July 21, 2005

The Forgotten Technology Could this be how the Pyramids were built? Perhaps the key to Coral Castle? A fun read, either way.
posted by petebest 19 years ago
  • Here is a video of this man's techniques. Video available as streaming WMV only, unfortunately. However it looks quite impressive to see how he singlehandedly erects a huge pillar made of concrete. SFW.
  • We want a pyramid!
  • Fascinating. Too bad a lot of the images on his website fail to load. The pitch for the video was a bit annoying. Nonetheless, this is really cool to see. Thanks for posting! And thanks mare for the link to the video. Stonehenge Re-loaded! Awful!! *throws stone underneath MoFi* *spins it around!*
  • Wow!! That is very cool!! )))
  • Wow is right. I can't believe that we haven't been able to reverse engineer this solution for so long. The intelligence and adaptability of our ancestors continues to amaze me.
  • In my dream, as I sank, I saw you swimming towards me. I had no idea you could swim so gracefully, like terrible mermaids, or fagotty sharks. Your time under the thick ice had left your scales pale and your fins as boney as your claws were calloused, from clawing things. When you bit me, and as I floated helpless, and as my blood drifted from me in desperate clouds, I began to understand you. When you bit me even more cruelly as I grasped childishly at your locked jaws, I grasped the knowledge of the terrible Codex. When I saw your gills fan out in ecstasy, I in ecstasy felt my gills grow to fill the void that my lungs, in their uselessness, had left. Twenty short minutes later, as my human form drifted downwards, something greater soared upwards, murmuring "Thank you...thank you".
  • Yes, it would make a lot more sense if the pictures worked. However, it makes a lot more sense than the idea that the pyramids were built using kites. I saw them try to raise an obolisk with a kite on Discovery channel and they had to use pulleys and super strong rope, neither of which we have evidence the egypians had. The silliest thing aobut it was, if they had pulleys, then they could have just used man-power to do it and not bothered with the silly kites...
  • In my dream, as I sank, I saw you swimming towards me... Sounds like someone read too much of the human-dolphin fornication thread on MeFi that was linked in the horse-fuck thread of yesterday?
  • Wow. Mucho bananas for this revelation, petebest! )))!
  • "WAY COOL" *scurries to email the link to lottas friends Thanks, pete!
  • Well, now we know at least one of the 50 ways to love your lever.
  • /collapse
  • okay but who's to say that it wasn't the aliens that *taught* them how to use this?! A ha!
  • I don't see how he can stack one horizontally across two vertical ones. I also don't see how he could put the pillars into precise astronomical placement.
  • One way to put a cross-beam on two uprights, Stonehenge style, would go like this. Imagine the two uprights have between them two fulcrums just a little higher than the uprights. Out to the side is another pair of fulcrums, a bit lower, than another, forming a sort of stairway. By raising one end of the beam and rotating it, he can walk the beam gradually up the 'stairs': when it's on the highest fulcrums, he just has to pull them out and it drops on the uprights. You could obviously do it with just two fulcrums if you had a way of gradually making them higher. I don't see why precise alignment is a particular problem, if you're careful.