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Originally posted by dominicus
Dr. Jarl, who went to Tibet and witnessed groups of Buddhist monks levitating giant mega-ton stones using sound waves (instruments and singing), made two seperate videos upon which bringing them back to England, were supposedly confiscated by some English society.
Originally posted by AcesInTheHole
Maybe they could advance this technology to levitate heavier objects in the future.
Originally posted by squiz
How on Earth?
[edit on 23-9-2007 by squiz]
Originally posted by steve22
if you notice, as the object's mass increases, so does the pitch required to levitate the object. an object of such mass as a large 2000 lb stone would require a pitch that is out of our sensory range, as well as out of our range of sound production
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Nothing that a few 100,000 slaves and a few decades can't over come.
n 1996, I posed the problem of the Baalbek stones to Baldwins Industrial Services - one of the leading crane hire companies in Britain. I asked them how they might attempt to move the 1,000-ton Stone of the South and place it at the same height as the Trilithon.
Although it is sometimes claimed that modern cranes cannot lift stones as heavy as 800-tons,[9] this is actually incorrect. Bob MacGrain, the Technical Director of Baldwins, confirmed that there were several mobile cranes that could lift and place the 1,000-ton stone on a support structure 20 feet high. Baldwins themselves operate a 1,200 ton capacity Gottwald AK912 strut jib crane,[10] whilst other companies operate cranes which can lift 2,000 tons. Unfortunately, however, these cranes do not have the capability to actually move whilst carrying such heavy loads.
How, then, might we transport the Stone of the South to the Baalbek acropolis?
Baldwins suggested two possibilities. The first would use a 1,000-ton capacity crane fitted with crawler tracks. The disadvantage of this method would be the need for massive ground preparation works - to provide a solid, level roadway for the crane to move.
The alternative to a crane would be a series of modular hydraulic trailers, combined to create a massive load carrying platform. These trailers raise and lower their loads using hydraulic cylinders built into their suspension. The initial lift at the quarry would be achieved by the use of a cut-out section beneath the stone, which the trailer would drive into. The final positioning in the wall, at a height of 20 feet, would be achieved by using an earth ramp.
This is all very interesting, and gives us some feel for the scale of the engineering challenge, but there is, of course, one slight problem with the Baldwins scenario, namely that none of this twentieth century technology was supposedly available when Baalbek was built.
Originally posted by squiz
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Nothing that a few 100,000 slaves and a few decades can't over come.
Ah well then mystery solved.
Some estimates have said about 40,000 men would be required, The Baalbek monolith is estimated to be over 1000 tons, that would easily crush any rollers used to transport it. It can barely be accomplished even with todays technology.