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Re:Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old by tgflynn on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:38AM (#22325760)
I don't know if that would be so unimaginable. The pyramid of Giza is taller than many skyscrapers.
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Re:Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old by nkrisc on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:36AM (#22326024)
This is true. What is most impressive about skyscrapers is not how tall they are, but how thin they are.
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Re:Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old by chinesempire on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:18AM (#22326211)
It would be unimaginable in Japan 14 centuries ago.

The first western style skyscraper was built in 1890 and demolished in 1923.

But Japan had pyramids long before that, there are speculations that the underwater pyramids of Yonaguni could be the remains of a civilization 5 thousands years old

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Re:Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old by krapp on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:25AM (#22326272)
>there are speculations that the underwater pyramids of Yonaguni could be the remains of a civilization 5 thousands years old

As far as I'm aware, the all but universal consensus among archaeologists and scholars (and the Japanese government) is that the "underwater pyramids" of Yonaguni are entirely natural.

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Re:Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old by chinesempire on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:06AM (#22327137)
Just to clarify, I don't believe in pseudo archeology and I've reported the idea of an ancient civilization as speculations.

I was simply pointing out that megalithic structures have been part of ancient Japan either they were natural or not, skyscrapers definitely not.

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