From: Billy Brown (bbrown@conemsco.com)
Date: Thu May 06 1999 - 08:24:52 MDT
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.
It might be usefull to point out here that we usually think in terms of
moving something a few thousand miles in a matter of days or weeks. The
ancients, OTOH, were usually moving things a few dozen miles over the course
of months or years. If you think like the ancients, those amazing feats
suddenly start seeming a lot more doable.
> 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.
BTW - Surely you realize that in the modern world we can align a building to
essentially infinite precision? (i.e. our instruments permit such high
precision that the thermal flexing of the building & ground will produce
much larger errors than an imprecision of our measurements)
> The vitrified forts in ireland?
Never heard of them. Do you have a link?
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@conemsco.com
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