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To: PIF
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How many people worked on building those statues and pyramids, and how long did they work? Serving a lifetime for a "god" even to partially complete something that was passed on to the son would be a source of dedicated labor.

I never said they didn't have an understanding of math. I never did say that they weren't patient and tenacious workers. I merely said that they did not do anything that we cannot do right now. The cathedrals of Europe prove that post-ancient people can make some spectacular things. On the other hand, we aren't working for gods. We work for pay; and, nobody wants to pay for immense works of art these days. We have no god-kings who make such demands.

We do have hobbyists who spend a lifetime making incredible model railroads or ships. We even have people who work with hand tools making tiny gasoline engines that actually run. If they were gathered together on a project of some sort, imagine what they could do. The point is, we just don't need to make Egyptian-like stuff anymore. The god-kings no longer rule. Nobody else wants a tomb like those.

33 posted on 12/11/2019 10:34:38 AM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

I merely said that they did not do anything that we cannot do right now


OK. And they were not tombs, if you were referring to the Giza Pyramids. Everything else you wrote is based on your own apparent assumptions which are wildly in error. We cannot build anything like what they built out of stone; that has been proven over and over again with many attempts ending in failure - we do not even have machines that can lift some of those stones.

End of debate, please.


34 posted on 12/11/2019 10:42:38 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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