[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Ellery Newcomer]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>> Jerry Pournelle defines a Dark Age as a time when not only is the
>> knowledge of how to do things forgotten, but even that these things are
>> possible.  Usually folks’d ascribe some large construction (like the
>> pyramids, the walls of Crete, &c.) to magic or the gods or some such.
> 
> I remember one of those idiot "In Search Of..." type shows in the 70's 
> saying that the fit of stones in South America was so tight you couldn't 
>  put a knife blade between them. Therefore, the stone walls must have 
> been made by aliens.
> 
> Never mind why would aliens with such advanced tech would build a 
> crooked lumpy stone wall like that anyway.
> 
> But a few years later, some archeologist demonstrated how to make such a 
> fit by banging a couple stones together. Took him 30 minutes per 
> surface. No aliens or even tools were required.

I've not heard about that, any good links on the subject?

Some of the rocks at Sacsayhuaman were pretty dang huge, though.