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| MT:
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| SiliconWizard:
Did they have electric cars as well? |
| Dan123456:
“This is nonsense right?” Why yes, yes it is :-DD I’m all for accepting that ancient people were definitely not stupid and probably did have a better understanding of some things than what we give them credit for but this looks like jewellery / religious offerings to me (especially if they were found in a temple) :P Precious metals were seen as Devine materials all over the world in ancient world! Think Egypt, South America etc. You always find gold, silver and copper at their religious sites. |
| MT:
--- Quote from: Dan123456 on January 20, 2024, 04:44:11 am ---“This is nonsense right?” Why yes, yes it is :-DD I’m all for accepting that ancient people were definitely not stupid and probably did have a better understanding of some things than what we give them credit for but this looks like jewellery / religious offerings to me (especially if they were found in a temple) :P Precious metals were seen as Devine materials all over the world in ancient world! Think Egypt, South America etc. You always find gold, silver and copper at their religious sites. --- End quote --- Baghdad battery. Not Baghdad Bob! https://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/battery2.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on January 20, 2024, 04:37:55 am ---Did they have electric cars as well? --- End quote --- Yes they had electric cars and scooters, but the had very short range! :D |
| SiliconWizard:
Yeah, this is similar to the Baghdad battery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery No proof whatsoever that it was used for generating electricity and making anything useful out of it. Sure we have no proof of the opposite either, but when something leaves no historical trace and is an alleged lost knowledge that would have been completely forgotten for centuries before being rediscovered again, the probability is very low. Once we figured out how to master fire and the knowledge propagated, we never forgot how to do that, not for a single year that I have heard of in the history of mankind. For instance. Same for pretty much all great discoveries. Now one could maybe argue that some discoveries didn't find any sufficiently remarkable use for them to stick, and may have been forgotten for a long time due to their lack of usefulness at the time. Maybe. Can we consider them real discoveries in that case? Were people at the time even aware that it was something worth considering a discovery at all? |
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