Pure tripe. If our predecessors were so intelligent, why didn’t they figure out that the Earth orbits the sun? What about something as simple as E=MC2? Where are the airplanes? The automobiles? Heck, even a freakin’ steamboat?!? How about a microchip, or even a simple diode?
Lasers?!!—Eight O’clock, day one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRl7NbhrzM
I thought not.
Cheers!
Common sense is not common.
Of course, the ancient Greeks did figure out that the earth orbits the sun, and well before that Homer described intricate mechanical contrivances depicting entire scenes of human activity ( Iliad 18. ) This chapter also introduces the word “automaton” to the modern age in reference to “tripod” lampstands which move by themselves in response to the wishes of the god.
In a way, it’s more astounding that they thought of these things when they were still so far from actually producing them.