societal advances smackdown (0-1750 AD vs 1751 AD- present)

sugarpop · 03-19-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I believe you, but they sound like the rudimentary foundations of chemistry as a science, which was much later to become a useful tool of mankind, to me.

OK, I'll give you the chemistry, but not the other things I mentioned. there. You won. :p

dar512 · 03-19-2009, 02:42 PM

Chemistry (and all the other sciences for that matter) could never have been developed without the Arabic number system. Can you imagine doing logarithms in Roman numerals?

Other developments may be more spectacular, but the Arabic system and the invention of the zero are the most fundamental.

glatt · 03-19-2009, 03:02 PM

Without agriculture, none of it could have been done, because all those mathematicians and scientists would be spending all day rolling logs over looking for grubs to eat.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-20-2009, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by sugarpop

OK, I'll give you the chemistry, but not the other things I mentioned. there. You won. :p

Yeah, I know your pissed we have kids graduating from High School not knowing the strategic art of war that was developed by Sun Tzu. Maybe we could make them go to summer school at West Point, between their junior and senior year, for that.

sugarpop · 03-26-2009, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yeah, I know your pissed we have kids graduating from High School not knowing the strategic art of war that was developed by Sun Tzu. Maybe we could make them go to summer school at West Point, between their junior and senior year, for that.

You're the one who said all the ancient knowledge was rudimentary and stuff we teach kids in grade school. (They teach Sun Tzu at West Point?)

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03-19-2009, 03:02 PM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Without agriculture, none of it could have been done, because all those mathematicians and scientists would be spending all day rolling logs over looking for grubs to eat.

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