<p>how the stones at Stonehenge may have been moved.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0)</p>
<p>that’s amazing…</p>
<p>That is very interesting. Very cool. I don’t know about the SAT score. Who knows? Some very smart people live very low key lives.</p>
<p>People who can handle and figure out mechanical things are terrific. He said he didn’t use any “machines,” but levers and so forth are in fact simple machines.</p>
<p>Who the hell cares what he’d score on the SAT? The man is obviously someone of formidable intelligence. Engineers and Physicists have been working on the mystery of how Stonehenge was erected for many decades, but apparently, this guy is the first one who has posited a very real and logical theory (one he’s been able to physically demonstrate). All I can say is, “Wow!”</p>
<p>This is pretty awesome. Sounds like a reasonable explanation to me!!!</p>
<p>The SAT remark was a joke.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. Good stuff.</p>
<p>That is so cool, I can hardly wait to show my sons. Thank you for the link!</p>
<p>
Actually, he said he didn’t use any “mechanical machines.” I took that to mean he was making a clear distinction between simple machines and more complex machines, particularly those that are motorized. He is brilliant.</p>
<p>um, just had a reminder: High SAT scores don’t mean much out in the real world. Problem solving and common sense skills are more practical.</p>
<p>It says on YouTube that this clip is two years old. I wonder why we didn’t hear about this before now? Wouldn’t you think the media would have picked this up??</p>
<p>Hey, I got sent that one by my mechanical engineer FIL about six months ago. It came with a link to a BBC article. They have picked it up.</p>
<p>I think he got it. How many times have we slipped on small pebbles. Never thought that smaller would be better.</p>
<p>Now if he could explain the construction of the great pyramids…</p>
<p><a href=“%5Burl=http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1059870185-post15.html]#15[/url]”>quote</a> Now if he could explain the construction of the great pyramids…
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Theories abound, but it’s not hard to use a little out-of-the-box thinking (pun intended as you will soon see ;)) to imagine how a stone block can be wrapped in a wheel.</p>
<p>Assuming the following represents a stone block:</p>
<p> []</p>
<p>We can simply build a wooden wheel around it to move it more easily:</p>
<p> <a href=“%5B/b%5D%5B/color%5D%5Bb%5D%5Bcolor=blue%5D%5B%5D%5B/color%5D%5B/b%5D%5Bcolor=red%5D%5Bb%5D”>b</a>**</p>
<p>“his passion is moving heavy items”</p>
<p>not something you see everyday</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>HUH, that still would make it quite difficult to move those stones uphill, as is needed in a pyramid.</p>
<p><a href=“%5Burl=http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1059877118-post17.html]#17[/url]”>quote</a> HUH, that still would make it quite difficult to move those stones uphill, as is needed in a pyramid.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Not if you build a temporary inclined plane / to roll the blocks up:
<a href=“%5B/color%5D%5B%5D%5Bcolor=red%5D”>color=red</a>[/color]/
…/
…/</p>
<p>See [‘The</a> Puzzle of the Pyramids’](<a href=“http://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/pyramids.htm]'The”>The Puzzle of the Pyramids -- Courtesy of Return To Glory...) for more details and better graphics.</p>
<p>Nice use of College Confidential graphics.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link!</p>
<p>I saw a show (Nova?) that gave a similar but more dangerous technique for standing an obelisque up. They used a pit but instead of water they were actually in there shoveling sand out. Kind of tricky…I like this method better.</p>