Quote from: Preddie-nokas on Jun 22, 2022, 02:49:59 PMGirly hero in this movie is not a scientist ...
A lot of "primitive cultures" were full of scientists. Not in the white-coat, scientific-method kind, but the kind that did a lot of
observation, noticed
cause and effect, noticed
patterns and drew conclusions and
learned. A lot of "scientists" in the modern day study the knowledge and lore of these cultures to learn what they learned.
In Australia, for example, the indigenous Australians knew that you had to burn the bush regularly. If you don't, then the fuel load becomes too high, and when it inevitably catches fire, then instead of a small, controllable fire, you have a wildfire.
Burning the bush releases the nutrients locked up in dead leaves and larger plant that crowd out others. (Australia is mostly too dry for vegeatable matter to break down quickly via fungi etc).
So you get new plants taking advantage of the nutrients, and growing like crazy. Animals love those tender young shoots. And those animals were an important part of the diet of the Indigenous Australians, so they had easy pickings.
And those plants? They
know what all those plants are, which ones are good to eat, which ones not to eat, which ones are medicine. which ones flowing means which season is coming, and so on.
They weren't born knowing this stuff. They
observed and
discovered and
learned.
That's
science.
