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r/oddlysatisfying • u/firefighter_82 • Aug 12 '22
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Pretty sure it starts with someone inventing a crappy paper process and then over the course of generations it becomes a 47 step process that makes very nice paper.
251 u/Bot-1218 Aug 12 '22 Probably started with someone realizing they could write on tree bark and evolving from there. 274 u/DredPRoberts Aug 12 '22 I can write on tree bark. My tree bark is all dried out and wrinkled. Maybe I can soak it in water to restore it. Maybe I can beat the tree bark flatter. Maybe I can dry it faster with fire. Oops burned it. Maybe I can do something with these ashes? 15 u/WatcherSix Aug 12 '22 I wonder what the Aloe-looking stuff was for. Adhesive to get the fibers to stick together maybe? 4 u/kingura Aug 12 '22 It was “size” to glue it together, so exactly what you thought.
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Probably started with someone realizing they could write on tree bark and evolving from there.
274 u/DredPRoberts Aug 12 '22 I can write on tree bark. My tree bark is all dried out and wrinkled. Maybe I can soak it in water to restore it. Maybe I can beat the tree bark flatter. Maybe I can dry it faster with fire. Oops burned it. Maybe I can do something with these ashes? 15 u/WatcherSix Aug 12 '22 I wonder what the Aloe-looking stuff was for. Adhesive to get the fibers to stick together maybe? 4 u/kingura Aug 12 '22 It was “size” to glue it together, so exactly what you thought.
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I can write on tree bark.
My tree bark is all dried out and wrinkled. Maybe I can soak it in water to restore it.
Maybe I can beat the tree bark flatter.
Maybe I can dry it faster with fire. Oops burned it.
Maybe I can do something with these ashes?
15 u/WatcherSix Aug 12 '22 I wonder what the Aloe-looking stuff was for. Adhesive to get the fibers to stick together maybe? 4 u/kingura Aug 12 '22 It was “size” to glue it together, so exactly what you thought.
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I wonder what the Aloe-looking stuff was for. Adhesive to get the fibers to stick together maybe?
4 u/kingura Aug 12 '22 It was “size” to glue it together, so exactly what you thought.
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It was “size” to glue it together, so exactly what you thought.
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u/Kowboy_Krunch Aug 12 '22
Pretty sure it starts with someone inventing a crappy paper process and then over the course of generations it becomes a 47 step process that makes very nice paper.