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DetlefK

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1. Wait. What happened to Noah's technology after the flood?
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 08:15 AM
Mar 2016

All this technological knowledge about mechanics, forces, levers, whinges, cogs, cranes... What happened to that knowledge? Why did Noah's successors no longer have that knowledge for millennia to come?

Even if the mankind of the year 2016 lost all of its technology in an apocalyptic event and were thrown back to Bronze-Age level, we have the knowledge to rebuild and re-invent EVERYTHING within 200 years tops.
Why?
Because we wouldn't need to research those technologies. We would already know how to cast iron, how to build a steam-machine, how to calculate the statics of a building, how to build a combustion-engine, how to refine crude oil, how to vulcanize rubber, how to make plastics, how to build pumps, how to build electrochemical batteries, how to build electronics, how to build wind-mill electricity-generators, how to build electronic calculators from vacuum tubes, how to conserve food, how to fight illnesses, how to produce chemicals...
For a brief period in the 1950s there were computers who were entirely mechanical!!!





And remember, we don’t know how ancient people built many of the stone structures in South America or even the remarkably constructed Egyptian pyramids.

Ramps. The super-technology they used to build the pyramids were ramps.

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