Dwayne wrote:
> The lower courses of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbeck are, according to
the
> quotes I have seen, too massive to be moved using currently available
> technology. Now, these may be quotes from engineers who have vested
> interests, or they might be correct.
There is no particular limit to how big an object can be moved with current technology. Once you get bigger than a few hundred tons you'll want to build custom equipment for the job, but that's mostly a matter of convenience - its more efficient than setting up large teams of comercial bulldozers & such. You can scale up to tens of thousands of tons before things even start to get tricky, which is far larger than anything that the ancients ever moved.
> I have also seen footage of engineers saying that it is technically
> impossible to align a site as large as the Great Pyramid at Giza with
> the accuracy the pyramid displays. There's more to it than just moving
> rocks about.
Again, we're pretty sure we know how they did it. You just need a good knowledge of naked-eye astronomy, and lots of patience and attention to detail.
> The vitrified forts in ireland?
Never heard of them. Do you have a link?
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
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