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So, did you notice where I addressed that in my post?
quote:The video shows him demonstrating on a concrete pad, undoubtedly because it's easier and more dramatic, and lets him use a smaller fulcrum, but when it shows him moving a barn with the same technique it's over grass.
Just because he's doing it on a hard surface doesn't mean it only works on a hard surface. He didn't move the barn over a hard surface, it's clearly moving over a field. On the 2nd link, which is his website, it specifies it's a muddy field so he had to go pretty slowly. If he'd done it when the ground was frozen, he would have been able to go faster.
(Also, you probably shouldn't call people with gender neutral names "brother." Just sayin'. )
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my bro eljay, my dude, my man, my masculine entity, my male, my stamen-bearing androecium flora structured dude friend guy, how's it hanging brother with a robust sexual dimorphism, how's your dude man things that you are doing *high fives repeatedly* yo we were thinking of doing a bunch of dude stuff like wrestling and math you wanna come *does a kickflip out of the thread*
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It would also work on non-frozen ground with a rock the size of a softball instead of the 1" one he was using. With a couple the size of basketballs, you could move the monolith stones over rough terrain. Just think of how much more teetery a book would be balanced on a tennis ball vs a superball. It's the same principle, you just have to scale up.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: Stone_wolf, i want you to make two complete lists for us so that we're not just chasing down your "some people say" or "nobody can REALLY prove" shit.
The first list should be "things Stone Wolf believe is true about the ancient structures that modern science/archaeology deny"
The second list should be "things Stone Wolf thinks that are false about the current archaeological record of the ancient structures"
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Stone_Wolf_, I think you might have a sort of intuitive approach to understanding the world. You're a Big Picture guy, right? And you want people to watch the movie because -- I think -- you found it overall to be convincing in feel, and you think others will, too?
I think a lot of the people in this discussion aren't just Big Picture thinkers. I think several of us are both detail-oriented and the kind of people who find it difficult to overlook inconsistencies or errors of fact for the Big Picture view. In fact, I suspect many of us react to errors in the details with suspicion about the overall reliability of the Big Picture claims.
You "are not that organized" and so (I think) you don't necessarily approach evaluation in a step-by-step, methodical way. That's not something you have to change. It might be, however, that discussion about whether something is convincing won't work between you and people who are that organized and methodical when they are engaged in evaluation.
For me, I can't get past hand-wavey bits (or errors of omission or commission) to see the Big Picture -- it's all built up from the details. So when you ask me to watch the tape, all I can think as I'm watching is, "but what about . . .? and haven't you . . .?
I think this is a recipe for frustration. I really do. That doesn't mean the conversation wasn't started in good faith, and I think it can be ended in good faith if anyone chooses, too.
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I had intended to answer all questions, but I really never intended my suspicions to be publicly aired...safe to say I have some out there beliefs and chalk it up to my well rounded charm...heh.
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so what do we do to convince you that you shouldn't trust things like the Pyramid Code because they fail very basic tests of credibility and promote entirely false views at the expense of real scientific and anthropological knowledge
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It isn't that copper tools straight up WON'T cut these hard stones...it's that the stones in question have flat plains on inside cuts, with zero chisel marks. Basically, one does not achieve the result one finds @ Puma Punku w/o powered tools.
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Believe it or not, power tools would leave marks too. It's polishing/sanding that gets rid of marks, whether they were made by hand tools or power tools.
And while sanding can be sped up with power tools, it can still be done with lots of elbow grease and patience. Especially on something like sandstone.
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quote: AA: “This surface is as smooth as a table top, like in your kitchen. There’s no wave to it. This was machined.”
The sandstone and andesite stones at Pumapunku would have been easily worked with the most basic stone working tools, the idea that diamond tipped power saws were needed is ridiculous. The red sandstone was relatively soft and easy to work with, and even though andesite is pretty hard, because of the way it cooled it could be easily flaked off using stones as soft as 5.5 on the Mohs scale. Such pounding stones were found all over andesite quarries in the area.
Contrary to Ancient Aliens’ claims that archeologists are baffled by Pumapunku, Archeologists know the basics about how Pumapunku’s stones were cut and shaped. This is partly because there is evidence for this all over the site itself.
They actually used a method that almost all ancient stone workers used. They used hard -pounding stones to pound out troth like depressions; later on they used flat stones and sand to grind the stone to make a polished surface. We will see later on that this is also how the Egyptians, 1000’s of years before this, made their flat surfaced granite monuments like obelisks.
Sand, as we will see later when we look at Egypt, has extremely hard particles in it and, if placed between a flat surface and a rock, can polish even the hardest stones known to man. In fact, the harder the stone is the better it can be polished using sand.
We will also see that how sand can turn a piece of copper into a very efficient granite saw or granite drill – a method which the Egyptians utilized quite well.
Some stones at Pumapunku that Ancient Aliens would never show the cameras are the ones that were in the middle of this process. They show that at the same time a stone was being pounded by stone hammers, which created these troth like depressions, the grinding and polishing was taking place on the other end of the stone. Unfinished stones like this one clearly show how they were shaped – and it wasn’t with lasers.
There is also unmistakable evidence of stone hammers having been used in the places that were never meant to be visible, like where certain stones would be connected with one another. And because of that, it’s hard for me to believe Eric Von Daniken’s next claim, because it would mean that the alien tool box had a laser gun right next to a stone hammer.