9th August 2005, 1:33 PM
Well first of all the idea wasn't really to make it seem "real". My idea was just setting it in pseudo modern times. Whether it's completely believable or not wouldn't be an issue.
And now, 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.
And oh yes, no one's found Atlantis yet.
Sorry about that, but I know some people that take their fantasies too far. It's why I can't actually suspend my disbelief all the way. What if I go insane? I FEAR GOING INSANE TO THE POINT OF IT BEING A DEBILITATING MENTAL CONDITION!
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Moving along, yeah come to think of it Mario, Zelda, Metroid, there are a LOT of similarities, especially in the current generation's games. They are the same genre which for different considerations are called by different names.
And now, 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.
And oh yes, no one's found Atlantis yet.
Sorry about that, but I know some people that take their fantasies too far. It's why I can't actually suspend my disbelief all the way. What if I go insane? I FEAR GOING INSANE TO THE POINT OF IT BEING A DEBILITATING MENTAL CONDITION!
...
Moving along, yeah come to think of it Mario, Zelda, Metroid, there are a LOT of similarities, especially in the current generation's games. They are the same genre which for different considerations are called by different names.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)