the giza plateau has an average deviation of 14 millimeters from true level since the plateau is over an acre and a half, that represents a mindbogglingly level of precision that we still cant match today im not joking. make an acre as flat as you can and it WILL deviate more than 15 millimeters
> Babylon battery I'm convinced we might be the second iteration of our own species.
Jaxon Cook
>Why couldn't we invent this stuff 1000 years ago, 500, years, or even 200 years ago. either the past doesn't exist, or history is circular
Jonathan Parker
How far did we get set back after the burning of the library of alexandria?
Angel Flores
How did ancient humans do it? Seems supernatural.
Joseph Adams
To make a smartphone you need advanced material technologies. To have advanced material technologies you need precise manufacturing techniques. To have precise manufacturing techniques precise machinery. To have precise machinery you need basic machinery to create them with. To have basic machinery you need advanced tools to build them with. To have advanced tools you need to go through several iterations of basic tools. To have several iterations of basic tools you need a sophisticated printing technology to pass on knowledge and information about previous iterations of tools, what did and didn't work. To have sophisticated printing technology you need basic tools. To have basic tools you need to stop killing your neighbors and focus on intellectual matters. Something something descend from trees.
Our brains have been geared for tool use for most of our evolutionary history, we just needed to build better and better tools over the generations.
it took a /lot/ of steps we might not have those now if they didn't make the advancements they made back then
Austin Gray
Quantum physics, bitch
Hudson Brown
That is always the irony. The things we can not yet understand are always "supernatural".
Wyatt Wright
Most of the texts were comentaries on the Iliad
Chase James
100 years ago there didn't even exist a science needed to make all that shit. You seem to severely underestimate just how much work goes into these things.
Luis Green
you also have to remember alot of people got killed and shit for thinking differently and speaking out
Brandon Bell
>nothing better to do than moving dirt all day >use water or round object to test >overwhelming desire for extremely fucking level land for some reason
Carson Sanders
It's very likely that we just didn't have enough knowledge or the right motivation. The only reason it's been 50-60 years is because people were building off something and improving pre-existing things. If you give someone direction it's easy to go. Inventing and coming up with these things is extremely hard because how exactly do you come across it? Things aren't as black and white as you make them seem.
Andrew Wilson
That user said we can't do it today so it's gotta be more than just some faggots who got really good at moving dirt.
Josiah Brooks
Things didnt start moving along until we created the engine.
Engines harness energy and turn it into mechanical work. Makes things a hell of a lot easier to create and work on innovations.
Also lack of electricity meant time in the day you can do shit was strictly limited to the daytime.
they had rudimentary steam engines in ancient rome but it was more expensive to develop than slaves so nobody bothered. Abolition == need for automation
Hudson Baker
>Why couldn't we invent this stuff 1000 years ago, 500, years, or even 200 years ago. Because at some point this technology had to be invented 50-60 years ago.
Hunter Phillips
>you also have to remember alot of people got killed and shit for thinking differently and speaking out No. Especially not if your science did not directly contradict the teaching of the Catholic Church. Even saying the earth isn't the center of the solar system was perfectly acceptable if you added "it's just a model".
Nathan Ortiz
The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Kayden Johnson
the real question is how could nobody have created the "printing press" earlier than Gutenberg?
Easton Richardson
You could justify slave labor to get any thing done as long as you claimed it was the goal of some religious deity
Levi Russell
owo how come we don't have a full blueprint of the interiors yet?
Jack Gray
hi luke
James Bennett
Hey Ted
Tyler Allen
cause we're standing on the shoulders of giants while they didn't.
Jaxon Johnson
The past does not exist. You jumped into this timeline, Marty.
Carson Rivera
because nobody really needed it motivation to invent something usually comes from needs and/or convenience capitalism made it so people will almost always have a reason(money) to invent something new
Ayden Peterson
hi alex
Jordan Lee
because niggers
Robert Martinez
some nations will even skip inventions most africans will start on mobile phones not landline phones most of them wouldn't even know that there were photo cameras, mp3 players, video cameras, crt/lcd tv, desktop pc solar power will be big part in their lifes
>Its literally only been what, 50-60 years since humans invented these tools. not from nothing, it's not like you can go from strapping a rock to a stick to a solid state computer in one step the modern computer didn't just appear out of thin air, it's just another step in a long, long line of tools that dates back far more than a mere 60 years
>How come technology like the telephone and phonograph were just now invented?
Liam Murphy
-- speaking of, i can understand telephone taking a long time to figure out, namely due to the requirement of electricity, which isn't very obvious but why did the phonograph take so long? it's not like people didn't have sounds they'd want to store and reproduce, and understanding how sound works and how to record/reproduce it isn't that complicated
Owen Richardson
Invention of engines and better understanding of electricity accelerated progress. Also printing presses.
Dylan Kelly
pyramids are energy infrastructures of a different global civilization that came before us
large pyramidal structures can be found around the world (Bosnia, Xi An, possibly even antartica). Other anomalies include the Yonaguni monument, Baltic Sea anomaly, dropa stones, nazca lines, gobekli tepe, mayan sarcophagus, physical clues of ancient atomic wars worldwide, etc.
ancient traditions and myths tend to be dismissed as fake and idiotic in light of our technological revolution but it could also be argued that they deserve more attention now than ever before. Plato and Socrates are over two thousand years old but his works are still just as significant and even beyond the comprehension of many today. People thousands of years ago are just as smart as we are, perhaps there is truth in certain mythtologies out there
Yea sure that random anonymous guy on some Chinese forum is the world leading expert in what the human race can and cannot do
Carter Sanders
Its definitely /x/ tier stuff, but Hinduism and Buddhism also has a similar concept about this world being just another era and probably will be replaced by another civilization.
Cooper Morgan
It took more steps than you realize but the romans were working with early steam engines. They were on the literal verge of the industrial revolution 2000 years ago but just never tapped into steam as a functional power source
they could have been where we are by 300 ad
Levi Ross
>That user said we can't do it today are you fucking kidding me
we could get an acre down to nanometers
Jackson Hughes
>the real question is how could nobody have created the "printing press" earlier than Gutenberg? human life and scribes were cheap