When you really look at it it turns out the only main two things that ancients didn't have that we have today are electricity and antibiotics. And there is even some evidence that possible civilizations like a version of the Egyptian civilization had some rudimentary forms of electricity including batteries. And of course they had workarounds for antibiotics but they certainly weren't as effective as taking a pill against a lot of diseases. The more interesting thing is the analog workarounds they had for so many different things that we use electricity for now. They had evaporative air conditioning or rather evaporative refrigeration for example with clay pots to keep things cool. They literally bought huge chunks of ice which they stored All Summer Long in many places to use for refrigeration. They had various versions of wind power. They mastered many things such as transmission of power of the ropes and police across long distances. So even though they didn't have electricity they had many workarounds for what we use electricity for today with the major exception being of course any kind of advance computing although the escalonara mechanism that was found underwater was obviously an extremely advanced geared computer. And that I think is something like 2,000 years old. If they could make that for World navigation by ship to precisely know their positions based on the positions of the Moon and the Sun then they certainly could have used the same techniques to do other kinds of computing with gears. And I'm sure they did we just haven't ever found it before because anything made of metal like that is going to deteriorate pretty fast. In actual fact there are many of the old techniques that we could adopt today that would really be better than paying an electrical utility company an ever-increasing amount of money for electricity.
Crackinjokes 0 points 2.5 years ago
When you really look at it it turns out the only main two things that ancients didn't have that we have today are electricity and antibiotics. And there is even some evidence that possible civilizations like a version of the Egyptian civilization had some rudimentary forms of electricity including batteries. And of course they had workarounds for antibiotics but they certainly weren't as effective as taking a pill against a lot of diseases. The more interesting thing is the analog workarounds they had for so many different things that we use electricity for now. They had evaporative air conditioning or rather evaporative refrigeration for example with clay pots to keep things cool. They literally bought huge chunks of ice which they stored All Summer Long in many places to use for refrigeration. They had various versions of wind power. They mastered many things such as transmission of power of the ropes and police across long distances. So even though they didn't have electricity they had many workarounds for what we use electricity for today with the major exception being of course any kind of advance computing although the escalonara mechanism that was found underwater was obviously an extremely advanced geared computer. And that I think is something like 2,000 years old. If they could make that for World navigation by ship to precisely know their positions based on the positions of the Moon and the Sun then they certainly could have used the same techniques to do other kinds of computing with gears. And I'm sure they did we just haven't ever found it before because anything made of metal like that is going to deteriorate pretty fast. In actual fact there are many of the old techniques that we could adopt today that would really be better than paying an electrical utility company an ever-increasing amount of money for electricity.