Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan - Vol. 19 Ch. 94 - Obligation

[TristhaniaGevra]

God I love this series so much

 

[Eloquento]

What a great manga! Thank you for translation!

 

[solamente]

this chapter reminded me that she manufactured plastic that's enough of a vapor barrier to support off-season greenhouses and then didn't feel the need to elaborate on how or why she did that as opposed to glass. next she will invent teflon and I will be ok with it

 

[solamente]

Cultivating Neem, imagine the smell.

I read the wikipedia page for it and there was this particular line that struck me: "It disrupts the sense of smell to the point that some insects would rather starve than eat azadirachtin-laced food". imagine being a locust and smelling something so bad that you go hmm actually I would prefer to die than eat this LMAO. incredible

 

[aerosock]

Thought they'd started growing Zaza.

 

[aerosock]

It will be much faster. They already have steel so steam engine within 10 years is possible. Steam ship capable of crossing Pacific should take about two to three decades. They can work on seafaring and Celestial navigation during that time.

I think they'll be able to achieve that even faster. Inventing stuff backwards is so much easier and faster. Especially with the amount of specialists/transmigrstors they have.

 

[p2x909]

She can't do much with it beyond convincing people that her "theory" is right.
Much harder than just construct some tool and use it.

There wasn't so much as a "tool" constructed and more that the astronomers of the day that proved it had to actually travel to the ends of the Earth just to get the parallax data they needed. You had to go on a long and dangerous adventure to get that data, which the steam engine may help with.

And yes, the steam engine would be the most valuable tool to prove heliocentrism.

 

[jikan2004]

There wasn't so much as a "tool" constructed and more that the astronomers of the day that proved it had to actually travel to the ends of the Earth just to get the parallax data they needed. You had to go on a long and dangerous adventure to get that data, which the steam engine may help with.

I mean a scientist could easily prove it with today's knowledge its more it would be a lot of time for very little pay off since she's Japanese not European and also not a scientist she's a agriculture school attendee.

 

[Scrabbleman]

It will be much faster. They already have steel so steam engine within 10 years is possible. Steam ship capable of crossing Pacific should take about two to three decades. They can work on seafaring and Celestial navigation during that time.

The steam engine is already old world tech; it was more about the useabilities of the steam engine that mattered more. People could build the steam engine but they didn't know what to use it for. The earliest version of the steam engine was use to spin meats by the Turkish.

But with Shizuko around, they'll be able to point it to the right direction at least.

 

[Zhangar]

It's entirely possible that a united japan could end up conquering china, which had long been an ambition of theirs.
With china's abundance of land and natural resources, the one thing japan really lacks, they'd be quite a powerhouse.

China... is really big, and throughout it's entire history has always been able to field absolutely massive armies. The quality of those armies often left much to be desired, but trying to defeat them and then hold vast swaths of land with fuedal Japan's population would be an absolutely insane undertaking. The population difference was approximately 15 to 1 in China's favor, never mind the sheer amount of land involved.

In short, trying to end the Ming Dynasty a century ahead of schedule would probably take the rest of Shizuko's life, unless the author gave her some insane handwaves.

Which the author probably would, but still.