> Let's not forget that all around the world
> indigenous people sit on top of the remnants of
> previous monuments that they're ancestors made but
> are clueless as to how they were built or who
> built them.




Name four.

No that's too simple. Here's eight actually nine.


How about the great pyramid of Egypt? The Egyptians haven't built any of those in awhile. Don't see any "How to build a pyramid" classes being offered. Though I have heard that the desperately poor in Egypt set up residence in abandoned tombs. Oh..Wait that's too obvious.

1) The easter islanders. When European civilization rediscovered them, they found a bunch of native who had no idea how to build them, they just knew their ancestors had done it. So, Let's see the remaining natives carve much less erect one of those massive statues. Can any of them explain how the multi ton "hats" were placed on these statues? uhhh... Yeah that's kinda what I thought.

2) The mayan indians in Central america. Show me any group that can erect one of the giant stelas. that are there. Much less build one of their massive and abandoned cities. Show me any one of them, without formal training from an acknoweledged university, that can still read and write the ancient mayan script.

3) Let's see the peasants in Anaotlia carve out some of the huge tombs in Hatti land

4) Now let's go to South America and see how many modern day incas can create another Machu pichu. I'll bet the number is somewhere around ZERO.

5) How about the nasca lines in south America? I don't see any of the folks down their creating any more of them. Bet they're utterly clueless too as to how to make them.

6) Do the present day hopi indians of NOrth America know how to build some more of their incredible "cities" in Arizona caves? Not that I know of.

7) How about the "hanging coffins" in China? NObody's tried that for a thousand years AFAIK.

8) Finally NOrth America late 20th century. Years ago I worked at Lockeed and bemoaned the fact that the space program collapsed and we had abandoned our foothold on the moon. My fellow aerospace worker told me that we couldn't go to the moon because we didn't have the "gas". I thought he was speaking metaphorically, and "gas" being symbolic for "energy", "initiative", "vision", "perservance" etc. No what he meant was "gasoline". I tried to inform him that rockets were fueled by liquid hydrogen and oxygen cominations and there was an abundant supply of those two substances. He insisted that it was gasonline. I told him that Americans burned up more gas just turning their cars on in the morning and driving to work than was needed to fly to the moon. Again he disagreed...So I seeing that arguing with fools is folly dropped the subject. But it amazed me that somebody who was in the industry using the same machines that were used to build the apollo rockets and other advanced aerospace equipment had no idea how to build a rocket or how rockets were powered, already the technology was being "forgotten". Seeing how we've torn up all the rocket pads, dismantled all of the equipment for lunar shots, and the fact that most of the egineers that built apollo are now either old men, retired, or dead, "lunar landings" definitely fall in the "lost technology" by a previous superior civilization. However the fact that we've abandoned the moon forever (regardless of what Bush says about going to Mars.) there are other countries that will go, and undoubtedly future archeologists will wonder why we built a massive technology and infrastructure for outer space and then literally destroyed it over night