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dan, thanks for making my point......while I wasn't sure of the total tonage that can be cut and moved many of you links showed that today, we can move large blocks.....while I didn't bother to open all links that you provided I appreciate your time......

The links prove that the technolgy we are told did the job could not have

Actually Wiz they prove exactly the opposite, check the very first link. They do it with WOOD. The only thing technology has really effected when it comes to moving rocks is the size of the system you need to move the stuff. With modern materials we have single pullies that can pick up 200 ton blocks. With older materials you'd need to setup a more complex pulley system that would spread the load over multiple pullies. We still use the same basic techniques, we've just replaced a whole lot of wood stone and rope with a steel pulley and some cabling. Any look at the history of pulies shows that the basic design has remained consistent for as far back as we have samples (which BTW includes pyramid era Egypt).

dan, thanks for making my point......

Are you a troll, or just monumentally dense?

No, I did not "make your point". I dismantled your point(s) entirely, showing how you did not have a single valid point, *and* that contrary to your claims, it *is* possible to move huge blocks of stone even with primitive technology (such as horses and wooden carts).

while I wasn't sure of the total tonage that can be cut and moved many of you links showed that today,

Oh, no you don't -- you can't weasel out of your original foolishness that easily. Your position was not that you "weren't sure" what size blocks can be cut and moved today, your position was that you WERE CERTAIN we couldn't handle 20-ton blocks even today. Here are your statements:

"I have personally watched today's machines try to cut and move 20 ton blocks and it just ain't do-able....."
"(we don't cut stones this big, when we need something like this we build it in place like a foundation)"
"And I mean no offense, but go to a construction site, or talk to a crane operator and find out first hand what their limitations are.....I can't quote exact tonnage, but it ain't 20...."
"and we still can't build it today....ask someone from Jersey in construction......he'll tell you....."

So... Are you now telling me that you *didn't* actually know what in the hell you were talking about, but you felt confident stating it as certain fact in your prior post? You admit you were lying? You admit you were just MAKING IT UP when you claimed to have "personally watched" modern machinery "try" and fail to "cut and move 20-ton blocks" and, you say, "it just ain't doable"?

How, on God's green Earth, do you see my exposure of your falsehoods as "making your point"?

we can move large blocks.....

FLIP-FLOP ALERT!

while I didn't bother to open all links that you provided I appreciate your time......

A closed mind gathers no thought.

The links prove that the technolgy we are told did the job could not have

*boggle*.

Actually, they prove beyond doubt that a) You were flat wrong in your prior claims about past and present capability, and b) primitive technology most certainly *can* (and has) moved blocks far larger than even 20-tons.

Deal with it. Any further attempt to cling to your untenable position (especially if you again try to assert that I "made your point", *snicker*) will just make you look like a loon of the first order.