9th August 2005, 2:02 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:regarding pyramids. You know why pyramids happen to be all over the world? It's because that shape is the simplest way to build gigantic structures existing only for their size. Why do people like building this stuff? Because all humans are basically the same across the planet. There's no real mystery in the same sense that it is no great mystery as to why all guns have straight barrels. The laws of physics tend to restrain what we are capable of so there will be some similarities. Until some new engineering principles involving using triangles to support a structure, or collumns using the strength of a shape like a cylinder for support, allowing for things like skyscrapers came along, well, if you wanted a giant godly structure, you went with something that worked. What works? Something that gets wider at the same rate of load increase. You see it as sand falls in an hour glass all the time, a simple evolution in which the base gets bigger at the same rate that the amount of sand increases by. To make a connection, there better be something more than just the fact that lots of cultures made pyramids.
lazyfatbum Wrote:look at it all the theories that are crafted on why there are pyramids on every corner of the globe and how they're all built with the same design and architecture. I love the theory about how Atlantians fled the sinking city and spread across the world to build their grand pyramids in different cultures and spread their wealth of knowledge when in reality the reason the pyramids all look the same is because if you want to build a giant structure for your God or a tomb for your king the only you can make it is out of heavy stone stacked in to a pyramid shape in order for it to be excessively large and not buckle under its own weight.
Thank you for repeating everything I said DJ. :D
As far as the realism factor I wasn't just taking your idea in to account but a meshing of yours and mine. If the story was going to be grounded in reality then it must appear so even with fantastic flights of fantasy.