However their executives and CEO's felt that making pyramids and other huge megolithic stone structures that we would have great difficulty doing now (if we could), would be cheaper, and provide a better cost/benenfit ratio and perhaps more profit??
In a sense the Pyramids were public works, and after seeing the crappy workmanship on several public works in my area, where politicians have sold out quality in the pursuit of the almighty dollar (and principles too with the employees their contractors use), I do not think that we could construct them with the same or higher quality. Color me jade.
do you actually think they may have known how to make steel 12000 years ago, but their Accountants and Executives conducted a cost/benefit analysis and found it was too expensive to make?
Perhaps the ancient civilization lived in an area where natural resources were scarce. Consider the Japanese; they knew about steel but rarely used it as the ores were very scarce and thus expensive, having to have to be extracted from sands.
Or perhaps efficient ways of acquiring the high temperatures required to smelt steel weren't around. Maybe some South American people discovered steel but didn't use it as they only had tropical wood to burn, which made smelting difficult? It is possible that we just haven't discovered their steel yet. Shoot, we just discovered a whole
metropolis of theirs 100 years ago (Machu Picchu).
Quality steel was difficult to procure and expensive to make until the Industrial Revolution anyhow.
I'm also not sure why you, Richard L, consider it absurd that the ancient peoples had accountants and such. The Romans clearly had these people. Also, there are numerous devices crafted in antiquity that humans could not recreate for thousands of years. It took humanity almost 1.5 millenia to be able to recreate the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism">Antikythera mechanism</a>, and 1.8 millenia to create similar devices of superior complexity.
The Romans invented hydraulic mining and other mining techniques which allowed them to have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_metallurgy#Output">a level of mining not exceeded until the Industrial Revolution, almost 1000 years later.</a> I'm not finding it difficult for some even older ancient civilization to figure out that iron becomes better when it gets some carbon infused. If one civilization can have technology which outperforms all others long after it is gone (the Romans), why can't another, such as a 12,000 year old civilization which could have steel? Making steel isn't rocket science. Again, even the comparatively primitive and technologically backwards ancient Japanese were able to create steel, and they couldn't even create their own original written language (Chinese scholars brought it across the sea. The Chinese also gave Japan its name.)
Yep. He made the fossils. He tricks us by falsifying the science behind carbon dating. Also, erosion as a slow process is a false, man-made concept as the Grand Canyon is really only a few thousand years old, and a huge underwater canyon carved by the great flood.
I've heard that <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020:5&version=KJV">God is a jealous God</a>, but never a practical jokester :grin: :bwahaha: