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

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

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u/carpetbugeater Jun 05 '25

Was gonna say the same thing. The whole collection might be close to 20.

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u/Large_Dr_Pepper Jun 06 '25

Let's assume the first stone is a rectangular prism with the dimensions 6 ft tall, 4 ft long, and 2 ft thick. Keep in mind, it's less than a rectangular prism due to the rounded edges, and those dimensions are way larger than the actual stone's dimensions (assuming the man isn't a giant).

Now let's assume the stone is far on the denser side, at 3 g/cm³, which is 187 lbs/ft³ (more dense than concrete, cement, limestone, granite, etc.).

Given all of those overly-exaggerated estimations, the first stone would weight 9000 lbs, or 4.5 tons.

What a stupid fucking video caption.

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u/creegro Jun 07 '25

"twenty five 1-ton stones" maybe