explain to me why this wouldn't work in real life
>>215191272This was very famously used by the Romans
>>215191272If it's foggy you're fucked
>>215191272Where are the barracks?
So they just have a bunch of guys hanging out at the top of the mountain all day every day watching out for the other beacons? Seems incredibly boring
it works in real life.
Sadly, we lost the technology.
>>215191272It would work. Beacon cults existed in Scotland until the 17th century and were the main reason Roman occupation was resisted.
>>215191272This absolutely would, signal fires were used from ancient times.It probably wouldn't work in our times because with internet and nothing to do there the firewatchers can start gooning all the time and can miss the fire being lit.
>>215191272it wouldn't work in countries without hills/mountains
>>215191334Yes, that's how beacons worked in real life and according to some dental evidence some people apparently lived their entire lives as beacon workers even into he stone age.
Why not just use the eagles to send messages?
>>215191334have some ale with you , snacks and maybe deck of playing cards. time will fly
>>215191436Most countries have hills
>the Akritae ask for help
>>215191451Do you know how much they charge?
>>215191443how did they know someone worked on a beacon by their teeth?
>>215191436Then they build a mountain...
>>215191497
>>215191508They had a different diet compared to others alive at the same time, nearly all of it was fish, so either they were traditional beacon workers or outcasts forced to eat fish out of desperation. Either way by eating so much fish they would have been regarded as exceedingly poor.
>>215191272Mongols perfected this, it works.
>>215191272It did though
>>215191535How central stick so strong that it holds 2 stone parts?Steel did not appear until 19 century
>>215191272Fire signals work great up until you need to say anything other than "someone is coming"
>>215191619Its not made of stone, the middle is made from damascus steel folded 999 times and screwed and the rest is just two big elephant teeth
>>215191334>So they just have a bunch of guys hanging out at the top of the mountain all day every day watching out for the other beacons? Seems incredibly boringMy dream job. Unless there was actually a fire. Then I'd probably panic and bungle it.
>>215191680These were made obsolete with satellites
>>215191697Not everyone can afford their own satellite
>>215191697>satellites>implying space is real
>>215191334You say that like there is a million security guards and military people sitting somewhere and staring into the void right now
>>215191717Satellites are just more advanced air balloons.
>>215191680Ah, a fellow tower forest watcher
>>215191653that's why semaphore telegraphs completely mog beacons
>>215191771what the hell does that thing do? shoot telegraph signals long distances to other towers? faster than wire? or was this a precursor to landline-type infrastructure?
>>215191272Notice how the peaks are hundreds of meters above the clouds all the way to the horizon? This means that the peaks are over 8000 meters. There's very little O2 at that elevation. The pyre, if it could be lit, wouldn't produce a visible flame. Also, any sentries at that elevation would die of pulmonary edema after a few days.
>>215191272What film?
>>215191796They are like beacons, because you still need some guys in towers looking at other towers through the telescope, but you can send more complicated messages. You set the semaphore arms and transmit the message letter by letter.
>>215191653Never heard of smoke signals?
>>215191272they literally did this, for example in portugal along the riverhttp://www.myownportugal.com/en/castelos-e-muralhas-mondego/
>>215191598i think OP just wants to have people talk to him and post more evidence of it happening
>>215191272Who said it wouldn't?
>>215191879holy kino, never heard of this
>>215191879never heard of this, either, anonthat's cool, but how fast can a message be relayed like this?guess this is a precursor to morse code
>>215192309Your just set the letters corresponding to a code on a book everyone has
>>215191272last i checked, a big fire like that needed a lot of oxygen. looks like they are above the clouds where oxygen is extremely limited (this is science)
>>215191680>Dude you had ONE job
>>215191619Are you blind? It's not made of stone, it's snow, hence the white color, and snow is lighter than stone(Anatolia used to be way colder before global warming)
>>215192622It's not clouds. It's smog from isengard
>>215191272>defending army sees 3 lit beaconsWhich one was lit first?
>>215191272How do you think the Great Wall of China was supposed to work faggot?
>>215191680Looks comfy.
>>215191319Further down the mountain where its less cold and windy probably.>>215191334Hey, beats getting your head smashed in by Orcs or Easterlings.
>>215193399If this place had good internet, I wouldn't mind living here.
>>215191697>made obsolete by satellitesNot really. They were made obsolete, but they just put up cameras that send a life-feed back to some control center. No need for an actual dude to be at the location.
>>215193488It probably does. It's not that far from civilization. Only downside is you have to climb down every time you have to take a shit.
>>215193540Just use a bucket
>>215193540>Only downside is you have to climb down every time you have to take a shit.Why? I'd just cut a hole in the floor and try and poop on deer or rabbits.
>>215193540>implying I wouldn't poop in my hand and throw it out the windowI poop in my hand in the shower and throw it into the trash all the time. The tower would be no different.
>>215193665You'd be more likely to hit other people, since this is a popular hiking spot.
>>215191334welcome to the army pal, just be glad your nco isn't making you mop you rain puddles
>>215192249>>215192309Yeah, they are sadly forgotten nowadays, personally I've heard about them in a movie adaptation of one of Discworld book of all places. I know they were used a lot by Napoleon to obtain information on enemy movements.The speed varied depending on the weather, but I've read that a message of 36 symbols could've been transported between Paris and Lille (230km, 143 miles) in about 30 minutes.Though my favorite piece of trivia on them is the story of two bankers using them to scam the stock market.>The network was reserved for government use, but an early case of wire fraud occurred in 1834 when two bankers, François and Joseph Blanc, bribed the operators at a station near Tours on the line between Paris and Bordeaux to pass Paris stock exchange information to an accomplice in Bordeaux. It took three days for the information to travel the 300 mile distance, giving the schemers plenty of time to play the market. An accomplice at Paris would know whether the market was going up or down days before the information arrived in Bordeaux via the newspapers, after which Bordeaux was sure to follow. The message could not be inserted in the telegraph directly because it would have been detected. Instead, pre-arranged deliberate errors were introduced into existing messages which were visible to an observer at Bordeaux. Tours was chosen because it was a division station where messages were purged of errors by an inspector who was privy to the secret code used and unknown to the ordinary operators. The scheme would not work if the errors were inserted prior to Tours. The operators were told whether the market was going up or down by the colour of packages (either white or grey paper wrapping) sent by mail coach, or, according to another anecdote, if the wife of the Tours operator received a package of socks (down) or gloves (up) thus avoiding any evidence of misdeed being put in writing. The scheme operated for two years until it was discovered in 1836.
>>215191598>people back then understood the concept of a "work shift" and were able to think ahead farther than 24 hours,antiquated racist pseudoscience
i laughed when Gandalf, THE FIRE WIZARD, forces that little shit pippin to risk a dangerous climb into a fire pit with a jug of napalm to start the beacon while he watched
>>215191272what did they eat? did dudes really stand there 24/7 just waiting to start a fire?wouldnt birds be easier? hell ask the eagles even
>>215194625Hey, what else are hobbits good for?
>>215194642nevermond i just read the thread i am retarted
>>215193979Even better
>>215191272IRL Theoden would probably be jerking to elf sloots and Moria shortstacks >"GONDOR CALLS FOR A-">"nah im good" *goes back to his goon fortress*
>>215195687i think you might be doing a tiny bit of projecting there sonny
>>215191272Real life nigga
too unreliable depending on the weatheralso since it was lit fraudulently. rohan illegally invaded the territory of gondor
>>215191334They have laptops to watch anime all day.
>>215191272It did, you fucking retard. Norway used that system for hundreds of years, and hundreds of places are named after them. It was even written into law that local towns were to build and maintain them.
>>215191334They were probably manned only during times of crisis, Which come to think of it, is all the time in Middle earth.
>>215191334But they give you lots of salt.
>>215191436WOAH.
>>215191436>
>>215191653Different coloured flames.
>>215191771I saw these used in the latest (TV) Count of Monte Cristo and I was like 'WTF is this?!'.
>>215191272human beings are fundamentally social creatures, being up there for weeks or months at a time without any social contact would warp a person's brain
>>215191680Frank Herbert had this job in Washington or Oregon in the 50s. Would've been my dream job if I was alive then. They've been obsoleted by technology.
>>215194625these movies really are retardedsorryThe character assassination that was done to Denethor is absurd
>>215191272>explain to me why this wouldn't work in real lifeSince the earth is flat, fire that close to the surface gets warped by moisture in the atmosphere and would not be visible from that distance. Like you, I am retarded and trans, btw
>>215191451They'd eat up the paper or drop them off at the wrong spot
>>215191870LOTR movie 3
>>215191272Explain why it wouldn't?
>>215197128Lack of oxygen
