Warwick Wrote:
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> ...my tongue is STUCK in my cheek.
>
>
> "So the downward counterweight had to be filled
> enough to move heavier one and over come friction,
> got there the water was dumped, stones but on it
> while the upwards one was emptied of stone and
> filled with water. "
>
> that seems like a lot of rigging rerigging and
> work...
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to just drag the thing while
> the rocket scientists were busy computing
> trajectory and resistance?
>
>
> Warwick,

So Warwick,

Having a problem understanding a concept taught in elementary school, are we? 
It's a Counter Balance. Did you not get to play outside, and throw a rope over a limb with one of your friends, and try and pull him up into the tree? Too many joystick adventures?

I suppose you could be right, they may have been dumb ass stone pullers. Has it occurred to you, they would have encountered the same amount, if not more,  friction pulling stones up the causeway and winding ramps? Seems like alot of rigging and work? So, you think men performing the work vs. water performing the work, is somehow less work?

So to answer your question, wouldn't it be easier to just drag the thing... NO, it would not be! Belittling the the concept with "rocket scientist busy computing trajectory and resistance", only reveals your lack of intelligence, and spitefulness.

What's wrong with you? Did I attack your sacred COW, again?