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Originally posted by VitriolAndAngst
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>> As far as precision automation -- you are thinking TOO MUCH like a modernist. You don't need a precise instrument larger than whatever you are fashioning. Take for example "CAD-CAM" printers. The print head is actually controlled by pulleys -- so the printer head, is a tiny device being moved over the surface. If you were going to cut or create large, precise geometries, you might do this by stationing pulleys on ropes, and using a consistent geometry to move your cutting head.
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Originally posted by dogstar23
I do find it insulting to the intellect that there are people who, despite evidence and explanations, still believe not only that we can build with that level of precision today, but that it could be done with chisels and hammers and stones thousands of years ago.
Originally posted by Sahabi
reply to post by bottleslingguy
there would also be the residue from our filthy lifestyles using oil and nuclear. Where are all the ancient Hoover Dams?
Even from observing the traditional cultures and societies around our world, we see that independent cultures develop differently. WE are advanced, wasteful, and dirty/destructive. There is no reason to set our standards to our ancestors when our own known cultures developed differently around the world.
Past cycles could have been advanced, peaceful, nature lovers. The majority of our past is destroyed. Who really knows anything for sure?
Originally posted by Flavian
Originally posted by dogstar23
I do find it insulting to the intellect that there are people who, despite evidence and explanations, still believe not only that we can build with that level of precision today, but that it could be done with chisels and hammers and stones thousands of years ago.
That is a truly remarkable statement.
Personally, i find it depressing that there are people who, despite the evidence, believe that man couldn't build with that level of precision thousands of years ago.
Originally posted by Darkchemistry
Sorry no flag or star for you; this post is just a highlight reel; reduced from all of the best posts at the ongoing thread here: www.abovetopsecret.com... Why didn't you just add your thought to that thread? Instead of taking every ones thoughts from that thread; and compiling them all in a new thread as your own? That's a pretty shameful thing for you to do.edit on 22-3-2012 by Darkchemistry because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Sahabi
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
I'm more prone to believing we as modern humans are simply the product of amnesia and faced near annihilation one or more times in the ancient past. We develop, we learn, we grow, we face global cataclysm, and start over. We've had more than one stone age, more than one nuclear age, and more than one space age.
Originally posted by Sahabi
There has been more than one stone age and more than one technological age. The rise and fall of mankind has happened more than once. No ancient aliens, just advanced man beyond 10,000 B.C.
TextAll of the ancient libraries such as Alexandria and Timbuktu have been targeted, burned, destroyed, stolen, or hidden. This campaign even continued in the Americas with the destruction of texts belonging to the Maya and other natives. Entire oral traditions were lost by the forced conversion to colonial languages and Christianity. In my opinion, all of those books, writings, records, documents, and traditions around the world were targeted specifically for the purpose of creating a world-wide illness of amnesia.
TextKing James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
"I am Caesar, I am the Emperor."
- Pope Boniface VIII
Originally posted by Sahabi
reply to post by Harte
Sand ramp explains it all.
In the op I mentioned that an average human hair is about 0.003 inches or 0.0762 millimeters thick.
The stones of these ancient sites have a precision fit between each contact surface. This means no sand particles or even a human hair is between the contact surfaces. There is absolutely no room for debris to be stuck under any of the blocks. It was an extremely clean assembly... far too clean for sand ramps.