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  • brier-49
    Everybody who beleives in levitation raise MY hand.
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  • buschmaster
    I don't know, but I've looked into it, and I'd agree they seemingly did the impossible, and well, levitation does look like the best answer, however improbable.

    mr. Leedskalnin was probably the best study of evidence there is. he did it by himself, and he claimed he had found the "secrets of the ancients". it seems he couldn't have done what he did any other way, like when he rented a truck to transport those huge blocks of stone, and every day would have the truck loaded, delivered and unloaded all by himself.

    and one time some guy watched him from behind a bush or something to see how he did it, and saw him snoozing, like he was slacking on purpose, instead of doing it all in 3 hours or whatever to keep people from becoming suspicious.

    also there's the story of some kid who went to spy on him after dark when the stones were unloaded and says he saw large blocks of stone floating around in the air.

    although he was into his own uneducated research of electric stuff and magnetics, and had a shop full of that stuff including block-and-tackle type stuff, and he did mention using it to move the stones including some kind of track, there wasn't any seen in use.

    I examined his magnetics research and what he found, described most of the basic phenomenon you find in a sophomore level physics book. his understanding of how it worked was wrong, but you've got to give him credit for figuring out everything he did from scratch. he was pretty damn clever, however inaccurate.

    but still, the magnetics principles he discovered, a) aren't anything we don't already know, b) can't be used to move large blocks of stone -or else they would already be in use by everybody else too, and c) don't have a thing to do with any kind of ancient knowledge. they didn't know a thing about electricity.

    I think the egyptians supposedly did it with a flute, as long as they could lift up a stone to get a certain rug under it, the flute would get it to levitate with the stone on top.

    I think there's something to levitation, but I'm as clueless as you are.

    I've talked about this with other people, and like I said to them, IF this is true and we figure it out someday, the implications would be enormous. the world would be turned on its ear.
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  • sheepdip
    Kite
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  • jabronij3
    3 prominent gb forum members talked them up there[}:)][:D]
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  • DancesWithSheep
    The most reasonable explanation of one instance for me was provided by a Teaching Assistant I had at Berkeley who witnessed the Indian rope trick. He secretly filmed the event from a window above the courtyard where the fakir performed. He said both the basket and rope were clearly in his viewfinder, but when the film was developed, the rope did not appear. He concluded, and I agree, albeit the least appealing to our manic compulsion for mysticism, that there never was a rope and the trick is merely a form of mass hypnosis.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    You'd be amazed at what one can do with the Edit Button.
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  • WWII_Enthusiast
    We had a lift here over that past summer that was a million pounds. I'm sure the ancients had a super crane of some sort. There was a show on this just the other day on the history channel.
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  • DancesWithSheep
    quote:Originally posted by WWII_Enthusiast
    We had a lift here over that past summer that was a million pounds.

    I wondered how they got rid of all the BS on this board.
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  • matwor
    From what I understand, there were some guys talking about stones in one thread and several others in yet, God forbid, another thread talking about stones as well. The next thing you know a pig comes along and moves it effortlessly from one place to another. Mind you this was not just any pig, was he an Anglo pig, no I tell you he was a Saxon Pig!!
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  • WWII_Enthusiast
    It was a hearth for a blast furnace. Hmmm wait a minute, it MAY have been a tandom lift not sure as I wasn't on that job at the time but I do remember them saying it was a million pounds.
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  • 11b6r
    The PTC III crane (aka Mo-Mo) has a capacity of approx 1600 tons. Built by Mammoet of Holland.
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  • wallie
    mmm.jpg
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