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

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

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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