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To: Ramius

If reasonable means without the spaceships, Uber-people and healing energy crystals then i agree, in theory.
Although the real place might hardly be recognizable as the myth version.

If you know about the small jungle village which, most likely, inspired El Dorado myth, you know what i am talking about.


46 posted on 05/09/2006 8:58:56 AM PDT by S0122017
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To: S0122017

Yes, without the spaceships, Uber-people, and healing energy crystals. Mostly.

But I think we also risk making a mistake by underestimating the technological gains that might have been made -- or just barely missed -- by those civilizations. I suspect that there were some discoveries made thousands of years ago that either were lost, or barely missed some essential connection with another discovery that might have meant a technological or industrial revolution far earlier than ours.

I would submit that the things lost in the various burnings of the library at Alexandria would have amazed us were we to find them hidden today. I would bet that we would be very surprised at what they knew or what things might have been known if only they'd put a few different ideas together.

It's tantalizing, but of course, imponderable.


48 posted on 05/09/2006 9:10:55 AM PDT by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1100 knives and counting!)
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