chess.stackexchange.com/a/21214 I honestly thought this was a good troll answer (even despite the author's admitting of making a little joke near the beginning) up until they began to expound on the actual events.
(admitting of making strikes me as ill-formed but wcyd now.)
A fire piston is a very old way of starting fires, predating friction matches and works on the same principle as a diesel engine.
Basically, you use it to light a piece of tinder and then start the fire with that.
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It's possible to buy modern ones pretty cheaply, would a fire piston h...
You know how sometimes you don't understand a lesson or something you've read, and the next day when you reread it you understand it better. Or even just thinking about what you've read the following day sometimes makes you have an aha moment.
It occurred to me that that might be because our brains memorize best things we actually understand, and forget things which don't really make sense. So when you wake up in the morning your brain's working only with those things which you do know, while whatever nonsense you accumulated by misunderstanding things has more or less dissipated. In other words you're working with pure "facts" and it's easier to make sense of something more complex once you have those under your belt so to speak.
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A fire piston is a very old way of starting fires, predating friction matches and works on the same principle as a diesel engine.
Basically, you use it to light a piece of tinder and then start the fire with that.
Source
It's possible to buy modern ones pretty cheaply, would a fire piston h...
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