Same thing with the sacking of Baghdad. Prior to the Hunns sacking it and salting their fields it was THE center of learning in the world. They used to actively collect copies of every book they came across in the world. Had scholars whose sole job was copying and collecting knowledge. They were centuries beyond the rest of the world in certain things. They even used to perform cataract surgery.

My next question is "what are 5 minute crafts?" but I can guess that that's crafts that are supposed to be done in 5 minutes.

Was just thinking that.

The actual procedure is the drag a sheet of paper with glue on the top side behind you as you walk back and forth across the area. But if you can perform Holy magic you can skip this step.

Didn't they have a complete embargo on manufacturing equipment to the South. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that, that was why the South tried to secede. Only around 2% of the population actually had slaves, the really wealthy, and even then they knew it would be far cheaper to have machines doing the work.

A round trip would take about 21 months. It would take a minimum of 18 months for a resupply to show back up assuming that refuel and reload were ready for the ship upon return. But that's assuming we use a ship to carry it. It actually wouldn't be that hard to have 4 years worth of supplies on the first trip. Much of it can actually be sent ahead to be retrieved once they get there. They just send it like they did the probes. A controlled hard entry to make sure it's intact and viola, supplies are there waiting. Water would be the hardest supply to take but it's possible with current tech. However, no one has actually tried to live in an environment like Mars. It's almost certain that things will go wrong and probably at the worst moment. Space is not kind and will kill you at the slightest problem and Mars with it's much reduced atmosphere is not any better.

It's actually an interesting thought. Living humans can acclimate to almost any pressure if they do it slowly. Of course you need a working circulatory system for it to work. Vampires don't have that so they would be limited to the first couple hundred feet. Then there's all the things in the sea that eat dead flesh which is just about everything.

Even though almost everything he ever espoused was debunked and proven wrong he did help legitimize mental therapy which has helped alot of people. But yeah he was weird.