Chapter seven hundred and fifty seventh woodless shipbuilding
Hot lava surged down streets and hillsides, sending massive pillars of fire and smoke billowing into the sky.
Volcanic eruptions are huge disasters, destroying homes, cities and entire civilizations. The fiery lava engulfs everything it touches in flames.
This is the volcanic eruption that most people imagine, and its appearance is accompanied by destruction. However, nature is balanced.
Volcanoes are so violent and destructive that they create some of the richest and most lush ecosystems in the world.
These ecosystems were able to not only survive, but thrive in the wake of these fiery explosions from the Earth.
On Easter Island, which is more than 100 square kilometers of land, there are three giant volcanic craters. The largest one, Ranoguo Crater, is about 1,600 meters in diameter, more than 200 meters deep, and has a water depth of more than 600 meters. It is an important place for the residents of the island.
Source of drinking water.
But such a volcanic island is actually a complete grassland, with no trees higher than 3 meters on the island.
This is also the "mysterious" origin of much of Easter Island.
Because you have seen the construction of the pyramids, you know that erecting huge stone statues requires a lot of wood for transportation and hanging stones.
But botanists have only found 47 species of herbaceous plants on the island, and the others are shrubs. These trees and plants are obviously not suitable for transporting stone statues.
Therefore, some terms such as "alien" have become popular.
"This is of course the most enthusiastic explanation of the marketing account." Bi Fang shrugged. Explorers like him travel all over the world, and so-called alien ruins are simply nonsense.
"The reason why there are no trees on Easter Island is entirely because of fishing in the dry swamp. It is the best example of the game between man and the environment during evolution."
"The only difference is that in this case, the Easter Island aborigines - or perhaps the human race - were utterly defeated, not almost, but utterly defeated."
[Humanity was completely defeated?] [How was it defeated? I’m sorry]
[A blind guess is that it is excessive logging, which causes environmental damage. It cannot be restored after a certain level, leading to the mass extinction of the island's population]
[I came back from time travel an hour later, and the prophet upstairs was stabbed] "As for how to lose everything, don't worry, look over there."
Bi Fang stopped and pointed into the distance. After walking for nearly twenty minutes, he finally saw a small forest in his sight.
As expected, these trees are very short and quite neat.
But it doesn't matter, Bifang doesn't need to build a big boat, he only needs a single-person raft, and a three-meter-high tree is enough.
Bi Fang took out a series of tools from his backpack and piled them at his feet.
There are saws, axes, and even planes. They are all quite simple craftsmanship tools. They are all produced by the system and their quality is guaranteed.
"I will use these tools before the official crossing to improve the quality of the raft or boat. After I go out to sea, I will travel lightly."
[Congratulations, Fang Shen has finally used tools.] [Transition from the Stone Age to the Iron Age] [It’s over, Fang Shen has used modern tools, Ye Qingjie]
[Fast forward to using a hammer to knock out a nuclear warhead] [Small warhead, made by a master!]
Easter Island is very big, but there are not many types of trees on the island. Most of them are palm trees, and they are also very short. There are only a few larger ones, but they still feel a little inferior.
"The wood for shipbuilding is naturally lighter and tougher, the better. It must have high hardness and corrosion resistance. Common fir and pine are good materials, but in many cases people have to learn to adapt to the location."
"On many islands, the types of trees are quite single. Most of them are like Easter Island, which has many palm trees. In fact, palm trees can also be used to build ships."
"For example, in Thailand, many villages still retain the traditional craft of building canoes out of palm trees."
Bi Fang walked around in the grove and tried his best to choose suitable trees. It didn't have to be very long, but it had to be wide enough to accommodate at least one person.
He planned to build a canoe first.
It's just that the palm trees over three meters high are really not enough to look at...
Bi Fang walked around and felt that these trees were too small to be used for canoes. At most, they could cut off a piece and cut out suitable parts to make a raft.
"Let's wait and see and then look elsewhere."
Helpless, Bi Fang could only give up and look at other places on Easter Island. "Hey, the current situation is the sequelae of the initial failure."
Bi Fang picked up the previous topic again. The audience also pricked up their ears.
"There were trees on Easter Island originally, and it was a very lush forest."
"According to the Langlange records of the Easter Island Aboriginals, the first residents of Easter Island were a group of people who were exiled from other islands in the Polynesian Islands. They brought chickens, taro, bananas and
Sugar Cane, led by seven people, discovered this island by chance after sailing for many days."
"After landing on the island, we discovered that this is a place with lush forests, with large tracts of tall palm trees, and many animals in the forest. There are three volcanoes on this island. Fortunately, they are all extinct volcanoes."
"This seemingly fertile place attracted seven people. The only thing that is a pity is that the temperature here is a bit low, so there are no coral reefs in the nearby sea. The absence of coral reefs means that there are no fish nearby to settle here, and there are no fish.
If there are no fish, there will be no fish to eat.”
The residents of the Polynesian Islands are all sea dwellers and do not have sufficient conditions to develop farming, so they can only rely on the sea to eat.
The lack of fish is quite fatal, but it doesn't matter much, because there are other things to eat on Easter Island, namely dolphins and seabirds.
"Dolphins generally live in the deep sea. The depth here is not vertical depth, but horizontal depth, which means that it is far away from the shore and in the inland sea. Therefore, places like Dolphin Bay are actually relatively rare."
[Dolphin Bay was beaten to death again] [I heard that the person in charge last time resigned after taking the blame] [What is the use of resigning?]
[I guess, they must have bowed and apologized.]
"Although dolphins are all in the deep sea, don't forget that these first residents of Easter Island were exiled from other islands 2,000 kilometers away. Their navigation skills are good for them, and there are so many tall dolphins on the island.
Palm trees can be used to build big ships."
"The rope can be made from the fiber of a shrub of the Tilia family on the island, and the fruits of the big palm trees here can also be eaten. Every year when the fruits are ripe and cannot be eaten, they are turned into wine, and the pulp of the trees is still
It’s sweet and can be eaten as syrup.”
"After building the big boat, they went to catch dolphins. The birds on the island had never seen humans in their ancestors. Therefore, when the Rapa Nui people sharpened their knives and walked toward them, these stupid birds turned around.