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im very annoyed as i was fined today alot of banans which i won fair and square its a bloody discrace how will i feed and nourish my children who are now growing very quickly and need the nourishment of what seems like a small herd of elephants i want compensation or ill have to take further action

Yes we are assholes, the assholes who run the forum.

George wrote:Yes we are assholes, the assholes who run the forum.

well occasionally when it's feeling tired we walk it... and Johnny you were blatantly spanning you have 8000 also bananas so quit whingeing or they might suddenly rot!!!

Yes, i have met up with the moderaters all in real life. And i have found out they are all cocks.

You may own the forum,
you may build and create the forum,
you may fine and ban from the forum.
But you don't have the power.
The members have the power!

Now, everyone just STFU.

p.s Give Jonny his banananananananaananas back.

Well guys I here wor you saying but you have got 1 thing wrong we are not moderaters we are Administrators! Looks like you lot just got !

i need more banans cos they are like this. Bronze is a copper/arsenic or copper/tin alloy. The presence of arsenic and tin dramatically increased the hardness of copper, producing war-winning weapons and armor. A noble wearing bronze armor was basically impervious to the stone tools of the times, and his bronze sword kept its edge and shattered the older stone-based weapons. The knowledge of the smelting of copper allows kings to overcome their enemies, and caused such a revolution that it marked the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age. It would be millenia, though, until bronze could be used by common soldiers and townsfolk, and for a long time they were luxury items used by nobility.

The first copper/arsenic bronzes date of 4200BC from Asia Minor, and were used for a long time until replaced by the modern copper/tin bronzes by 1500BC. It is unclear that if at some point in time the smiths that produced copper/arsenic bronze added arsenic oxides on purpose, or if they explored some copper lodes that happened to have arsenic as a lucky contamination.

The first copper/tin bronzes date of 3200BC, again from Asia Minor. Copper/tin bronzes are harder and more durable than copper/arsenic ones, and made these obsolete. The process through which the smiths learned to produce copper/tin bronzes is once again a mystery. The first such bronzes were probably a lucky accident from tin contamination of copper ores, but by 2000BC we know that tin was being mined on purpose for the production of bronze. This is amazing, given that tin is a semi-rare metal, and even a rich cassiterite ore only has 5% tin. Also, cassiterite looks like any common rock, and it takes special skills (or special instruments) to find it and locate the richer lodes. But, whatever steps were taken to learn about tin, these were fully understood by 2000BC.

ok you get it now? or not?
There were in the past some arguments that copper was first smelt by accident also in campfires, but that seems improbable as campfires are about 200°C short of the temperature needed to smelt copper. A more probable path may have been through pottery kilns, invented in Iran by 6000BC. Pottery kilns produce ceramics that can be glazed with colorful earths (mostly metalic oxides) to produce colorful vases; it happens that malachite (copper oxide) is a colorful green stone, so a potter that encrusts malachite in a ceramic vase in a coal-fired kiln will produce a few droplets of metallic copper (ruining his vase). That may have set the way to smelt copper.

The first known cast copper artifact is a mace head found in Can Hasan from 5000BC.

Copper created some impact on the ancient world, as it produces good blunt weapons and reasonable armor, but it is still too soft to produce useful blade weapons. Therefore, the smelting of copper did not replace the manufacture of stone weapons, which still produced superior blades.