Just run with me on this. Just having fun speculating..
If they had the tech to make aircraft like the giant flying condor I wonder what else the original people who used it had. Also why wouldn't any of that survive to the present day?
Also why wouldn't any of that survive to the present day?
I found a lot of it really didn't make any sense.
If they had the ability to make fusion reactors, the flying olmec machine (which I assume was the Hiva people's invention), why were their cities of made of stone?
I never did understand why the ruined cities were stone, yet their technology was hundreds of years more advanced.
Seems that all their tech was basically stored in statis of some kind, the condor, the flying olmec machine and the fusion reactor, all of them were stored in some fashion, the condor was stored under the temple floor, the olmec machine in the mountain and the reactor in the city of gold.
Maybe they kept it all for a rainy day (for when it was needed) but that day never came and they all died .
shareLol, well from memory of the story line, the emperor of Hiva foresaw the day when his civilization would collapse (the war with Atlantis), so decided to build 7 cities of gold, I assume to preserve technology, like the reactor and all those books.
Still doesn't make much sense though, why leave superior technology to people who have only just invented gunpowder?
And why build a facility in a mountain, which the reactor was designed to power, but then put said reactor in the city of gold?
If the reactor and city of gold was meant to be found by children, what possible use would they have?
In Season 2, they say it isn't gold after all, but some mysterious metal which absorbs energy to power things, like the condor)
There's a season 2?
The series I saw ended with the kids flying off in the Condor
Oh yea, new season was made last year or the year before
It's not to bad, not as good as the original in my opinion.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2563792/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6
Although they had advanced flying machines and the flashback scenes implied that they used "weapons of the sun" (nuclear weapons) this doesn't necessarily mean that they had the same kind of modern society we have today where technology is everywhere and available to a lot of people. Maybe only a very small number of golden condors were built? and the olmecs had a flying machine and had genetic manipulation but still used primitive swords as weapons.
I'm not sure if they stated in the cartoon how many years ago these advanced civilizations were supposed to exist but I read an interesting article once about how long the traces of our modern world would last if we went extinct tomorrow. After a few hundred years modern bridges and skyscrapers would collapse. Most brick buildings would erode after a a couple of thousand and after several million years the only obvious evidence would be be *some* stone buildings, bars of gold in bank vaults, geostationary satellites and space probes.
It's possible, I mean in the original series it was as if the golden condor was a "one off", built at the same time as the seven cities of gold
After all, it auto piloted itself to all three? ruins (from memory).
But, in the second season......
The second city of gold has a golden condor factory, there's about 3-5 of them already built and more are being built, I assume because the children arrived.
I vaguely remember the imagery when one of the people is explaining Atlantis'/Heva's down fall, they had energy weapon aircraft, but their buildings were made of stone, like the ruins and they wore basic clothes, so it was as if technology wasn't part of their lives, only the defence/offence of their civilisations.