The Apocalypse
Power cuts, internet outages, mild inconvenience to your daily lives - how did you cope? Tell us your tales of pointless panic buying and hiding under the stairs.
thanks, ringofyre
( , Thu 14 Jun 2012, 14:15)
Power cuts, internet outages, mild inconvenience to your daily lives - how did you cope? Tell us your tales of pointless panic buying and hiding under the stairs.
thanks, ringofyre
( , Thu 14 Jun 2012, 14:15)
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But it was Archimedes and the Greeks who invented all that stuff.
The Romans were good at building stuff and fighting. They preserved rather than added to Greek knowledge. And the arab world retained the knowledge and re-introduced it to Renaissance Europe through Moorish spain so it wasn't exactly re-invented.
But apart from being completely wrong in every sense ... yes ... he's absolutely right.
( , Sat 16 Jun 2012, 19:10, closed)
The Romans were good at building stuff and fighting. They preserved rather than added to Greek knowledge. And the arab world retained the knowledge and re-introduced it to Renaissance Europe through Moorish spain so it wasn't exactly re-invented.
But apart from being completely wrong in every sense ... yes ... he's absolutely right.
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I think you will find that even the Greeks borrowed a lot of what they are credited with from the Sumerians.
( , Sun 17 Jun 2012, 22:41, closed)
That's probably my reiteration as opposed to his knowledge.
I don't listen that carefully to him most of the time.
( , Mon 18 Jun 2012, 8:36, closed)
I don't listen that carefully to him most of the time.
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