Thanks BenLurkin.
Posted on 04/24/2019 6:49:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Matter Design (which was co-founded by Brandon Clifford, who’s also an assistant professor at MIT) worked with CEMEX, a company that specializes in building materials, to design a series of over-sized concrete monoliths that could be assembled like giant building blocks into a larger, functional structure. But despite weighing many tons a piece and being durable enough to survive hundreds of years, the concrete blocks feature unique makeups and shapes that make them relatively easy to move, even by just a single person.
There’s a couple of different design approaches at work here. The blocks, which are also known as massive masonry units—or MMUs, for short—are made from concrete with varying densities to allow precise control over where the object’s center of gravity ends up, adding stability and balance. And while each giant block looks like a random blob, they’re engineered with strategically placed bevels, rounded edges, pivot points, handles, and interlocking features. The resulting structures are still far too heavy for a human to lift, but they can be rocked, pivoted, tilted, walked, and even rolled from one location to another, with remarkable ease and precision.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Maybe I should have searched...?
interesting
We had to move some pieces of tombstones....HEAVY!! We slid them on a Teflon Cookie sheet...put a rope through the little hole...and easily slid the stones to where we wanted them.
I believe the guy who built the Coral Castle in Fla use a lot of the same ideas in 1923. He did this without the aid of computers for calculations.
Looks like a post for the Gods, Glyphs, and something-else ping list I see floating around these parts.
OK, great, so some yard birds designed perfectly balanced and shaped heavy objects that can be rocked back and forth by a couple of snowflakes and be designed to interlock to form a larger structure.
Now show me exactly how Stonehenge, the pyramids and other humongous structures that never used perfectly balanced perfectly shaped objects were built?
Or, tell me how the modern designed junk described in the article would have been moved by ancient man from the quarry over sand, dirt, and mud to the construction sight.
Or is there a modern practical purpose to all of this, so when the left’s New Green Deal is enacted we can build stupid buildings with this crap without cranes, payloaders and other heavy equipment?
Or did someone get a huge tax payer funded grant to create more junk science?
NOT IMPRESSED!
That would require an AGW connection. Perhaps after a dig into the details, one would turn up.
They remain trapped in a never ending quest, trying to apply human abilities to other worldly constructors.
I’ve been to the coral castle and some of those stones are amazing
This is the lasted trend on how Stonehenge and Easter Island statues were constructed. A rounded bottom helps with center of gravity and movability. The Easter Island statues have a rounded bottom so, like Weebles, they can be moved easily by wobbling them along. Same with the Stonehenge pillars. Standing the pillars upright, it’s thought they were in part wobbled upright.
Here you go. Moving Easter Island statues by wobbling them along on rounded bottoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNuh-J5IgE
clickbait. they can’t move them by hand, only rock them back and forth a tiny bit ...
LEGOS is repotedly interested in a giant “castle” joint venture.
Thanks BenLurkin.
When re-erecting what was left of a megalithic structure in England, the crushed remains of an Englishman of hundreds of years ago was found. Apparently the death occurred during activities that treated the site like a quarry. :^) Dating the remains was accomplished by coins in his purse.
Looks like a post for the Gods, Glyphs, and something-else ping list I see floating around these parts.
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Gods, Graves and Glyphs.
SunkenCiv runs that. You might ping him and get put on the list. Lots of fun reads.
How long does it take to move 3,900 1-lb rocks?
https://www.livescience.com/41075-coral-castle.html
“Leedskalnin also opined that the unemployed and powerless should not have voting rights: “It is not sound to allow the weaklings to vote. Any one who is too weak to make his own living is not strong enough to vote, because their weak influence weakens the state....” He was clearly a man of strong will and convictions who prized self-sufficiency and a rigid work ethic.”
Modern Ancient Aliens theorists state of their critics “They remain trapped in a never ending quest, trying to apply human abilities to other worldly constructors.”
What if that were true?
supply “H”(history channel watermark) in the right lower corner and bring out old George with the wild hair and we’d have a great episode!
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