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To: vannrox
A few months ago a wide-eyed Freeper tried to claim that we couldn't cut and move even 20-ton stone blocks even *today*.

So I went web-searching for rebuttal, and ran across *hundreds* of examples of routine quarrying of blocks in the 20-1000 ton range, *including* such examples as 50-ton granite blocks cut and moved large distances in the 1800's using nothing fancier than a wooden cart and a bunch of horses.

Subsitute a large team of slaves for the horses, and clearly the Egyptians were up to the same level of task, at the very least.

45 posted on 12/03/2002 1:07:39 AM PST by Dan Day
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To: Dan Day

I watched (live, on TV) some people move a 100-ton block of metal a short distance across Florida. The next day they shot it to the Moon.


71 posted on 08/10/2004 10:07:54 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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