And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, October 17, 2022
One of the Easter Island Moai statues that was carved but never erected. it would have stood 72ft tall (the tallest standing is 33ft high) and weighed more than 2 Boeing 737's. This also shows how the figures were carved.
Shows an amazing understanding of mechanics and advanced geometry. Cutting them on an angle makes it 100 times more difficult to get the lines correct as there is no plumb or right angle from plumb to work from. Unless of course one is working from a craft hovering above and using a computer assisted laser or water jet cutter. If only the alien visitors had left their precision measuring equipment behind......
AFAIK, we don't know that any besides this one were carved this way. Since dating these stone artifacts is difficult, this one could have been a first attempt after which the builders might have reconsidered the size and decided to just go smaller and see how that worked out.
Gotta wonder how bored the Easter Islanders were to make such an obsession of carving and transporting those things.
ReplyDeleteShows an amazing understanding of mechanics and advanced geometry. Cutting them on an angle makes it 100 times more difficult to get the lines correct as there is no plumb or right angle from plumb to work from. Unless of course one is working from a craft hovering above and using a computer assisted laser or water jet cutter. If only the alien visitors had left their precision measuring equipment behind......
ReplyDeleteGet this man a cigar.
DeleteAFAIK, we don't know that any besides this one were carved this way. Since dating these stone artifacts is difficult, this one could have been a first attempt after which the builders might have reconsidered the size and decided to just go smaller and see how that worked out.
ReplyDeleteobelisks in egypt the same.
ReplyDeleteIf your erection takes more than 600 years, you should contact your doctor.
ReplyDeleteYou WIN!!
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There were giants in the Earth in those days.
ReplyDeletewaiting for the Gods to return.
ReplyDeleteThe movers took one look and said "oh hell no!"
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