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I found it interesting wandering around the ancient sites in Egypt to see what survived 4000 years. Granite was the easy winner followed by heaped structures of softer rocks.
Doesn't something lasting 4,000 years imply massive over-engineering?
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Who says we can't replicate them? It's just not economical to do so and really serves no purpose. The world has generally moved past projects with superstitious/dubious meaning attached to them and does an actual cost/benefit on most large scale endeavors. Except for some developing countries with growing economies who have something to prove.
You are correct we probably can today. The biggest prehistoric megalith blocks are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500 tons, perfectly milled. The modern record for the largest structure lifted by crane is 20,000 tons. So we have an order of magnitude capability on be ancients. However what is certainly true is that there was a long period in between where we couldn’t. From at least 1000 BC to sometime in the 1900…
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I'm a software engineer that went through architecture school and I think you're glorifying architects a bit here. The only reason why architects have a more gradual path as you describe is because there is a LOT of gatekeeping and feedback on your work is a LOT slower. To become an architect you have to ideally go through schooling at a specific set of schools and then after that you have years of internships where…
Same applies to countries where Software/Informatics Engineering is a proper title certified by the Engineering National Council, not a paper title. http://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especia... https://www.anerkennung-in-deutschland.de/html/en/engineerin...
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You are correct we probably can today. The biggest prehistoric megalith blocks are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500 tons, perfectly milled. The modern record for the largest structure lifted by crane is 20,000 tons. So we have an order of magnitude capability on be ancients. However what is certainly true is that there was a long period in between where we couldn’t. From at least 1000 BC to sometime in the 1900…
I think we will find proof if we start digging into the flood deltas and the near shore oceans depths. The floods at the beginning and end of the younger dryas washed over most, if not all of the earths land mass, in a catastrophic way. Then the sea rises, burying the washed out remains of civilization under a few hundred feet of saltwater. If were going to find anything, I think it will be there. That's my hypothesi…
