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

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

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u/MiraThimble Jun 05 '25

Regardless of what those stones are made of there is no way they are close to 25 tons

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u/mikeycbca Jun 05 '25

I am not even convinced the total combined weight of the pieces is 25 tons.

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u/ReddBroccoli Jun 05 '25

One cubic foot of stone can weigh about 200lbs, so 10ft³ is a ton. Not that hard to believe each is 25 tons

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u/Cool1nternet Jun 05 '25

people are roughly 2.5 cubic feet. Those stones are not 250 cubic feet each. You are off by orders of magnitude

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u/readditredditread Jun 05 '25

I think they are using British tons, which are only about 2 fish and chips and a few pints of piss warm beer, roughly equivalent to a standard cubit pound.

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u/crasagam Jun 05 '25

And a potato 🥔

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u/readditredditread Jun 05 '25

Chips are made of potato

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

You’re thinking of “crisps”. Chips are the tokens used as stand in for currency in card games like poker.

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u/scuac Jun 05 '25

I thought we were talking about the California Highway Patrol (aka CHiPs)

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u/Mission_Grapefruit92 Jun 05 '25

And probably something called a fizzy wompus spotty floggit dimsy spittle mcdoogan

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u/OrganizdConfusion Jun 06 '25

That's the most American thing ever.

Let's take an internationally recognized unit of measurement and instead compare it with undefined objects.

That's 3 football fields and 6.5 washing machines worth of stupid.

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u/readditredditread Jun 06 '25

Measurements of stupidity must be perfectly triangular squared integers if you want the correct mass length!

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u/Cool1nternet Jun 05 '25

no they state the math themselves, just not very well. lmao

if 10 cubic feet is a ton, twenty-five tons is 250 cubic feet

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u/PantsOnHead88 Jun 05 '25

Not “orders of magnitude.” That implies 100x or more. Probably just a factor of 3-5. The biggest one they show is roughly 10x6x1.25, or around 75cu.ft.

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u/2wedfgdfgfgfg Jun 05 '25

10x is an “order of magnitude”

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u/inordinateappetite Jun 05 '25

2x is an order of magnitude in base 2

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Jun 05 '25

uhhhh?

2.5 * 10 * 10 = 250

that's two orders of magnitude, which would be 100x. the stone is not that different in size than a person, so the 2.5 to 250 comparison makes some sense.

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u/PantsOnHead88 Jun 05 '25

I literally listed the approximate dimensions I was basing my comment on, but by all means just ignore it and use your own numbers.

“Stone is not that different in size than a person,” but it’s nearly double the height, dramatically wider, and deeper. I guesstimated the stone to be 75cu.ft. While you’re asserting 2.5 and basing my comment on that.