I think it's amazing what they came up with back then.
I saw a program on ancient inventions a while ago and one of them was a steam engine about 1800 years before it was reinvented. (i think) i can't help but think where we would be now (technology wise) if we had not lost the technology?

I think it is really neat too. I really wonder though if we would have destoryed ourselves by now if technology would have stayed around back then. Sometimes I really feel like we are still headed on that path.

I think its amazing how we think we are so technically evolved and superior to those of the past. I actually happen to think we have gone backwards in many respects, by that I mean lessons have not been learned and what our ancestors inveted/discovered was not documented properly or we can't interperate it correctly.

Take the pyramids for example, some people think they are a map to the stars, some people believe they are just burial grounds. The truth is not all the hyroglyphic text has been translated so who know whats they awere for.

What about the mayan lines, how come they new about a spide which can only be seen through a microscope, and microscopes were not invented at that time.

I think we need to take a good long look at the past so we can discover answers for the future.

Has nobody seen Star Trek and the Terminator?
What happened was ppl from the future traveled back in time and ...

Seriously, it is pretty amazing what the earlier civilizations accomplished.

when you said about the mayan lines it reminded me of a program i saw ages ago but i counldn't rememer the name of the people that did the pictures untill just now.

the nazca people of peru from about 200BC to 600AD
Interestingly, the drawings are best viewed and appreciated from the air.

http://www.labyrinthina.com/nazca.htm

yeah from the air I have a book with the pics in, the most weird one is the man in the flying machine whats that all about?.

There was a program on not so long ago when they tried to recreate the lines in some field and they couldn't.

I must have missed that one do you remember what it was called? i'll keep my eye's open for it.

I can't remember but it was on channel 4, its also been on one of the History channels. They came to the conclusion that there must have been someone viewing the construction from the air somehow.

I think Tony Robinson was involved but can't remember precisley.

cheers i'll keep my eye's open

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