@Daft_ish to Ask Lemmy • edit-26 months agoHow likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?message-square52arrow-up1186arrow-down18
arrow-up1178arrow-down1message-squareHow likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?@Daft_ish to Ask Lemmy • edit-26 months agomessage-square52
minus-square@MrsDoylelink27•6 months agoGo back even further - there were some very clever people people around in ancient times. Example: the Antikythera device. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism Who knows what they might have come up with? So much knowledge was lost to fire and flood and warfare over the centuries.
minus-square@Harbinger01173430link0•6 months agoDidn’t the Romans accomplish something similar when they built the temple of Jupiter? Those dudes were truly onto something.
Go back even further - there were some very clever people people around in ancient times. Example: the Antikythera device. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Who knows what they might have come up with? So much knowledge was lost to fire and flood and warfare over the centuries.
Stone henge. Pyramids. Etc.
Didn’t the Romans accomplish something similar when they built the temple of Jupiter?
Those dudes were truly onto something.