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To: poconopundit

Ingenious. Leverage is our friend. Now let’s move on to the Nazca lines in Peru to ascertain how these were made; and why.

Given intelligent thought, man has even found a way to move water uphill giving no thought to Ben Franklin’s discovery.

Thanks, PP.


17 posted on 09/06/2017 3:31:37 AM PDT by V K Lee (DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
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To: V K Lee

Yep.

My favorite story is the guy who went to Easter Island, and told the villagers to move some of the stones for a few hundred bucks. They chopped some vines, wrapped them up, and dragged the half cut heads from the quarry to the desired site in less than a day.

You can do anything with leverage.


48 posted on 09/06/2017 5:48:06 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: V K Lee

“the Nazca lines in Peru”

I’ve never understood how ancient people did such large-scale designs so perfectly. Even the white chalk horses in Britain are hard to understand - the Uffington horse is stylistically so beautiful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse


74 posted on 10/24/2017 7:20:44 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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