Re: Fire (pine knots)

Michael Hearne:
Mario Petrinovich:
Pine knots are full of resin. It wouldn't be hard tu imagine a
monkey breaking off a branch of pine, exposing resin to the sun. If that
monkey was in water, the sun can magnify through water drops, and ignite
resin. -- Mario

It is easier for me to imagine a hominid breaking rocks to make tools,
and suddenly finding a pair which produced sparks. I had a pair when I
was a kid, one gray flint and a hard red one that I can't identify
today. I burned holes in my trousers rubbing those rocks together.

If I had carried out my fascination near a pile of tender, I could have
been the inventor of the first man made forest fire. So, I think the
question is not when did the monkey discover fire, but when did he learn
to control it?

Frenkly, I don't think a monkey would play with rocks in a rain
forest. When chimps find some rock, they carry it a long way. Because, where
will you find another? Savanna looks no better place to find rocks. But,
you are right. We really are stone using animals (as well as fire using).
But we didin't play with rocks in rain forest. A sea rocky coast is another
thing. There there is almost nothing EXCEPT rocks.

Did we eat meat before we had fire? I have tried several recipes that
contained raw meat, but I neither liked the taste, nor did those dishes
digest well. I would suggest that we were probably eating fish before
red meat, since it can be readily eaten raw without ill effects (at
least salt water fish). Michael

We are salting food. Other animals are eating salt, too. But they
are
licking salt. Try to salt your apple. You wouldn't do it. Because it ALTERS
the taste of food you like to eat so much. And you don't like salt apples.
Why would you salt your apples? To satisfy salt hunger? But, you do this
like you always did this. By licking salt. If you are thursty, you don't
soack apple into water, and than eat soacked apple. No, we started to salt
meat because we always ate salty meat. We are eating everything (not only
meat) salty, everything except the food we ate before we went to coast,
fruits.
Everything else is just a fairy tale. I am not quite sure what occam
rasor is, but definitelly what I am saying is more logical, more natural
progression, than invinting some fairy tales which are invented to
"explain" the way we are living. -- Mario


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