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Could we reboot a modern civilization without foss...
Take your wood fire, add some aluminium you scavenged from an aircraft, then add some rust.
Voila, 2500 C.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
jnbiche
on April 13, 2015
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This should be a top-level comment. There are probably other similarly low-tech ideas that could be used to bootstrap a civilization.
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Voila, 2500 C.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite