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The Ancient Mechanics and How They Thought
nytimes.com — The Archimedes Project studies the history of mechanics and how people turned their thoughts about simple machines into theories and principles.
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- Jovensdesciple, on 04/02/2008, -9/+1I wish that the liberals of today would turn what they thought into silence. Sweet sweet silence.
- bromac, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4"Shut up and put up" eh?
Guess what? Freedom of speech is a blessed thing. It's also a constitutional right. I disagree with what you say, but at least I don't wish you to be silent on issues.
- bromac, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4"Shut up and put up" eh?
- laserblazer, on 04/02/2008, -1/+1Slot A goes into Tab B.
- MrPeach, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0You're not doing it right.
- GeorgeStone2, on 04/02/2008, -1/+2I often wonder how I would have thought had I been born back when people were in the dark about basic mechanical workings. I think I would be considered a lot smarter than I am today :P
- Pixelante, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1People in the past were usually smarter. They had to in order to survive and reach their objectives. They had nothing to fall back on.
The average digger would not last one day in that environment.- GeorgeStone2, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2I could see them being better at English language.
But nothing much past that.
The average Digger would be able to explain the mechanics of something much better than most of the scientists 150 years ago.
But I guess it's a moot point, because we learned from their work.
- GeorgeStone2, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2I could see them being better at English language.
- Stevethegreat, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1What you know doesn't make you smarter, it gives you the chance to become smart but nothing more. If you lived back then and knew as much as you know today you would have to arrive there by logical deduction which would really make you pretty darn smart, but -again- it wouldn't be your knowledge on matters that would make you smart but your deductive reasoning.
Of course there's in an alternate theory which says that you would go back then -with you present knowledge- by using sth like a time machine or sth. In which case you would be seen to be as smart (or dumb) as you're today, even if you would be considered knowledgeable people would be able to see how intelligent you really are. The same can be seen today in the form of professors who although they have the knowledge of things they lack their deep understanding which implies their intelligence (or wisdom) , in opposition to those professors who don't only know their thing but they can also give you a deeper understating of the matter.
To summarize what I am concluding onto is that it doesn't matter what your know but instead what it matters is your "modus operandi" (the way in which you function/think).
- Pixelante, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1People in the past were usually smarter. They had to in order to survive and reach their objectives. They had nothing to fall back on.
- seejunaid, on 04/02/2008, -1/+1what people thought about Space in those days? :P
- fatas, on 04/02/2008, -6/+152 digs and on the front page. Did MS give some extra funds to digg, so any negative story about how it hijacked ISO doesn't reach front page.
- roodammy44, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4By god, will everyone shut up about "only 50 diggs and it got to the front page"
It's about 5x more annoying than rick rolling.
At least spam has a different message each time.
- roodammy44, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4By god, will everyone shut up about "only 50 diggs and it got to the front page"
- BriVaps, on 04/11/2008, -0/+0i was thinking about anchient times today
just looking around the landscape, imagining I didnt know about planets and stars and stuff like that
trying too imagine the earth as the end all be all of existance
trying to wear the shoes of anchient man and thinking that god created this wonderfull earth
i like that place better better
but alas, i know about science, and how tiny and speck like the earth is in the universe
ahhhh the good old days - Interlux, on 04/11/2008, -0/+0The ancients' reliance upon cheap slave labor prevented them from ever realizing the full potential of their civilization. There is a lesson to be learned here. If you suppress human dignity things will go terribly wrong for you eventually.
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