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Old 03-14-2009, 01:59 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
Because people fall asleep in the middle of the show.
They discovered and demonstrated the principles, but they were thinkers/tinkerers that were living at the top of the heap.
They could have used the priciples to do actual work but then would have had to find something else for the slaves and servants to do.
The principles wouldn't be used until somebody figured out how to make a buck on it
Well apparently the people of the ancient world were a lot more ingenious than most of the people of today. Not to be insulting to modern man, but think about it. 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?
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