Posted: Nov 06, 2012 9:12 pm
Penser wrote:What is your point Thommo?
You have quoted a fact so I can only assume you agree with me. We are unable to build a pyramid (for example) of the same magnitude as those found in the valley of the kings, Egypt with our current technologies and tools available to us. Unless of course you have managed to do it?
What makes you think we are unable to build a pyramid using current technologies and tools?
Just because we haven't doesn't mean we cannot. It would be much easier, in many ways, to design and build than many modern skyscrapers.
Of course, pyramids have absolutely no utility in the modern world - so there's no incentive to build one. But that doesn't make them impossible, or even challenging.
Now yes, it would be a challenge to build using the tools and techniques available to the ancient Egyptians. We don't have the same utility in those skills - they've been forgotten, because they're useless in the modern world. But that doesn't mean we couldn't relearn them and build the pyramids as the ancients built them either - all it means is that we haven't, again because there's no reason to.