The plant that softens stone.

That's pure b.s.

They worked those stones.

If they were like plasma, they wouldn't have tool marks and those inexplicable"knob" protrusions.

Kind of an aside here, are they sure baalbek "stone of the pregnant woman" and the bigger one beside it is uncompleted?

Are they sure they're not part of a buried bigger structure or even a lid of some kind?

Did they use ground penetrating radar or lidar to investigate?

originally posted by: letni
Intriguing! Sounds alot like Phyllanthus niruri (Chanca piedra)

which Tainos, Arawaks, Seminoles etc of Plato's Atlantis (the Caribbean & Keys) traditionally use to help pass kidney stones.. ouch!

reminds me.. there was a movie about time travel where people fall down into a pit and get stuck in time.. incidentally therewithin is also the elusive 'fountain' of youth (which realistically, would be not literally a fountain, but rather, the natives' watering hole full of aloe vera gel).

in the end of the movie i think so much time has passed above the pit, that earth is pretty much finished and ETs visit!

anyone know that movie's name?

Timetrap?

originally posted by: tulsi

originally posted by: letni
Intriguing! Sounds alot like Phyllanthus niruri (Chanca piedra)

which Tainos, Arawaks, Seminoles etc of Plato's Atlantis (the Caribbean & Keys) traditionally use to help pass kidney stones.. ouch!

reminds me.. there was a movie about time travel where people fall down into a pit and get stuck in time.. incidentally therewithin is also the elusive 'fountain' of youth (which realistically, would be not literally a fountain, but rather, the natives' watering hole full of aloe vera gel).

in the end of the movie i think so much time has passed above the pit, that earth is pretty much finished and ETs visit!

anyone know that movie's name?

Timetrap?

Yep it was Time trap 2017, www.imdb.com...

It sounds crazy but the missing ingredient was in fact................... Bat#



No really. The jotcha plant was used to soften the stone, possibly combined with maize vinegar and other plants but until recently noone knew how it was hardened again. The answer is guano: en.wikipedia.org...

Here's a video from the geopolymer institute:
www.youtube.com...

And here's a scientific paper:
for all the boring people who don't really belong on ATS

Actually this is about the pre Incan site at Pumapunku but it's pretty obvious similar technology would have been carried on.

originally posted by: numberjuggler
It sounds crazy but the missing ingredient was in fact................... Bat#



No really. The jotcha plant was used to soften the stone, possibly combined with maize vinegar and other plants but until recently noone knew how it was hardened again. The answer is guano: en.wikipedia.org...

Here's a video from the geopolymer institute:
www.youtube.com...

And here's a scientific paper:
for all the boring people who don't really belong on ATS

Actually this is about the pre Incan site at Pumapunku but it's pretty obvious similar technology would have been carried on.

Yes this has been discussed here before. Unfortunately there no evidence that they did that and a great deal that they just used good old manual masonry.

Besides using quarries that show they cut out blocks and abandoned a few of those along the way. They also left some block unfinished and oddly many of the blocks while close in appearance are not exact copies which would have meant they made different molds for them - highly inefficient.





Above is good Figure 23. This is a block from PP that was never finished and it shows three types of unfinished masonry work on the stone, bashing, pecking and smoothing done by abrasives.

www.researchgate.net...

www.academia.edu...

originally posted by: numberjuggler
It sounds crazy but the missing ingredient was in fact................... Bat#



No really. The jotcha plant was used to soften the stone, possibly combined with maize vinegar and other plants but until recently noone knew how it was hardened again. The answer is guano: en.wikipedia.org...

Here's a video from the geopolymer institute:
www.youtube.com...

And here's a scientific paper:
for all the boring people who don't really belong on ATS

Actually this is about the pre Incan site at Pumapunku but it's pretty obvious similar technology would have been carried on.

The quarries from which the stone slabs at Puma Punku and other South American megalithic sites were cut have been identified from their minerological composition. Many of the large, heavy slabs are NOT sandstone, as required by the polymer theory, but granite, deorite and andesite. Why would the megalithic builders use polymers when they obviously had the technology going beyond copper and bronze chisels & saws that could cut and carve very hard andesite?! The geopolymer theory has not got a leg to stand on. Davidovits's results have never been replicated by other research labs and no South American anthropologists take his claims seriously.
And your Wikipedia link to guano is totally useless because nowhere does it support your unsubstantiated claim that guano can harden stone that has been softened with the juice of some mythical plant.