Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by spacevisitor
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
How about a really radical theory...not runners, but rollers.
Just shy of magic, I know...way out there...![]()
Looks a bit difficult to me, because when you pull let say a 25 ton block as in PhotonEffect's case here, with a group of people uphill an 7 or 8 percent slope on rollers, you can’t have one second of rest to recuperate a bit, because when you stop the pulling it would rolled back again.
Or you must have a way to block that.
That would be even more difficult for the 60 or 80 tons blocks.
They are using sledges in the photo, not rollers.
If I am not mistaken I see two rollers on the picture below.
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
It doesn't take a 25 ton block to wedge a roller from backsliding. Ropes and pulleys could put scores of men doing the donkeywork...or hundreds?
If I am right, they had no pulleys then.
"The logistics of construction at the Giza site are staggering when you think that the ancient Egyptians had no pulleys, no wheels, and no iron tools.
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[edit on 29/10/09 by spacevisitor]


