Posted on 11/29/2006 11:41:47 AM PST by Alter Kaker
Well, the problem was it just never had enough RAMs. Every time you attached a RAM, a vestal virgin would come up and sacrifice it, or turn it into RAM chops.
Roman invention of the arch (and the vault) was something I was taught in school and have seen since in architecture books. Can you point me to the possibility of prior invention?
Yes, it was discovered that someone in iraq(where else?)had a gold statue-plating operation with electrolysis and a crude battery, 2000+ years ago. The romans were good engineers with their water mills, viaducts, as well as Galen in the medical field, that greek fellow with his mechanical toys using pulleys, gears; the chinese with all of their inventions of 1500 years ago...and yet it seems that there has to be a cultural basis, a fruitful soil if you will, for innovation to flower in. Thus the Renaissance was the foundation of our industrial society. The stulifying effects of religion and ignorance were finally overcome by SCIENCE and enlightenment. Classic example : Pope John Paul finally apologizing to Galileo : yes, the earth is a spinning sphere; we admit we were wrong...300 years too late. Now we have ignorant bigots insisting the earth/universe is 6000 years old(ala bishop ussher of ireland, murphy must have been his middle name). Will it take THEM another 300 years to be enlightened?
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