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Old 03-14-2009, 03:47 PM   #3
classicman
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We can't figure how they did certain things, or built certain things. I mean sure, we could build pyramids today, but could we do it without relying on anything that wasn't here 5000 years ago?
Some we can do much easier and some we cannot figure out....leading to the show we are all watching tonight. We'll see.
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So are we going to discuss it here afterwards or something?
OH yeh - it'll be all the rage tomorrow.
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Of course, if we also had some things that they did have - vast amounts of expendable slave labor and a supreme executive who can direct a significant amount of the wealth of the nation into a vanity project.
Exactly - the whole work till you die, literally, too bad we don't have that anymore. (just kidding)
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