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Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by Gawdzilla
Oh I hear you. I don't agree is all.
They are much too large to simply move back and forth, again that works great for the smaller ones but not the largest ones.
Take a look at this one here for example. See where the lady is standing with the child? Notice the stone edge she is facing. Tell me how they moved a stone that huge back and forth to "Rub" it into place.
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
reply to post by Gawdzilla
This would be my theory a well, they would have a far sturdier design.
Just think of building a garden wall for your home, if you uses staggering rectangle blocks without using any form of morter, then backfill with dirt, eventually the blocks will be pushed outward. Now if you repaet the same experiment in the way the Inca's built their walls, your wall would be much sturdier, you may still see pushing outward if not done correctly, but it would be nowhere as pronounced as the rectangle blocks.
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
reply to post by Gawdzilla
This would be my theory a well, they would have a far sturdier design.
Just think of building a garden wall for your home, if you uses staggering rectangle blocks without using any form of morter, then backfill with dirt, eventually the blocks will be pushed outward. Now if you repaet the same experiment in the way the Inca's built their walls, your wall would be much sturdier, you may still see pushing outward if not done correctly, but it would be nowhere as pronounced as the rectangle blocks.
With no "long lines" the shear force would not develop very well. (The "Domino effect" in non-geek speak.)