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Originally Posted by Jakez
Understand your point but think about what it would be like if all there really was to do all day was play with dirt and build things with it. They didn't have a million options on what to do with their free time or all of technology and other distractions wasting their life away like we do today. They had a lot of brain power focused on doing nothing but building a pyramid. Our brain power today is spread out across the tons of things that there are to do, none of which is building a giant pyramid of rocks.  |
What is puzzling is how far advanced that civilization was compared to ones before it and after it.
On the first page of this thread is a YT video and the cover pic is of a little artifact from that time. Some scientists created a much larger one built to exact scale and put it in a wind tunnel where it was able to fly. Two things stand out. One, it has a " rudder " just like on a plane but no planes existed at that time and no birds have a rudder or anything similar. Second, the " wing " had a foil shape to it which is instrumental in giving the object lift which enables it to fly.
Those two elements are essential to fly and that little artifact contained everything needed to fly except a power source. Who ever made that knew what it takes to fly. However, it wasn't until the Wright Brothers took that first flight did man make a serious attempt at flying.
So man didn't know how to fly. Then the Egyptians knew how to fly. Then man didn't know how to fly. Then a thousand plus years later man knows how to fly again.