The Pyramids are older than 2600 B.C., page 10

reply to post by kerkinana walsky

no anything man made would be gone, roads and rail would rot leaving only the paths they were made on most of which would eventually becovered by forest or would erode untill you couldnt tell there was a road there. Landfill would by then would have completely biodegraded and been consumed by soil or forest. I agree on the nuclear waste. Evidence of cities would remain but barely any metals would remain, concrete would crumble and the remaining structures would crumble and erode so bad they would show very little evidence or their origional engineering design. Books in libraries would disintegrate and the structures would collapse on top of them. Face it not much would survive after 1000 years that you would be even able to remotely recognise. Anything in orbit would eventually be drawn back into the atmosphere given enough time. And then given that it would take humanity a few thousand years to get back on their feet again by the time they start documenting the ruins of our civilization with a scientific approach there will be so little evidence left that we were technologically advanced that even you and me would have a hard time believing it. They would also draw the same conclusions about the pyramids as we have and possibly accidently give our era credit for building them. They would probably assume the faces carved into Mt Rushmore were depictions of gods we probably worshipped. And since we kept no record of our modern day society on stone, no account of our history would survive whatsoever.
Now if you were a survivor of a great catastrophe such as that and passed on your history, after you and all the people who survived in that time have passed on, the history will begin to get twisted and as education levels start to degrade, so will the origional understanding of the passed on history. Without any of our modern day support elements humans would probably come close to how people lived 4000-6000 years ago and if we were extremly lucky we would at worst only get set back to levels that were achieved only 500-1000 years ago.
Go ahead and try to debunk me, but if your feeling adventurous ask any metallurgist how long the shelf life of any manufactured metal would be if left unmaintained, or a mason how long concrete would last, or anyone who produces any material. Anything that is built, manufactued, produced etc. needs to be maintained and cared for in order to ensure they last. And finally history needs to be documented and continuously taught to each new generation to ensure it remains intact in its origional form and when all you are worried about is survival you have very little time to worry about history or science and education. Surviving and making a living off he land is a full time job in itself with no time for extra activites, ask any farmer. Do you also think that our curent religious models would be passed on? If they were undoubtedly that would wind down its own twisted path as well, losing all the origional meaning. So yes it is very possible for us to mistake our ancient societies as primitive and not having technology.

[edit on 23-11-2007 by metaldemon2000]