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re: The most technologically advanced weapon of its day
Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:02 am to athenslife101
Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:02 am to athenslife101
I don't disagree with your research on this topic. Nonetheless, you need to get laid.
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Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:03 am to athenslife101
If history was still taught in schools, perhaps the newer generations would learn that it isn't the instrument that kills.
It's man. It's been that way for generations. They can't change it.
It's man. It's been that way for generations. They can't change it.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:06 am to fr33manator
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Are you suggesting the mongol horse archer wasn’t ridiculously advanced for its day?
He wasn't talking about the Mongol's time period, so this doesn't apply. His example was 2000 years earlier.
Mongol archers and nukes weren't around in the specific time period that this thread is about.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:09 am to athenslife101
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I meant that the Mongols dominated 1300 years after the trireme had been invented.
Longer than that. The Mongol empire was founded in 1206.
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As a ship it was fast and agile, and it was the dominant warship in the Mediterranean during the 7th to 4th centuries BC,
Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:10 am to athenslife101
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ready for a long easy siege on their part.
I thought you said they have to be pulled ashore every night? Doesn’t make for much of a siege
Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:33 am to athenslife101
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most technologically advanced weapon of its day
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the trireme
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athenslife101
Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:38 am to Graham Wellington Jr
Yeah, it’s hard to say exactly when it was upgraded from a bireme. I saw 800s BC. But if you quantify that by 0, most major navies were quaremes, I am guesstimating
Posted on 6/30/18 at 12:39 am to WaWaWeeWa
Eh, drop a couple of hundred soldiers off on the beach and then rotate ships from beaches to harbor. Just an example
This post was edited on 6/30/18 at 12:42 am
Posted on 6/30/18 at 1:09 am to athenslife101
Pretty good post, I would disagree with this statement:
The underrowers were not usually citizens and were not in fact side by side with those respected in the cities.
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represented democracy where rowers of all wealth levels rowed side by side.
The underrowers were not usually citizens and were not in fact side by side with those respected in the cities.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 1:17 am to athenslife101
Earth = Flat
That boat = Crap
That boat = Crap
Posted on 6/30/18 at 1:24 am to OysterPoBoy
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That sounds far but I think it’s only about a mile.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 1:35 am to tigerstripedjacket
The factoid I saw was in reference to Athenians. It may not be correct but Athens used those ships for 400 years so IDK. Maybe it’s wrong.
This post was edited on 6/30/18 at 1:44 am
Posted on 6/30/18 at 6:56 am to Darth Aranda
The “Rods of God”...... hard to beat if ever used. Space treaty “prohibits” such use even though it’s already in existence and ready to use at the drop of a dime.
Merica.... Come at us broseph!
Wiki.
Merica.... Come at us broseph!
Wiki.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 7:27 am to athenslife101
The bow and arrow
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:15 am to The Great McGinty
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The “Rods of God”
Well I just went down a rabbit hole reading about this. Seems to be unclear if it’s use is actually banned by the treaty as the treaty specifies the ban of WMDs. As these rods have no payload, the thought is that the current treaty would not apply.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:23 am to athenslife101
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Over 6000 man days was needed to construct one
16 years? Can this be true?
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:28 am to Grits N Shrimp
If it was 1 man building the boat, yes 16 years. 2 men 8 years. 6000 men could build it in a day.
Edit typo.
Edit typo.
This post was edited on 6/30/18 at 8:30 am
Posted on 6/30/18 at 8:58 am to The Great McGinty
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Space treaty “prohibits” such use
Actually, no it does not. The space treaty does not mention kinetic weapons in its terminology. Therefore, theoretically, the rod of god (if it is real) does not apply to the space treaty terms.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 10:10 am to athenslife101
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Athens used those ships for 400 years
Where did the wood come from?
You don't grow massive trees rapidly, especially in 'mediterranean' rainfall climates.
(The Brits planted trees somewhere in Eastern Canada so they'd have replacement masts in a hundred years or so, only when the trees were getting to the right height, ships were metal and no longer sailing.)
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