Interesting site on ancient construction
Interesting site on ancient construction
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ornerynorsk (Industrial)
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http://w ww.ancient -wisdom.co .uk/constr uctiontech niques.htm
Interesting site, just wanted to pass it along.
Interesting site, just wanted to pass it along.
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Dik
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JMW
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I just had a mental picture of this ancient, sticking his mold box at the foot of a volcano, and cutting a gutter for lava down the mountainside.
B.E.
The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor
RE: Interesting site on ancient construction
That's a possible solution.
There are many skeptics however that believe that it is impossible that humans could have shaped and lifted a rock the weight of 2 semi's with their tools way back then.
Fe
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0
Multiply to the size of an army, and you get some idea of how some of these things might have been done. Not to belittle the amazing achievements of ancient civilizations, which are still a mystery- but not one I think we need to invoke space aliens to solve.
This brings to mind one of my favorite "demotivators"-
http://www.despair.com/achievement.html
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