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You're taking a tiny leap like not needing to know the humidity and falsely equating it to hand knapping a fucking rock to cut trees. I hope at least 1 brain cell of yours while typing this metaphor was like, "This is probably a really stupid example."

>Thermometer
If it's cold, put on a jacket; If there's ice, it's freezing. You explain to me the difference between 71° and 66°.

>Hygrometer
If it's humid, we're moisture wicking. If it's dry, wear a bucket hat.
Explain the difference between 55% humidity and 60%.

>Compass
I'm not an unreasonable person, if it's really important to you to know the EXACT degree for navigation, then take one. Most outdoors people would be happy with just recognizing general direction.

>Sundial
This is troll. If you understand how a sundial works, you no longer need a sundial. You can determine hours of daylight remaining, time of year, and rough comparison to mid day without a sundial literally by reading books. Books even help you navigate at night. Knowledge invalidates some tools, sundial chief among them.

>fire starting
I made fun of you because you picked the LEAST effective fire starting method possible, that only works under pristine conditions.

So far for your dream tool we've improved it to a small case of storm proof matches with a $1 compass super glued to the top. Where will research and development take is from here?

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