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Harte Wrote:
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> Ratcho Wrote:
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> > Sacsayhuaman...perfectly fitted multi ton stones
> -
> > chip a little off here, a little there?
> >
> > I can show you many examples of failed modern
> > attempts - they thought it would be so easy...
> ;
> > )
> >
> > What are the successes you would direct me to? Stocks?
> >
> > I'm guessing that you are of the view that Dunn is
> > a quackpot engineer.
>
> Do you have any evidence that these stones are
> "perfectly fit together" anywhere on them other
> than their faces?
>
> Harte
I have been to Cuzco and Machu Picchu and those bolders are "perfectly" fit. Even in the joints between the andesite boulders that weigh hundreds of tons at Sacsayhuaman you cannot see any space at all anywhere along the joint. You cannot fit a sheet of paper or the tip of a needle there. The only indication that there's a joint is the bulbous nature of the rock surfaces. There are instances where blocks have been separated and the internal joints are exposed as curved pockets into the stone and often rise to razor sharp peaks where several blocks join to make the complex joint. It's one of the most staggering things I've ever seen on Earth. There is simply no way to imagine the irregular non-planar surfaces of those rocks being individually filed/pounded/polished down in a trial and error process.
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> Ratcho Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> > Sacsayhuaman...perfectly fitted multi ton stones
> -
> > chip a little off here, a little there?
> >
> > I can show you many examples of failed modern
> > attempts - they thought it would be so easy...
> ;
> > )
> >
> > What are the successes you would direct me to? Stocks?
> >
> > I'm guessing that you are of the view that Dunn is
> > a quackpot engineer.
>
> Do you have any evidence that these stones are
> "perfectly fit together" anywhere on them other
> than their faces?
>
> Harte
I have been to Cuzco and Machu Picchu and those bolders are "perfectly" fit. Even in the joints between the andesite boulders that weigh hundreds of tons at Sacsayhuaman you cannot see any space at all anywhere along the joint. You cannot fit a sheet of paper or the tip of a needle there. The only indication that there's a joint is the bulbous nature of the rock surfaces. There are instances where blocks have been separated and the internal joints are exposed as curved pockets into the stone and often rise to razor sharp peaks where several blocks join to make the complex joint. It's one of the most staggering things I've ever seen on Earth. There is simply no way to imagine the irregular non-planar surfaces of those rocks being individually filed/pounded/polished down in a trial and error process.
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