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Originally posted by cushycrux
If there was no battery, how did they use their lamps?
[edit on 8-6-2010 by cushycrux]
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by Donnie Darko
would we be able to identify it as being so today, 10000 years later or whatever? nobody has found a computer chip from 15000 BC (that I know of), but does that mean none were made?
Yes. We could identify advanced technology.
For one thing, you don't wake up in your cave one morning and decide to invent the Ipod (well, you might, but there are some serious problems with this.) In order to have Ipods, you have to have chips. In order to make those, you have to have clean rooms and industrialization. That leaves traces. In order to have industrialization, you need to have metal and ceramic technology (bricks, metal devices, wires) as well as standardization (nothing varies in composition or effects by more than 5%.) You also need to be able to make climate controlled buildings (architecture, power, material science.) You have to have accurate instructions, which means you write them down and transmit them through schools. You need good math (particularly for computer engineering and logic circuits), which means books and schools on math and material science. You have to be able to efficiently calculate things, which means a fairly simple system of numbering (just try writing out "pi" in decimal form using Roman numerals and you'll rather quickly see where that problem comes in.) You need scales that measure minute amounts of things.
You need good food production to support the workers and the researchers.
You need a society that supports a drive for advancement.
You need a society that trades to many other places (and soon you'll see those societies buying your Ipods and Izods and Wrangler jeans.)
...and so on and so forth.
Originally posted by Donnie Darko
would we be able to identify it as being so today, 10000 years later or whatever? nobody has found a computer chip from 15000 BC (that I know of), but does that mean none were made?
Originally posted by pikestaff
I'm wondering how the Egyptians made a glass bulb that big for the electric lamp, and how did they know how to make clear glass anyway, has any evidence of glass making been found? yet?
Originally posted by starsystem3
why would you want to make a crystal radio? but dont have the technology to create radio waves to commuicate your own signal stop attempting to protect your secret brother hood of masonic idiots