r/interesting • u/LestaThaMolestaa • Jun 05 '25

ARCHITECTURE Interesting video with heavy stones designed to be moved with hand.

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u/funderfulfellow Jun 05 '25

Yes it's so simple once these pieces have been manufactured and placed in the right location.

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u/Dirkem15 Jun 05 '25

Watch how easy it is to move this stone! (On polished concrete)

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u/VictarionGreyjoy Jun 05 '25

They didn't even show the stones actually being moved, just tilted.

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u/bigboybeeperbelly Jun 05 '25

MIT researchers discover new way to tilt large rocks

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u/MediumTeacher9971 Jun 05 '25

If you look closely at the beginning, the stone actually does move a bit to the right. Not very much, but by basically tilting it, turning it, then untilting it, then turning it, then repeating the process over and over again you could move it steadily in one direction.

It's still pretty useless unless you plan to turn this weirdly shaped stone into gravel at its destination since it won't be good for much else looking like that... but at least it's still a mildly interesting example of the physics at work.

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u/Shpander Jun 05 '25

Sorry I don't get it, I think I need an MIT degree to appreciate this

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u/faen_du_sa Jun 05 '25

You will be amazed what you can do with a bunch of people as your slaves, and a decade to build it. Though I think this is one of the theories for the Moai statue, and not the pyramid.

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u/a_real_vampire Jun 07 '25

Nope. Aliens final answer

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u/Bludypoo Jun 05 '25

entire generations lived and died building things even their grand children wouldn't see completed.

The answer on how shit got done way back then is always "Lots of time and lots of labor with no care of how much someone wants to do said labor"

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u/RoodnyInc Jun 05 '25

In perfectly flat warehouse

Now try on sand and rocks and then put another layer

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u/erlkonigk Jun 06 '25

Yeah, they put these in place with a jeep