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Leeds_Lobber

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Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing
Sep 20^th, 2005 at 8:25am

The Pyramids - for generations Engineers were unable to explain how these towering monuments to the greatness of kings, Ships to bear the soul of the departed to the after life, were constructed.

The answer appears to be 'More Whips'

Hydraulic cement - the Romans again. A secret lost until the 19th century

The Nazca Lines - still pretty inexplicable.

And finally, to quote Eric Von Danniken - "How did the ancients manage to create such perfect sculptures of the Human skeleton when X-rays were not developed for another 2000 years?"

Whimsically,
Pat

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Yahweh Bless you in Yeshua Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Matthew 11:25-30 Posts: 1700 Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #1 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 10:36am Their knowledge of the Earth's circumference, spherical trigonometry.....the riddle of longitude. The Piri Reis map....etc. Most of all, I am impressed with their resolute determination in having intermittently solved the simplest 'equation'.... "You have not because you ask not." Peace, TS
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Reply #2 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 12:35pm

As I tell people over and over at the Medieval Demos I do-- They were not dumb people, it's just that the level of technology was different. Theirs was more muscle and brains based, rather than computer.
More things to add to amazing things you didn't know they had.

Pocket calculator Roman, before the abacus.

Air mattresses- skins of animals sewn together in a bag, waterproofed, and then attatched to a bellow. Used by soldiers on campaign for quick beds

Hand crank paddleboats- ancient

Floating portable bridges

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th cent. science has been the discovery of human ignorance The main difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits.-Einstein I'm getting psychic as I get older. Or is that psychotic?

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Yahweh Bless you in Yeshua Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Matthew 11:25-30 Posts: 1700 Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #3 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 12:47pm Badgerdude, you may want to rethink that whole Roman calculator predating the Abacus, thing. Hand cranked paddleboats......not seen that one. Peace, TS 8)
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TLM Tiro Offline Have tried a lot of things Posts: 21 Helsinki, Finland Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #4 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 1:54pm P. James and N. Thorpe; Ancient Inventions. "How did the ancients manage to create such perfect sculptures of the Human skeleton when X-rays were not developed for another 2000 years?" How about some time?! TLM
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Yahweh Bless you in Yeshua Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Matthew 11:25-30 Posts: 1700 Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #5 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 2:16pm High temperature mold casting? eww. Wouldn't put it past'em.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3247 Akron NY Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #6 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 3:25pm Techstuf,. i'd be happy to post my refernces on this stuff if you're interested.
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Yahweh Bless you in Yeshua Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Matthew 11:25-30 Posts: 1700 Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #7 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 3:33pm I am interested. TS
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Hellfire Ex Member	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #8 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 5:36pm Quite a few mysteries have been about how the romans could launch a rock 900 meters with seige engines, that, if the same size of the medieval ones, could only throw a rock 2/3 as far? I almost don't know how the romans could make suchan effiecient machine, so as to do that. Just crazy.
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Reply #9 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 7:11pm

indoor plumbing
baths
running water
bridge the length of 6 football fields in 8 days
COLLESEUM
arches
aqueducts
roads
road cambers
retractable roof (for colleseum)
indoor (sort of) naval battles

all done by the romans, it would take us years to do some of the things they did in days, ponder that for awhile
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Hellfire Ex Member	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #10 - Sep 20^th, 2005 at 8:47pm I dearly would like to know how they made greek fire.
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Reply #11 - Sep 21^st, 2005 at 9:38am

" I'd presume that a lot of things like the volcanic sand cement that cures underwater in molds (sorry I don't know any references to go read about this) and so many other neat and inexplicable things probably were like some of the best technology today"

Sorry to disappoint you but the "secret" of roman cement is well known and can easily be copied if needed.. We have even better ones now. Only if they are 0.5% more expensive than the ubiquitous portland cement you are not going to see them in commercial use. Google for "ceramicrete".

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Yahweh Bless you in Yeshua Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Matthew 11:25-30 Posts: 1700 Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #12 - Sep 21^st, 2005 at 10:31am Quote: Sorry to disappoint you Don't know about Funslinger, but I wasn't disappointed at all.....leave it to those Romans! Ubiquos, is that spanish?
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TLM Tiro Offline Have tried a lot of things Posts: 21 Helsinki, Finland Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #13 - Sep 21^st, 2005 at 11:04am " Ubiquos, is that spanish? " No, just heavily misspelled and a few letters left out for some reason. TLM Did some corrections on my lousy spelling
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TLM Tiro Offline Have tried a lot of things Posts: 21 Helsinki, Finland Gender:	Re: How the Ancients did "amazing" thing Reply #14 - Sep 23^rd, 2005 at 3:55pm People two thousand years ago were as intelligent (or not ) as we are. Roman concrete with all probability was not the result of research but an accidental discovery. But they recognized a good thing when they saw one. Romans were pretty good engineers in spite of their cumbersome number system. TLM
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