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Riles said:
Wet-sanding, duh...
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they's a lotta work removing a lotta rock, in a precise manner, before you get to the wet sanding phase. And the walls would have to be pretty fuckin flat even before sanding.

All while working in total darkness with the only light provided being by way of fire.

Not to mention the complications of having fires in enclosed spaces. Carbon monoxide wut?
 
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JR4X said:
Those lugs had to be for lifting. Even if we don’t know what they had to lift them with. That stuff is granite IIRC but if we didn’t know for sure that those have been standing right there for thousands of years I think we’d assume those were poured in a form.
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The Greeks used lugs like that for seismic stability. Granted, they were on the top of the stone primarily. But I wonder if it's a similar purpose.

With the amount of care given to these tight fitting joints, seems strange they would leave ugly lugs sitting off the side without popping them off. Unless they weren't meant to be seen.
 
Deuce 40s said:
The Greeks used lugs like that for seismic stability. Granted, they were on the top of the stone primarily. But I wonder if it's a similar purpose.

With the amount of care given to these tight fitting joints, seems strange they would leave ugly lugs sitting off the side without popping them off. Unless they weren't meant to be seen.
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I can imagine wrapping a rope around that stone and if there's lugs on the other side it worked great for lifting or sliding the stone in place.
 
No idea on how they manhandled stones into place but


I wonder maybe stones weren’t precisely mated to each others when constructed. Stones wear down after many earthquakes and the roundness at edges are just from erosion.

By the way Inca stones are a composition of volcanic rocks if I remember correctly.
 
The rocks in those pics are granitic, not really volcanic. A subtle but clear distinction and difference. Volcanic rocks in general useage means cooled as an extrusive, at or near the surface resulting in fine crystal size or glass. Granitic rocks are an entire chemical suite but are characterized by cooling deep and under tremendous pressure over long periods of time. This results in greater mineral differentiation and greater size. You are off the hook but when any Youtube quack states with any authority on these stones and calls them volcanic, he loses credibility. It's sloppy and discredits any perceived competence.
 
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Splib said:
The rocks in those pics are granitic, not really volcanic. A subtle but clear distinction and difference. Volcanic rocks in general useage means cooled as an extrusive, at or near the surface resulting in fine crystal size or glass. Granitic rocks are an entire chemical suite but are characterized by cooling deep and under tremendous pressure over long periods of time. This results in greater mineral differentiation and greater size. You are off the hook but when any Youtube quack states with any authority on these stones and calls them volcanic, he loses credibility. It's sloppy and discredits any perceived competence.
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:laughing: I was waiting for you... :beer:
 
Splib said:
The rocks in those pics are granitic, not really volcanic. A subtle but clear distinction and difference. Volcanic rocks in general useage means cooled as an extrusive, at or near the surface resulting in fine crystal size or glass. Granitic rocks are an entire chemical suite but are characterized by cooling deep and under tremendous pressure over long periods of time. This results in greater mineral differentiation and greater size. You are off the hook but when any Youtube quack states with any authority on these stones and calls them volcanic, he loses credibility. It's sloppy and discredits any perceived competence.
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Probably just poured concrete into bags or other kinds of forms as instructed by the aliens from Nibiriu.
 
Aliens have / had much better tech than we did especially at that time, we must have pissed them off hence the reason they dont visit anymore!
 
Limestone is pretty soft. Guy has artistic talent, but sculpting limestone isnt hard. Do that with marble and it says something.

Some of the prehistoric walls are made from substantially hard stone, which brings questions on tooling and methods.
 
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