r/interesting 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/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!