featured in things that last longer than the bows. Statues, pottery, writing on stone tablets.

    Also I think they find skeletons with flint arrowheads in them sometimes too.

    So it can be pieced together from lots of small, even partial data points.

    But we find new stuff all the time that changes what we thought.

    They found a 4000 year old bagless vacuum cleaner the other day.

    That last one was a joke.














  • Infrastructure can be a real problem in some places.

    I’m currently on a mountain and since they upgraded to a hybrid satellite/cable system the speeds have skyrocketed. Laying cable/towers is just not viable, especially with dense rock peaks blocking line of sight.

    Also I have coworkers in Nigeria who lose internet multiple times a day (and often don’t have the bandwidth for a video call) but most of them have bitten the bullet and paid the high up-front cost to get starlink at home. And now can do HD video calls with zero interruption (unless they have power issues, but that’s a whole other thing).

    So I think there’s a lot of use-cases for sattelite, especially for people who aren’t considered worth the investment in non-sattelite infrastructure.

    It’s just unfortunate that yeah, space junk is going to one day (suddenly) be a massive problem.

    Edit: ah I may have replied to the wrong comment