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- From: xiong@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Chuyu Xiong)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,soc.culture.china
- Subject: Re: Ancient Chinese Deep-Drilling Technology ???
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 13:06:47 -0500
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
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- In article <72722@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
- >I recently acquired a copy of _A_Petroleum_Handbook_, 2nd ed.
- >(Asiatic Petroleum Company, 1938), and on page 44 it has an
- >amazing account of early Chinese well-drilling technology which
- >I find almost unbelievable.
- >
- It is "unbelievable". I am always wonder how those antient people
- could sail cross ocean, how could make iron and copper, how could
- invent china, how could solve complicated math problems in mind,
- .... You can doubt it, very heathly, just like I always try to do.
- But, you have to face the facts: they are true.
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- I came from Sichuan where the antient drilling tech is still living
- today. I think you can go there to find a 1000 meter deep well
- drilled several hundrad years ago easily. You can also find some
- place such tech is in exhibit. About west media, I do not know where
- you can find hard evidence. But, I remember about 2 years ago, Nova
- aired a movie titled something like "The genius was Chinese", in it,
- you can see the scence of the antient drilling and tech. You may try
- to find out by calling PBS.
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- I think some day, we are going to become antient people too. Perhaps,
- people in next century will wonder how those people in this century
- can do such such just having some junk computer, just exactly like
- you can I are doing today. I would say, while tech are moving fast,
- the talent of people are actually not moving. So, the so called talent
- things which today's people can do can be done by antient people too.
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- Chuyu Xiong
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