B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for November 13, 2021

Wow! Just think of all the “modern” things they invented back then. It boggles the mind.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.

It will make logging so horrible that mankind will abandon it.

One time I had an invention that had 88 uses.

He’s kind of using a cannon as a cannoff here.

When all you have is a cannon, everything starts to look like a target.

Now he needs to invent chain shot, that will take the trees down….

Reminds me of an article I read many years ago in OMNI magazine about using nuclear bombs to create channels to divert water from the Great Lakes.

Use Number One, of course, was storming the Capitol Building

So chop enough of the tree to meet your needs, but leave enough of it so that it can grow back in a couple of decades?

Seems the term kill something originated very early.

Somewhere a tree hugging environmentalist is weeping. :.(

Lost Wax or Sand Cast now that is the real useful Invention !

So that’s what happened to the Ardennes. (It’s getting harder and harder to make WWII references that will be understood)

WWII Trivia: The Seabees on Guadalcanal would take 105mm Howitzers and fill them 100’ lengths of chain. They would fire them at the trees to cut down several at a time.

He must have made early gunpowder from ground up dinosaur bones

The first weapon of mass destruction

There is no problem ‘man’ can encounter that cannot be solved by the judicious use of high explosives. (Alfred Nobel or that guy on “The A Team”? I don’t know.

Best use that I have seen for a cannon outside of war…….

And I always thought the Chinese invented gunpowder?

When piston engines were first invented, the cylinders were bored with machines originally designed for making cannon barrels. Many of the best inventions have had their origins as warmaking technology.

♪ I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK – I sleep all night and blast trees all day ♪

I always thought a “paint bomb” would be a good quick way to paint a room, until I saw it in an episode of “Mr. Bean”

What we have here is multiple inventions: 1. Blast furnace, 2. Cast Iron, 3. Boring lathe, 4. Mined sulphur, 5. Refined potassium nitrate, 6. Charcoal (for the blast furnace and the gunpowder)

And, artillery is born! Aberdeen Proving Grounds beware! My X and his younger brother were both born when their father was a second Lt. stationed there.

Points for creativity. But BIG minuses for the eventual usages.

His most useful invention is the iron forge he made to create the cannon with.

was that a tennis ball or a cannon ball