Tuesday, 23 April 2019

Researchers Made 3,900-Pound Boulders They Can Move by Hand, Giving More Insights Into Ancient Engineering

quote [ Researchers at MIT have given more credence to theories that ancient engineers were masters of balance and leverage with a new experiment that produced giant concrete structures, some 3,900+ pounds in weight, that can be still be maneuvered by hand. ]

Hold my 25 ton building block, willya?
[SFW] [science & technology] [+6 Original]
[by Paracetamol@11:35amGMT]

Comments

spazm said @ 2:03pm GMT on 23rd Apr [Score:2 Funny]
This is how Tetris was invented.
cb361 said @ 2:55pm GMT on 23rd Apr
Must be why they couldn’t stop rebuilding stone henge for thousands of years.
Paracetamol said @ 4:29am GMT on 24th Apr
mechanical contrivance said @ 1:32pm GMT on 23rd Apr [Score:1 Informative]
These things are made of two different kinds of concrete with different densities. Stonehenge and the Moai statues are made of stone, which has the same density throughout. Plus, the blocks and statues the ancients used didn't have these weird shapes.
lilmookieesquire said @ 11:29pm GMT on 23rd Apr
Silent said @ 1:53pm GMT on 23rd Apr
So you're saying this "Researchers" are aliens?
Got ya.
cb361 said @ 2:58pm GMT on 23rd Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
Don’t be silly. Researchers are just secret operatives working for the deep state’s new world order. The cartographers are the aliens, using their position to hide evidence of the cylindrical earth.
Silent said @ 9:33am GMT on 24th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]
Cylindrical? Oh you fell for the oldest trick in the book.
The earth is actually a mobius strip, and they use the bright light of the "sun" to keep you from looking up at the sky too much and seeing the truth!
C18H27NO3 said @ 6:02pm GMT on 23rd Apr
I think the stairs are over designed.
moriati said @ 8:40pm GMT on 23rd Apr
I wonder if they would gather Moss?
mechanical contrivance said @ 8:45pm GMT on 23rd Apr
I bet Bill Wyman gathers moss.
captainstubing said @ 10:34am GMT on 24th Apr
Well, peach fuzz at least.

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