Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when lightning meteorites strikes sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda
If you spent your days cooking with fire, and your nights watching it and warming yourself, you’d definitely start tossing anything you could find into it just to see what would happen. People did this every day and night for eons.
I wonder how they figured that out
Did molten lava touch sand and then they were like 😳
Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when
lightningmeteorites strikessand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from ZeldaWhen lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.
Tektites are formed when meteorites strike.
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Right. Now don’t do it again!
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Oh look there’s a whole Wikipedia page on it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working
I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.
Ha, nice reference
Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.
It’s like minecraft.
If you spent your days cooking with fire, and your nights watching it and warming yourself, you’d definitely start tossing anything you could find into it just to see what would happen. People did this every day and night for eons.
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