Humans and their Explosions
Humans have been captivated with explosives since their invention. It could be from wanting to be the loudest things around, the feeling of the pressure wave, or being visually and/or audibly pleasing. It could even be an evolved conflict in the brain resulting from the reward and FoF centers activating simultaneously at the sight of fire. Whatever the reason, it is a direct influence on the speed of their technological advancement.
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Steve: Hey Jim, check out this thing the aliens gave us for the experiment!
Jim: Cool! Want to blow it up to see what happens?
S: Heck yeah!
~1 year and many explosions later~
Altraz: Why where you trying to destroy the thing we gave you for the experiment?
J: At first it was to see what it looked like. After it withstood the first explosion, we wanted to see just what it would take to destroy it.
S: Turns out, only the highest of ordinance humans can safely make stopped it from working.
J: So we reverse-engineered how to make the material it is made of and it is now used in everything from toys to Starship fleets.
A: It’s been a year! How did you figure out how to make it so quickly? It took my species 600 years to perfect it when the Gremforal gifted us it!
S: You can learn a lot about something by knowing how it fails.
