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Less theoretical every day.
This is a good book on the topic. https://t.co/usj7oSDxUo
“What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch? Once you’ve scavenged what you can, how do you begin producing the essentials? How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines, or get metal out of rocks?”
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Suppose you took 10,000 optimally selected people and dumped them into a region that had adequate forests, fields, and mountains for mining iron and coal, all in a 100 mile radius They start with only 1 season of food supplies How fast could they bootstrap to tech circa 1900?
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