I don’t see any reason to believe they weren’t just regular sized people. Humanity is pretty capable when we put our mind to things.
Naked_Fish69 on
Honest question but how did he shape the stones ?
SiteLine71 on
Nice CNC shop though
CosmicEggEarth on
A better question is – why?
Cuzco looks similar to overmolding, in-situ. As later addition shows, the ancients were practical, they didn’t have any reason to imitate pillow shapes or achieve sub-mm complex curvature fits – those features however happen naturally in casting
Neko_Laws on
Is the bricklayer taller than the house he’s building? Is the car designer faster than the vehicle?
540cry on
Incredibly lucky how he was able to find so many rocks that fit together perfectly
ResolutionOwn4933 on
ObamaLovesKetamine on
Never underestimate what humanity can achieve with enough time, skill, and labor.
A lot of people like to claim major sites with large, precise stonework couldn’t be done by ancient man, but stone masonry was something ancient man had down to a fine art. We were cutting and building with stone for thousands of years before we even started working with metals. A lot of those skills were lost to time, but it’s silly to just assume it was aliens, or giants, or whatever.
Inner_Map3518 on
probably around our size, maybe bigger/maller. but structured differently, way differently. esp the mind., structured from birth differently. society made gods, not npcs
Ryu6364 on
We have 7 foot people everywhere we only see the ones who play basketball lol way more exist there is a kid who plays for Florida who is 7 ft 9 and not done growing the answer here is giants
Both-Employment-5113 on
im sure they were exactly the height they were and was needed
Dick_Cabesa on
Don’t forget that guy in Fla that created Coral Castle.
He was featured on that old show “unsolved mysteries” cuz nobody e could figure out how 1 man was able to move 30 ton rock w/o machinery.
Turns out they knew all along. They had pics of him using simple levers made out of trees.
I do not believe it was done this way, this would be the most difficult way to construct this. I do believe they used a geopolymer to make the bricks not all of them but many large ones.
arakaman on
This is a great to exemplify how impressive some of these places are. Hes using fairly advanced tech to both shape and place these things that weigh like 100 lbs probably. It would be an incredible task to cut these to fit by hand… scaled up to massive sizes… and then to place them similarly to this only by hand when if you had any flaws, fixing them would be about impossible to pull them back off and make any additional corrections. The fact theyre not riddled with gaps from any imperfections basically eliminates the idea of human beings just eyeballing cuts perfectly and consistently worldwide without even having contact. Really common sense should have eliminated that narrative just by looking at it but this helps give a visual if you understand whats going into the creation
Silent_Shaman on
Still aren’t fit together as precisely as the ones in cusco, you can’t even fit a hair between the stones
Forgotten_mob on
Cute. All that isn’t as large as one block of the giza pyramids and not as cleanly cut either. Add on the distance to haul the stone from a mountain range miles away too of course.
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The same size as that guy or even smaller.
I don’t see any reason to believe they weren’t just regular sized people. Humanity is pretty capable when we put our mind to things.
Honest question but how did he shape the stones ?
Nice CNC shop though
A better question is – why?
Cuzco looks similar to overmolding, in-situ. As later addition shows, the ancients were practical, they didn’t have any reason to imitate pillow shapes or achieve sub-mm complex curvature fits – those features however happen naturally in casting
Is the bricklayer taller than the house he’s building? Is the car designer faster than the vehicle?
Incredibly lucky how he was able to find so many rocks that fit together perfectly
Never underestimate what humanity can achieve with enough time, skill, and labor.
A lot of people like to claim major sites with large, precise stonework couldn’t be done by ancient man, but stone masonry was something ancient man had down to a fine art. We were cutting and building with stone for thousands of years before we even started working with metals. A lot of those skills were lost to time, but it’s silly to just assume it was aliens, or giants, or whatever.
probably around our size, maybe bigger/maller. but structured differently, way differently. esp the mind., structured from birth differently. society made gods, not npcs
We have 7 foot people everywhere we only see the ones who play basketball lol way more exist there is a kid who plays for Florida who is 7 ft 9 and not done growing the answer here is giants
im sure they were exactly the height they were and was needed
Don’t forget that guy in Fla that created Coral Castle.
He was featured on that old show “unsolved mysteries” cuz nobody e could figure out how 1 man was able to move 30 ton rock w/o machinery.
Turns out they knew all along. They had pics of him using simple levers made out of trees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle
I do not believe it was done this way, this would be the most difficult way to construct this. I do believe they used a geopolymer to make the bricks not all of them but many large ones.
This is a great to exemplify how impressive some of these places are. Hes using fairly advanced tech to both shape and place these things that weigh like 100 lbs probably. It would be an incredible task to cut these to fit by hand… scaled up to massive sizes… and then to place them similarly to this only by hand when if you had any flaws, fixing them would be about impossible to pull them back off and make any additional corrections. The fact theyre not riddled with gaps from any imperfections basically eliminates the idea of human beings just eyeballing cuts perfectly and consistently worldwide without even having contact. Really common sense should have eliminated that narrative just by looking at it but this helps give a visual if you understand whats going into the creation
Still aren’t fit together as precisely as the ones in cusco, you can’t even fit a hair between the stones
Cute. All that isn’t as large as one block of the giza pyramids and not as cleanly cut either. Add on the distance to haul the stone from a mountain range miles away too of course.
OK, move to multiple tons each stone