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The Theory Of The Humongous Stones Thread (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=229568)

The really awful news stemming from all of this is that David killed Goliath - otherwise, we'd all be about 16' tall and not quite as amazed by all these feats of strength in ancient times. Way to go, David! Jerk!

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Originally Posted by Bill Lundberg (Post 6824718)

LMAO.... good call...

If one fella can move giant blocks like this around his back yard... imagine what 10,000 workers could accomplish...

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Originally Posted by KC Fish (Post 6824717)

oops

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Originally Posted by rockymtnchief (Post 6824661)

http://www.amazingabilities.com/amaze10a.html

Amazing.

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Perhaps the most spectacular of Ed's carvings is a huge nine-ton stone door through which he drilled an eight-foot longitudinal hole that was precisely aligned with the stone’s center of gravity. Edward fitted the hole with a shaft resting on an automobile gear, and then installed the door. The door fits within a quarter of an inch of the walls on either side. The door is so perfectly balanced that it may be easily pushed open by a five-year old child using one finger. Today's engineers, using advanced laser and computer technology, would be hard pressed to duplicate this phenomenal engineering feat.

A local contractor was hired to cut a stone from Ed's quarry. Using a diamond tipped power saw and a 600 horsepower crane the contractor had difficulty removing a smaller sized stone. Also, the contractor could not extract the stone by cutting horizontally across the bottom of the stone, but had to break it away to extract it. Edward Leedskalnin cut his huge stones to create the four vertical sides, and then he also cut horizontally across the bottoms to extract the stones.

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Originally Posted by KC Fish (Post 6824729)

Amazing.

What is really amazing is that he built it, took it down, shipped it ten miles, and reconstructed again...by himself! People estimate he weighed around 100 pounds. He was so tiny that he eventually died of malnutrition.

Yeah, I had never heard of Coral castle. That is amazing. Unbelievable really. I wish he had shared his trick with us before he died.

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Originally Posted by joesomebody (Post 6824795)

Yeah, I had never heard of Coral castle. That is amazing. Unbelievable really. I wish he had shared his trick with us before he died.

No one witnessed this happening?

It was in the early 1900's...not B.C.

He worked at night. In secret. Built the whole damn thing using some weird magnetic thingy that levitated the blocks (or so they say).

FAX

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Originally Posted by DMAC (Post 6824812)

No one witnessed this happening?

It was in the early 1900's...not B.C.

Apparently not.

I first heard about Coral Castle on some old show that Leonard Nimoy hosted. None of the locals could catch him moving, setting up, or cutting these big stones. I remember the story of the trucker delivering a large stone, turning his back for a minute, and the old fart some how had the stone unloaded off the truck without a crane or tools.

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Originally Posted by rockymtnchief (Post 6824832)

:hmmm:

If he could levitate boulders, you think he would do something else besides build a castle, then move the castle.

http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/Researc...ry/magneto.gif

my grandpa dug out two basement witha pick,shovel, & barrow.

Structures made with little rocks can be disassembled easily by smaller attacking forces. If you need 5,000 people to take apart a huge stone structure, it's going to last a lot longer.