Posted on 06/04/2007 10:50:49 AM PDT by blam
VERY well.
Thank you.
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So did I!
Since you started it (nearly two years ago), a smaller, less robust infrastructure makes it easier to destroy, and harder to rebuild.
Look at Larry Niven's "Ring World". That world had a power failure caused by a bug eating the organic control wiring, and they were unable to recover.
To think that I knew Patton from his early days of writing bodice rippers!
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that is really cool.
Read it one day in high school, between math classes.
I never write bodice-rippers. I write love stories, that get me in trouble.
Thank you - typos on the internet never die...LOL.
I've often wondered about this, as well. Even the 19-year Metonic cycle calls for a lot of careful record-keeping by settled people. However, they didn't need thousands of years to observe the effects of precession.
It was understood, or at least recognized, by the 1st century BC, I am told, though the ancients probably did not attribute it to any wobbling in their earth's spin.
If you doubt it, study language. Look at the complexity of Sanskrit and ask yourself why they even needed such an elaborate tongue, in their simpler times; and see how crude our modern languages are, in comparison.
It's what one would expect with a shrinking world population.
Just 2 generations ago, there were still enough people around to support such infrastructure easily.
Every year, more and more of our ancestors die, leaving fewer and fewer people. Simple powers of 2 regression:
Everyone has 2 parents; and 4 grandparents, etc. At that rate, it doesn't take long to see that it wasn't all that long ago that we had 100,000,000,000+ population.
Given the shear numbers, it's no wonder they were able to hand stack piles of rock that we can't even begin to duplicate with machinery.
Thanks 668 - Neighbor of the Beast and ApplegateRanch.
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