From this, to this. ...Boy how have we digressed
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I'm a retired commercial builder and the designed obsolescence for most commercial buildings today is about 50 years. This is not to say that the buildings will collapse after 50 years but that they will require a major overhaul at that point to update the building technology in them or the land on which they were built will no longer be utilized to the highest and best use. If the buildings were abandoned for 50 years with no ongoing maintenance then they would approach structural failure.
The great ancient monuments that survive today and have stood for at least several thousand years were built to last, without maintenance or updating and arguably they are still their highest and best use of the land. I think we would benefit greatly from a more objective study of ancient monuments, using multiple scientific disciplines working on an equal footing with archeologists and without being forced to work within the current framework of accepted theories that were largely developed over a century ago with a Western and Christian bias.
I am not suggesting that the aliens did it but I am suggesting that there are too many doctoral degrees in archeology that depend upon maintaining dated theories that do not advance our understanding of human history.
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