20 Jun
2004
20 Jun
'04
11:40 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Sokolov" <msokolov(a)ivan.harhan.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 7:15 PM
Subject: RE: Modern Electronics (Batteies)
There were times in history (such as after the fall of the roman empire)
where lots of technology was lost for centuries. An example would be roman
surgeons using analgesic silver staples to close wounds instead of later
generations using bacteria inducing thread.
But for the most part anything that is perceived as magic usually means the
society has more uneducated people then educated ones (or religion has
gotten in the way of scientific reason).
Who is more advanced, the society that invents gunpowder and uses it for
fireworks (Chinese) or the society (Europe) that uses gunpowder, a metal
ball, and steel barrels to shoot the inventor in the ass with a projectile?
Advanced to me is a mix of inventing something that was not there before,
and having a practical use for it at the same time.
David V. Corbin <dvcorbin(a)optonline.net> wrote:
> If a "sufficiently advanced technogoloy is indistinguishable from magic"
and
> many people that magic once existed on earth, is
it not possible that
the
older
civilizations were actually more advanced than ours?????
That's what Erich von Daniken, Zecharia Sitchin, Michael Cremo, David
Hatcher Childress and me have been saying for a long time.
MS