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OKIsItJustMe

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:03 PM
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19. Of course, you do agree that societies have collapsed (right?)

You know, we're just coming to appreciate some of the technology the Romans and the Greeks (and other collapsed societies) had.

As just one example, consider the "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism">Antikythera mechanism." We had no idea the Greeks were capable of such things. Why? Well, because no one else (to the best of our knowledge) was capable of such a thing for a thousand years or more afterward.

When I think where our technology might be today, had it progressed forward from that point…

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