Pyramids lasting close to 5000 years and have been gazed upon by people of past civilizations with awe.
2006-09-28 15:36:02 · 18 answers · asked by FreeWilly 4 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Mount Rushmore
Crazy Horse Mountain
Millenium Clock see the link below, amazing and visionary
Some aspects of the space program
There are others, but they all require(d) a vision that trancends a single human lifetime.
As a society, we live in the now. As idividuals we also largely live in the now.
If YOU want a pyramid young sir, you better get to work!
2006-09-29 05:04:58 · answer #1 · answered by aka DarthDad 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps we already have. But we wouldn't know because we can't go ahead 5000 years and check it out. To the Egyptians that lived during the time of the pharoahs, I doubt the pyramids seemed as great as most now think they are.
2006-09-28 22:45:02 · answer #2 · answered by DragonOpinion 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Remember that the pyramids are great and a wonder of the world because of their location, because of their size, height, and because they are in the middle of a sand dessert. There were no cameras, no recorders, not too much to go on to figure out how they were built. Today our resources are abundant - we have planes, helicopters, and dump trucks that allow us to build Islands where there weren't any before.. We can build something great, but it would be overlooked because the mystery would be solved before it was completed..
2006-09-28 22:57:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, a number of people are working on just such a project. Unfortunately, the "timelessness" has to do with designing containment sites for nuclear waste and designing warning signs and other features that will survive long-term exposure to the elements and remain comprehensible to people for potentially thousands of years. This line of research is actually quite interesting as includes engineers, linguists, anthropologists, and a number of other specialists all working together to design a warning system for long-term waste dumps in the US such as Yucca Mountain in Nevada and a pilot-program site in New Mexico. Alas, not monuments designed for the glorification and ongoing afterlife of a deified king, but they are drawing on long-lasting monumens such as the pyramids for inspiration.
We are still capable of doing such a thing. Nor is it entirely clear that buildings constructed today are unlikely to survive for the same length of time as structures such as the pyramids. It's simply that the majority of people in modern society no longer have priorities that involve constructing huge monuments to themselves in desert environments that will preserve such monuments.
2006-09-29 02:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by F 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
we are building many things today that may appear to people of the future as timeless, amazing, and historical as something like the Great Pyramids of Egypt appear to us. try to think of culture as something dynamic: something going on around us all the time, moving and changing and moving and changing things with it, including our perspectives. culture isn't something old, timeless, or just to be gazed upon with awe... it is everywhere!
it is perhaps the most unnoticed elements of society and culture--the unconciously unperceived traditions and attitudes-- that leave the most awesome profound effects. does this help, or were you more asking about building something timeless in terms of actual technical architectural terms??? i hope this helps!!
2006-09-28 23:49:40 · answer #5 · answered by eo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you know how many people worked on a Pyramid ?
Do you know how much that would cost ?
We don't have the money for it sorry !
Besides , Lady Liberty might survive 5000 years , who knows !
2006-09-29 16:50:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The pyramids and other great monuments took years to build. Nobody has the patience to do that anymore. If it's not instant, forget it.
2006-09-28 22:45:50 · answer #7 · answered by RockwallCat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We could, and maybe we already have. But, I wonder how much of the GNP was consumed in the construction of monuments for the ruler.
Now we are a little more careful on how we use resources. We don't squander that large a percentage on grave markers.
2006-09-29 20:34:10 · answer #8 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pharaohs are not subjected to scrutiny by the media or need to stand for re-election.
Any president or prime minister who suggest something of a similar scale today will not only be booted out of office - but also be sent to the asylum of observation.
2006-09-28 22:47:50 · answer #9 · answered by Lee S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We forgot how when busy figuring out how to land on the moon. And it's hard to create a lease/co-op arrangement because nobody want to rent the bottom brick.
2006-09-28 23:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by rideitmark 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋