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

[Georg Wrede]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Probably. But I bet they squished quite a few peasants transporting 
> them. Off the top of my head, it seems the largest of the stones was 
> said to weigh around 20 000 tons.

Let's just say 20 tons.