Go Back   Two Wheel Fix > General > Off Topic

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-04-2010, 12:59 PM   #51
Amber Lamps
Moto GP Star
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 14,556
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by AquaPython View Post
i did not ask any question ? i don't think anyone asked "how could they be built" ? homeslice attempted to summarize COTG with it, unless i am mistaken (without going back through all of the posts. )
hmmm....
Amber Lamps is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:00 PM   #52
Amber Lamps
Moto GP Star
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 14,556
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by L8 Braker View Post
What's it matter?

We're all dead on 12/21/12 anyway
dang you broke up my multi-quote....

btw I wish, talk about a party until the end!
Amber Lamps is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:02 PM   #53
KSGregman
Get Fit...or Get OUT
 
KSGregman's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: KS
Moto: 07 M109-R
Posts: 1,993
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Amber Lamps View Post
The only thing that makes those places a "mystery" and places like the Great Wall less mysterious is RECORD KEEPING or the lack there of. Everyone knows how the wall was built so no one is going around claiming "alien involvement" or ancient uber engineering concepts. Is not the great wall equally impressive? Gee, how'd they ever build it using non-modern techniques? LABOR and time.....
And tools...and that is really the heart of my question.

Did it require time and manpower to quarry the stones that comprise the Trililthon? Absolutely. But it's the TOOLS required to move those 800 ton stones a half mile...and lift them into position within the structure that interest me. You're not moving an 800 ton megalithic stone with just manpower. Those people had tools to do the job...and we seemed to have lost them somehow...the tools..and the technological know how.

KSGregman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:05 PM   #54
Papa_Complex
Nomadic Tribesman
 
Papa_Complex's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Brampton, Canada
Moto: '09 ER-6n
Posts: 11,150
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by LeeNetworX View Post
I'm betting they had tools made of douchebag.
Impossible. New Jersey didn't exist until 1702.

You can do amazing things with tools made out of the same material that you want to work, a work ethic, and patience.

KSGregman, they used such complex tools as rope, wooden rollers, sand, and water.
__________________
"Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge, "Dorkness Rising"

http://www.morallyambiguous.net/
Papa_Complex is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:08 PM   #55
Inferno
Canyon Carver
 
Inferno's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Savannah, Ga
Moto: 08 R6
Posts: 309
Default

Here is an intersting website, this "story" (if it is a story) might have inspired Speilberg, Carl Sagan and Gene Roddenberry. True? I don't know, but intersting and would not surprise me...


http://www.serpo.org/
Inferno is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:09 PM   #56
AquaPython
put it THIS way
 
AquaPython's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 3,185
Default

where did they get wooden rollers in the desert?
__________________
Quote:
...it'd be like finding a human vagina on your unicorn. Literally fucking incredible.
AquaPython is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:10 PM   #57
Papa_Complex
Nomadic Tribesman
 
Papa_Complex's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Brampton, Canada
Moto: '09 ER-6n
Posts: 11,150
Default

Watch and learn.

http://www.wimp.com/buildingstonehenge/
__________________
"Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge, "Dorkness Rising"

http://www.morallyambiguous.net/
Papa_Complex is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:10 PM   #58
Homeslice
Elitist
 
Homeslice's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area
Moto: Gix 750
Posts: 11,351
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Amber Lamps View Post
Who would be God from our perspective...
Exactly, just like the movie Stargate. Again, I haven't seen any convincing evidence, but I don't entirely dismiss the "space seed" theory. If you believe that intelligent life could have evolved on Earth without a God, then there's no reason why it couldn't have evolved on another planet before travelling to Earth afterwards.

In addition, you should search Youtube for a Cosmos episode about how a 2-dimensional being wouldn't be able to comprehend a 3-dimensional being entering their environment. A similar situation could exist between us and alien life. The idea that they would arrive in physical spaceships is a little outdated IMO.
Homeslice is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:12 PM   #59
Amber Lamps
Moto GP Star
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 14,556
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Papa_Complex View Post
Impossible. New Jersey didn't exist until 1702.

You can do amazing things with tools made out of the same material that you want to work, a work ethic, and patience.

KSGregman, they used such complex tools as rope, wooden rollers, sand, and water.
Thanks man, that's all I'm trying to say....how do they cut diamonds? We have been doing it for hundreds, maybe thousands of years...

I guess that I ASSumed that he knew about logs, ropes, levers, pulleys, scaffolds, fulcrums, etc....All of our "modern" machines/building techniques are simply variations of ancient ones.
Amber Lamps is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-04-2010, 01:13 PM   #60
Inferno
Canyon Carver
 
Inferno's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Savannah, Ga
Moto: 08 R6
Posts: 309
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Homeslice View Post
Exactly, just like the movie Stargate. Again, I haven't seen any convincing evidence, but I don't entirely dismiss the "space seed" theory. If you believe that intelligent life could have evolved on Earth without a God, then there's no reason why it couldn't have evolved on another planet before travelling to Earth afterwards.

In addition, you should search Youtube for a Cosmos episode about how a 2-dimensional being wouldn't be able to comprehend a 3-dimensional being entering their environment. A similar situation could exist between us and alien life. The idea that they would arrive in physical spaceships is a little outdated IMO.
alex collier touches on this a bit (tons of youtube vids) but I think he is batshit crazy
Inferno is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:17 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.