So, we did start the fire
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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WE JUST STARTED A FIRE
IT STARTED BURNING EARLY THIS MORNING
WE JUST STARTED A FIRE
WE TRIED TO LIGHT IT AND COULDN'T HIDE IT
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I’ve been thinking about this comment for two days this is so good
It in fact had not always been burning, certainly not since the world’s been turning
It could be argued that our prehuman ancestors were using fire already, and we imherited the problem, and didn't actually start it.
H erectus + fire + evolution = H sapiens
Thanks grandpa
so some fuckin monkey was fuckin with fire and now i gotta go to work, what a dickhead
Sins of the father
IIRC the leading hypothesis is humans discovered how to make fire before we were "human." Or in other words, we were more like chimps and bonobos when we discovered fire. It may have been what led us down the path we are on.
This article is talking about humans using fire to manipulate their environment, rather than just using it to cook or keep warm. That has been going on far longer than Homo Sapiens have existed, but using fire for controlled burns was thought to be much more recent than this study suggests.
Yeah I read ~~theory~~ scientific papers
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Lighting those joints