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To: cripplecreek

It’s a beautiful ship & one like it might have carried the technology for wheeled toys from the orient to the “New World”.


14 posted on 02/03/2009 1:07:54 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

The History Channel ran a show about chinese shipbuilding technology of the past. They understood how to make large (300 foot) oceangoing vessels that were strong enough to take the stresses of open ocean waves. They simply built double hulls and filled them with a form of concrete to stiffen them.

It’s easy for us to say someone else was stupid for not coming up with something we’ve lived our entire lives with (like wheels) But if we had never encountered that technology we might be a thousand years away from it now.


15 posted on 02/03/2009 1:16:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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