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originally posted by: KnightLight
originally posted by: Mianeye
a reply to: Woodcarver
You clearly didn't read the link i provided
v cuts that take 3 to 5 hours per centimeter??
300 to 500 hours to cut a meter sized block, one cut..
Losing 40 cm of copper, at the least, and up to 2.5 meters of copper if dry sand instead of wet.
You'd have to make at least one saw per cut, and probably more than that.
originally posted by: KnightLight
originally posted by: Painterz
a reply to: KnightLight
It's been proven via experimental archaeology.
Can you show me?
And I really am asking.
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: Harte
Im afraid those are not good examples at all of the same thing. The needles are easily made with heat and forms, or shaping in a multitude of ways. The comb is bone and flint shatter easily with a harder stone. How does that contribute anything in the context presented.
(Why can't people have some decorum and have a discussion any more? Everyone has to act like they are somehow the ultimate arbiters of intelligence and everyone else must be stupid if they entertain novel ideas.)
originally posted by: Woodcarver
Def a saw. Prob not copper. Quartz dust would be the most likely cutting agent.
originally posted by: Signals
a reply to: SonOfTheLawOfOne
Very interesting point....
Why haven't they done this?
That the blades of the saws were of bronze, we know from the green staining on the sides of saw cuts, and on grains of sand left in a saw cut.
Read more: www.touregypt.net...
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: Woodcarver
The only thing completely obvious in this mystery is that archeaology
has fudged an explanation that doesn't stand up. And that is tantamount
to it's credibility IMO.
originally posted by: Triton1128
a reply to: Harte
And if you think a small rounded basalt axe head is on par with a monolithic block with polished surface and 90* cut marks. . Your blind as a bat.
originally posted by: 3n19m470
a reply to: Harte
"If copper chisels can't be used to make these things, then - ALIENS!!!"
Who said anything about aliens? You assume too much, my friend. The title refers to lost ANCIENT technology.
What exactly about that means it's not possible?
originally posted by: 3n19m470
a reply to: Harte
"If copper chisels can't be used to make these things, then - ALIENS!!!"
Who said anything about aliens? You assume too much, my friend. The title refers to lost ANCIENT technology.
originally posted by: Triton1128
originally posted by: 3n19m470
a reply to: Harte
"If copper chisels can't be used to make these things, then - ALIENS!!!"
Who said anything about aliens? You assume too much, my friend. The title refers to lost ANCIENT technology.
Because by him stating something silly and stupid. He gets all the lurkers who think like him to star his comment. Also, he side tracks the topic at hand. Its a 2 for 1 and the sole reason he dwells here
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Triton1128
originally posted by: 3n19m470
a reply to: Harte
"If copper chisels can't be used to make these things, then - ALIENS!!!"
Who said anything about aliens? You assume too much, my friend. The title refers to lost ANCIENT technology.
Because by him stating something silly and stupid. He gets all the lurkers who think like him to star his comment. Also, he side tracks the topic at hand. Its a 2 for 1 and the sole reason he dwells here
As opposed to breathlessly exclaiming a deep and abiding faith in anything at all that opposes opinions espoused by archaeologists that are in a better position to know these things?
I stated why I said what I said. I don't see an answer to my question concerning exactly why anyone would think it impossible to saw basalt or granite with slabbing saws, if a particular type of shape required it.
95% or more of the Great Pyramid is limestone which can be easily, but didn't need to be, sawn. The Granite in the Great Pyramid wasn't sawn either.
Yet you and others pretend that meter-long saw cuts were required.
Show me one.
Harte
originally posted by: Triton1128
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Triton1128
originally posted by: 3n19m470
a reply to: Harte
"If copper chisels can't be used to make these things, then - ALIENS!!!"
Who said anything about aliens? You assume too much, my friend. The title refers to lost ANCIENT technology.
Because by him stating something silly and stupid. He gets all the lurkers who think like him to star his comment. Also, he side tracks the topic at hand. Its a 2 for 1 and the sole reason he dwells here
As opposed to breathlessly exclaiming a deep and abiding faith in anything at all that opposes opinions espoused by archaeologists that are in a better position to know these things?
I stated why I said what I said. I don't see an answer to my question concerning exactly why anyone would think it impossible to saw basalt or granite with slabbing saws, if a particular type of shape required it.
95% or more of the Great Pyramid is limestone which can be easily, but didn't need to be, sawn. The Granite in the Great Pyramid wasn't sawn either.
Yet you and others pretend that meter-long saw cuts were required.
Show me one.
Harte
A quick and simple google search that you seem quite proficient at supplied me with this :
Halted saw cut
and I won't even go here.. not yet. We'll save THIS debate for another day ~
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Triton1128
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Triton1128
originally posted by: 3n19m470
a reply to: Harte
"If copper chisels can't be used to make these things, then - ALIENS!!!"
Who said anything about aliens? You assume too much, my friend. The title refers to lost ANCIENT technology.
Because by him stating something silly and stupid. He gets all the lurkers who think like him to star his comment. Also, he side tracks the topic at hand. Its a 2 for 1 and the sole reason he dwells here
As opposed to breathlessly exclaiming a deep and abiding faith in anything at all that opposes opinions espoused by archaeologists that are in a better position to know these things?
I stated why I said what I said. I don't see an answer to my question concerning exactly why anyone would think it impossible to saw basalt or granite with slabbing saws, if a particular type of shape required it.
95% or more of the Great Pyramid is limestone which can be easily, but didn't need to be, sawn. The Granite in the Great Pyramid wasn't sawn either.
Yet you and others pretend that meter-long saw cuts were required.
Show me one.
Harte
A quick and simple google search that you seem quite proficient at supplied me with this :
Halted saw cut
and I won't even go here.. not yet. We'll save THIS debate for another day ~
Of course you won't "go there."
There is no "there" to go to, unless you want to claim the small cut in your pic is a meter deep and that multiples of such meter-deep cuts were necessary.
Baalbek stones weren't sawn either.
Harte