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by ApolloFortyNine 2620 days ago
Nowhere did I say it would be easy.

Just as far as anyone can tell, they never realized the 'toy' could have a real world use.

Had they thought of an application, they could work on making it possible. They thought it was just a parlor trick.

>Second, Roman knowledge wasn't lost. It was all still there in the Byzantine Empire yet strangely they weren't sending rockets to the moon in the 1200's.

Seriously, what the fuck, why are you attacking me.