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How the Ancients Cut Stone with Sound Waves
Ancient Architects ^ | 12/20/2017 | Arthur Keely

Posted on 12/27/2019 5:42:49 PM PST by wildbill

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To: wildbill

If you could use sound waves to cut stone you’d have no ear drums left.


61 posted on 12/28/2019 1:27:33 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I see what you did there.


62 posted on 12/28/2019 1:28:33 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: a fool in paradise

BOOKbump


63 posted on 12/28/2019 1:30:47 AM PST by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW.)
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To: DoughtyOne

What Antony’s accidental firing of the Library did not destroy, the remainder were worked over by the early Christians, until relieved from that unhappy work by the muslims who preserved a few texts here and there as it suited their whims and helped build the false narrative that muslims made great contributions to the world - besides slaughtering 285 million people.


64 posted on 12/28/2019 2:17:31 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: wildbill

I avoid The History Channel on Fridays and Saturdays, but the goofy sounding narrator guy who only speaks in questions, always catches up with me on Tuesday for Curse of Oak Island.


65 posted on 12/28/2019 3:26:52 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

We have a winnah !!

Seriously, I am inclined to think that homo sapiens as we know him today is probably v2.0 or higher. It explains the existence of artifacts that require a high degree of technical knowledge to build. Some of these date back to before the Neanderthals.


66 posted on 12/28/2019 4:03:00 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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To: TexasGator
I learned that steel is a non-ferrous metal!

Steel comes in lots of flavors, some are ferrous, some are not.

67 posted on 12/28/2019 4:51:24 AM PST by Disambiguator ("Progressives" want government in action. Conservatives want government inaction.)
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To: Disambiguator

All are ferrous. It is the embodiment of the definition of steel.


68 posted on 12/28/2019 5:42:17 AM PST by GingisK
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To: atc23

I was being factious. I read on how it was done and they had hard packed dirt up the side of the pyramid they were building and that’s how they got the blocks of limestone up.


69 posted on 12/28/2019 6:31:20 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Nothing matches my sadness about the torch the Democrats are putting to the U.S. Constitution.

Agree.

We must fight regardless of the naysayers and critics who tell us to relax.

Those people can "relax" in the American gulags after a 12 hour day at hard labor for the Communists. "I guess you guys were right. We should have fought."

70 posted on 12/28/2019 7:23:27 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Fred Nerks; a fool in paradise
Thanks for the pings Fred Nerks and a fool in paradise.

71 posted on 12/28/2019 7:28:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: aquila48

Yes.

The “ignorant fools” line of my post applies perfectly to the Americans who hate the country so much they want to physically erase history by dishonoring people and their memory.

Next “First they burned the books, then they burned the people.” Don’t think for a second they would hesitate to do that to Trump or any of his supporters.


72 posted on 12/28/2019 7:32:03 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: TexasGator

Yes, my wife carries a magnet with her. If we are looking for stainless steel items for the boat, and it sticks to the magnet, we can’t use it.

Good Stainless Steel is not magnetic.


73 posted on 12/28/2019 8:11:56 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3798099/posts?page=145#145
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/cutting.html
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/images/cuttingslide05.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/cutting07.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/images/cuttingslide07_2.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/cutting08.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/images/cuttingslide08_1.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/images/cuttingslide08_2.jpg


74 posted on 12/28/2019 10:01:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: fella

From what I saw yesterday, it seems that’s likely.


75 posted on 12/28/2019 11:14:06 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: DoughtyOne

Could he slam a 80 ton stone against a 140 tonner? Dang, I’d pay to see that.


76 posted on 12/28/2019 1:10:05 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: SkyDancer

That floating the stones up was a dang ingenious theory though. I bet it took a lot of his “playtime in the day room” at his institution


77 posted on 12/28/2019 1:12:02 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: SkyDancer

That floating the stones up was a dang ingenious theory though. I bet it took a lot of his “playtime in the day room” at his institution


78 posted on 12/28/2019 1:12:13 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: American in Israel

Already posted that one.


79 posted on 12/28/2019 1:12:54 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: TChad

The main thing is that using sonic drills with sound waves today, people are cutting through earth, stone, wood, etc.

all you have to do is watch Curse of Oak Island. They have used sonic drilling in their attempts to find the tunnels that lead to something...


80 posted on 12/28/2019 1:18:57 PM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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