This particular stone is in Lebanon....approximately 1300 tons........or, 2.6 million lbs.
The biggest mobile cranes in the world can't come close to this.....ropes? An exercise in just how far will they stretch before snapping.
Like the other guy asks....what am I talking about....have no freaking idea.....levitation might fit Occam's Razor.
A simple machine for which we have lost the concept?
Personally, I blame Doctor Who.
Oh, come on!
You just keep digging sand and piling it under rear end, so that it’s always sliding downhill under its own weight, until you get it where it’s going.
Getting it uphill is a bit trickier....
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