[Rant ((I guess))]Why I hate the Romans

[The Duchess of Zeon]

I don't mean to be blunt, but those theories have been thoroughly debunked, and to press them on this board could be to open one's self to an unkind treating.

[Soulman]

Zaia, Kojikun, go here and read every article:

http://www.thehallofmaat.com/maat/index.php

Particularly on the Orion Correlation Theory.

Nice site, thanks...

[Peregrin Toker]

The egyptians built the original sphynx around 10-12kya as evidenced by the rain weathering. They carved blocks out the size of train cars. They MOVED blocks of stone as big as a train car, and supposedly werent even out of the caves.

Ponder that one.

Don't forget that it originally resembled a Great Old One.

[2000AD]

2000AD. The Romans didn't even have long division, (impossible to do with roman numeral) much less algebra. Calculus was a long way down the road. Sir Isaac Newton is credited with inventing algebra, although he only beat his rival with the same system by a few hours (days?) to the "patent office." The number zero is required to do higher math. So is the decimal point, which has the number zero as it's prerequisite.
TRY to do multiplication, and division, in Roman numerals I dare you. It is impossible. (unless you convert to base ten, in your head) Same with fractions.

But Archimedes was a Greek not a Roman. One of my maths teachers said that it was found that Archimedes was doing calculus and i wondered if there was any truth to it. Given some of the stuff he made for the defence of his town would it be surprising?

[Darth Gojira]

Given some of the stuff he made for the defence of his town would it be surprising?

Without Archimedes, there would be no Blofeld, or for that matter, Dr. Evil.

[Publius]

Playing hookie from school is fun, especially with cable, with cable comes the history channel, and with History comes learning. Today was interesting, as a show about the greatest losses in history was on. I caught the part about the fire in London that burnt down the majority of the city and then Alexandria. Now I had an inkling of what was so special about Alexandria, The Great Library. I also understood that it was lost. What I didn't know was that they supposedly had an actual working model of a steam engine. And you know what else I learned? The Roman's burnt it down! That's right, because the emperor at the time couldn't keep it in his pants and cleopatra was such an amazing seductress, it got burnt down. Bastards....

There was no Roman emperor at that time. The Library of Alexandria was burned in AC 47; the first Roman emperor, Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus (né Gaius Octavius, subsequently known simply as Imperator Caesar Augustus), did not take power until AC 27, fully twenty years later (and even when he did so, his formal title was princeps senatus, or "first man of the senate").

The Romans in Alexandria when the Royal Library was burnt were under the command of Gaius Iulius Caesar, who was at that time dictator, his term of office being one year rather than the constitutional six months; this is the famed Julius Caesar, whose grand nephew/posthumously adopted son subsequently became Caesar Augustus.

It is generally believed that the fire which destroyed the Royal Library was the one mentioned by Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Civilo when he set fire to the Alexandrian fleet and dockyard because he could not otherwise securely hold so wide an area with his small force; it is accepted by most historians that the destruction of the Royal Library was inadvertent, not intentionally done.

Publius

[2000AD]

Given some of the stuff he made for the defence of his town would it be surprising?

Without Archimedes, there would be no Blofeld, or for that matter, Dr. Evil.

???

[Darth Gojira]

Given some of the stuff he made for the defence of his town would it be surprising?

Without Archimedes, there would be no Blofeld, or for that matter, Dr. Evil.

???

Archimedes reportedly built towers which used mirrors to create a pseudo-laser beam which gave the Romans a hard time during the siege of Syracruse in the Roman campaign to destroy Carthage's allies.

[His Divine Shadow]

The working model of the steam engine survived until the fall of Byzantium. Problem was that no one had any practical application for it.

And too many slaves to just get rid off.

[His Divine Shadow]

Zaia, Kojikun, go here and read every article:

http://www.thehallofmaat.com/maat/index.php

Particularly on the Orion Correlation Theory.

Oh I'm tired, just tell me what to think.