Sakura
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What are these 1750 granite blocks cut with copper tools?My original post:
V4skunk said:
You are thinking completely backwards.
How were the ancients perfectly cutting granite rock with copper hand tools and then moving stones up to 1750 tonne?
You are the one changing the goal posts comrade.
The simple fact is that we are not cutting 1750 tonne granite blocks, granite is the 2nd hardest natural substance known to man.
You also prove my point with the link that i posted! Go look again at the size of the heavy lifters, you need to try harder to be honest. Also a laser is not going to cut a 1000+tonne block, more like a thin sheet of metal a few cm thick at best.
We are also not replicating the walls at Sacsayhuaman any time soon.
You talk of Sacsayhuaman, but as far as I am aware, it doesn't use granite, the largest blocks are 200~tonnes, and the rocks were mostly pounded into shape before being cut.
Using ramps, ropes, etc (which there is evidence of), it is not hard to imagine how a large group of people could move a large rock.
While it is impressive how megalithic structures were built, there is nothing that cannot be built by today's technology, and even using the same tools they would've had, we can come up with ways to build the same things.