If We Built it, Today

Could we build it today.....
Yes

Would we use the same construction methods and lack of safety concerns and building regulations no.

Could we build it today? Of course we could. I'm more interested in how they built it back then without all the modern tools and equipment.

25T is small these days for cranes. Just Looking at one company, their all terrain cranes start at 50T and go up to 450T.
www.manitowoccranes.com/en/cranes/grove/grove-products/all-terrain

Here's one with a 2,300T capacity and a 360Ft boom reach. That will pick up the entire Stone Henge and a big chuck of a pyramid all in one go.
www.manitowoccranes.com/en/cranes/manitowoc/crawler-cranes/lattice-boom-crawlers/31000

the Brooklyn Bridge:
okay, so this is a "what would we do if we were doing something similar to this."
the brooklyn bridge was built to accommodate six times the anticipated traffic load for the time it was built - so their theme was they were going to make two automotive traffic only bridges with the same total capacity as the BB, and then turn the vehicle lanes of the brooklyn bridge into greenspace. again, heavy on speculation and tangents, and light on construction.

So they've never seen a sports stadium before or they assume the audience hasn't?

The oldest boats date to the neolithic period some 8000 BC. The oldest known sea going craft from 7000 BC.

The story of Noah's ark is likely to come from earlier Mesopotamian flood stories dating to around 2000 BC.

The first large wooden boats known were the 'Uru' boats, which are still being made in parts of the world, which were used to trade between India and Mesopotamia. Dating their original appearance to around 3000 BC.

So yes, anyone living circa 2000 BC in that part of the world would most likely be aware of what a boat was if they lived anywhere near the sea or a major river.



The oldest known example of Homo Sapiens is some 315,000 years ago, or 311,000 years before the rough period from which the story comes. There is evidence that the human population fell to around 15,000 individuals around 75,000 years ago...which is still some 71,000 years or 2,367 generations before the time of the story.

Humans have ALWAYS been omnivores and thus eaten meat. Heck, Chimps will happily hunt down and kill smaller monkeys for meat today.
Pigs were first domesticated around 13,000 BC, so around 9,000 years before the story, and since pigs are bread purely for meat that means humans were eating pork at least that long, and presumably far longer for them to have decided to domesticate them in the first place.

Yummmmm Bacon.

Pigs have large litters compared to other domesticated animals like cows and sheep, their population grows quickly.

If that is the case then it becomes something untestable since you either have to consider it pure fantasy (magic basically) or 100% true and therefore confirmed as possible.

In order to test this in any form you have to look at it from a science and historical view; The most likely period the events took place in, the technology of that period and so forth.

Clearly the showrunners involved are not approaching the show that way nor from the sound of it focusing on the core historical and scientific aspects of the 'ideas'. That makes it far less interesting to those who would be most interested in such a premise.

What I remember from my anthropology classes in college is that humans started eating meat around 150,000 years ago. This extra protein in their diet is what enabled the development of larger and more complex brain structures that we have today. Humans have been omnivores ever since.