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  His name was Promethius you ass and he's still in prison for it.  SMH
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  There's a movie from 1981 called "Quest for Fire" that's pretty good and espouses that before man learned to create fire himself, he found existing fire and carried it around with him. >
  
  In a time when dinosaurs walked the Earth
  When the land was swamp and caves were home
  In an age when prized possession was fire
  To search the landscapes men would roam >
  
  Who were these people who mastered time travel to walk earth with the dinosaurs but couldn't make a fire? >
  
  The existence of one technology does not imply another one.
  Since we didn't find a way to time travel, we do not know, if making fire is necessary for it, so it is totally possible to have developed time travel, without knowing how to make fire.
  (in reality, usually in Sci fi, if you have video telephones, you have flying cars but we can Skype, zoom or WhatsApp video call today, but still drive on the road) >
  
  We could fly cars if we wanted to, it’s just horribly inefficient to suspend the weight of a car in the air when everywhere we need to go is on the ground, and the places that need elevation to reach it’s more efficient to stick 200 people on 1 plane instead of 200 entire cars burning whatever fuel makes you fly >
  
  We have flying cars, the unpowered runway landing was too dangerous and cumbersome so we gave them vtol capabilities. They're called helicopters. >
  
  I am attracted to you based on this comment alone.
  I'm not going to read any of your others, just in case. ❤️‍🔥 >
  
  Please don't waste your time doing that, but I will let you know that a few months ago there was a post about a newly discovered Egyptian mummy tomb they found, and somebody said I hope they don't open it and release another pandemic, and I said they could call it "SARS COV-agus". 
  ...I understand if the spark is gone >
  
  I suppose a few different people probably figured it out independent from each other. >
  
  And none of them were our species. From some archeology done in East Africa it seems our genus (Homo) had that figured out long before Homo Sapiens came along >
  
  And there you have why we don't have their name. >
  
  What? >
  
  The person who discovered how to put a fire out was pretty important, too. >
  
  I heard it was Oog after he ate it