From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu May 06 1999 - 05:01:35 MDT
Dwayne <dwayne@pobox.com> writes:
> 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.
A quick look at the some websites mentions a 1000 ton carved stone in
the quarry, and the Trilithon of three 800 ton stones. This is
definitely in the range of modern technology (the "turtle" they move
the space shuttle on can carry much more).
BTW, what would the vested interests of the engineers have been? A way
of avoiding having to move the stones?
Maybe the claim is simply a misunderstanding: the engineer was
referring to a disbelief in how the ancients could have done it, and
then it was repeated too much to become a claim about current
inability. It fits into the "lost golden age"-meme receptors fairly
well.
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