Brion Vibber on Nostr: internal combustion engines (both piston and turbine) are *very clever technology* ...

internal combustion engines (both piston and turbine) are *very clever technology* but they're basically fancy applications of "fire + lever"

electric motors are fucking *magic*, you just apply an electric current and *magnetism* makes it spin

our ancestors have been doing fire and levers for hundreds of thousands of years, it's just perfected our ancient rites

we've barely figured out how to harness electromagnetism in the last 150 years, it's still new and exciting to me ;)