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110 sats \ 18 replies \ @Lux 31 Oct \ parent \ on: Which is your most important human right? Politics_And_Law
Arms don't need registration
A revolver made from solid meteorite and gold
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It went to the uae, right?
How did they even find a meteorite that didnt have any imperfections?
Seems fake.
Or maybe just for decoration?
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That's actually pretty common. The earliest iron working that we know of used meteorites, because they're pure enough to work without needing advanced metallurgy.
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Did a pharaoh have a dagger made out of meteorite?
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Looks like it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron
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The first iron weapons were forged in the Bronze Age and clove those bronze swords asunder in battle.
One of the first steps in the arms race.
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If we think about history, people were really dumb those times, killing each others for all kind of stupid things.
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I think we are still doing it, in spades! You can look around the world and see it going on right now.
Sadly, this is an evergreen insight about history.