cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32524920
I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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People don't seem to understand that complicated things don't just get invented out of nowhere. They almost always are the result of many steps along the way, each of which was useful in its own right.
And that's why it's common that multiple people invent the same thing at the same time. Like the theory of evolution, or the telephone. These things may be complicated, but all of the building blocks were created over a long time, and suddenly, their invention or discovery becomes inevitable.
Not to say that it never happens that people make large leaps, but it's rare.
To many "smart" people have stood up and taken the credit for hundreds of others and generations of work.
We have been sold and buy the idea that there a supermen out there that are beyond clever and capable when they are just the result of their environment and resources from others. And now history is looked at through that lenses looking for singulars where there is plural.
Like CEOs taking credit for all the work their engineers did.
coughMechaHitlercough
Elon musk invent mecha hitler to revive third reich in cyberpunk dystopia? Amazing /s
Same with evolution. "The eyeball is too complex to evolve as a whole unit!" Well, that's absolutely correct. First, start with a patch of light sensitive cells, iterate.
https://earthlife.net/nautilus-anatomy/#The_Nautilus_Eye
This is a great read; it posits that nautilus did have a mucous layer that is no longer present, but other cephalopods' complex eyes may have evolved from that
I love these little guys! I may have known before, but I learned the eye thing from this video yesterday actually (just to give credit where it's due):
https://youtu.be/1H5o13asiPA
No you’re wrong the eyeball is so complicated the only explanation is a divine being created us!!!
(Im being very sarcastic)
Well fuck that divine being, because squid eyes are better. I've had it up to here with the human god, I'm going to go start worshiping c'thulhu.
Even all those different little inventions had plenty of steps along the way, and almost all of them were viable during its time.
The greatest strength humanity has had to create ingenious machines wasn't intelligence.
It was time and manpower.
The first season of Connections did an exceptional job of illustrating that idea. Highly recommended!
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