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

[Walter Bright]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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?

Sorry, saw it on TV long ago.


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

The same principle should work.