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Originally Posted by April777
There is a show on TV called "Ancient Discoveries". It is amazing what man knew (namely the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians) before the dark ages. If all that knowlege had not been lost during that time, there is no telling where we would be today, probably already living on mars, or having a clean fuel that is not based on fossil fuels. Truely amazing!
April
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Yea that's the point I'm kinda getting at. It's very clear that the Accent Greeks for example had extremely complex machines for their time. Heronas of Alexandria for example actually devloped the first steam engine, but he failed to grasp what it could have been used for. Had he put two and two together history could have been very advanced.
Yet they eventually reached a limit to what they could build, simply because they were limited to metal, wood stone and cloth. Man for the last 1000 years has been limited to those basic materials.
It wasn't instill the 20th century and the last 100 years that we have advanced past that stage. The ability to to work with large amounts of steel or iron for example didn't come along until the 20th century. Sure they used iron before hand but only in small amounts but never at a large scale.
What sortie can't get through his thick head, is I'm not arguing that man hasn't known how to work with iron or make wheels, ect..ect. I'm simply stating man has advanced faster in the last 100 years than at any time in our history and wondering if we can keep on advancing at this pace or will we eventually hit a bottle neck do to lack of new techonlgy, materials ect..ect..