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Originally Posted by cookie_365
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Oh, and Mr Dave Stones - I'll have my special funky disco medallion capable of emitting beams of grooviness to thwart your evil sabotage. Remember: disco's like a bad cold; it just won't go away !  |
I'll take the disco over the curent bad cold that won't go away I'm suffering with.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
If nobody now knows how they did it, how can someone go back in time to show them?  
One of the first things I realised studying archaeology is that modern humans have a tendency to equate a lack of technological advancement with a lack of intelligence. When you actually hold ancient artefacts in your hands - like a perfectly carved ceremonial axehead, made of polished Langdale slate - you realise that these people were just as real and just as intelligent as you or I, and in some cases more so. I am sure the Egyptians managed to build the pyramids all by themselves. Just because we can't work out how to solve a problem using a limited set of tools and resources doesn't mean that nobody back then was capable of solving it!
If I were to go back in time, I might visit Egypt too, to watch them building the pyramids and to ask them what the Sphynx is for. However I would nip forwards in time first to acquire some Universal Translator kind of technology as I am a right dunce at learning other languages. |
Equally it would be very interesting to go back and see places like NASA and BAE/Aerospacial in the '50 and '60s developing space vehicles and Mach 2 passenger jets with little or no computer technology.
The latest Boeing and Airbus designs are so dependant on CAD for design and construction processes that I doubt most there would be able to concieve that those coming up to retirement age did this all on paper.
I mean that nifty gadget the Digital watch hadn't even been invented (c) H2G2.