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I've been to the Pantheon and I've been to Saqsaywaman (Inca) The pantheon is amazing and I can see how humans built it Saqsaywaman is amazing and I have no i

by aorloff 8mo ago

I've been to the Pantheon and I've been to Saqsaywaman (Inca) The pantheon is amazing and I can see how humans built it Saqsaywaman is amazing and I have no idea how the hell it was done, even with today's machinery you don't see stones joined like that

jxnsbdbd 8mo ago
Joining stones in that way is very common in highway construction Sure it was much more expensive back then to find matching stones than now with laser measuring and computer predication But it's basically the same process
nkrisc 8mo ago
> I have no idea how the hell it was done, even with today's machinery you don't see stones joined like that Skilled tradesmen with lots of time. It’s impressive, but it’s nothing magical.
- roughly 8mo ago
  I think it was Teller who said the secret to a good magic trick was to put in so much effort that no reasonable person would assume that’s what you’d done.
  - aorloff 8mo ago
    If you wanted to join a bunch of stones so well that there were no seams, using manual labor, would you pick shapes like these to confuse the hell out of future humans who would wonder how you did it with manual labor ? https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_hatunrumiyoc_twelve-angled_stone https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_hatunrumiyo... Because if its all just a giant magic trick to amaze us future humans, it worked.
    - roughly 8mo ago
      Humans have been artists and show offs as long as we’ve been human. I don’t know if the craftsman who cut that thought people a millennium later would still be impressed by it, but I’m sure they’d be happy as hell that we are.
- aorloff 8mo ago
  Check it out for yourself. Its magical
gus_massa 8mo ago
There is an article that was posted recently https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342950 | 172 points | 55 days ago | 46 comments) The most important bit is in the middle https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_masonry_concave_bedding https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_masonry_con... The stones were concave, so the match perfectly only outside and have some kind of mortar inside the wall.

by aorloff 8mo ago

jxnsbdbd 8mo ago

Joining stones in that way is very common in highway construction Sure it was much more expensive back then to find matching stones than now with laser measuring and computer predication But it's basically the same process

nkrisc 8mo ago

> I have no idea how the hell it was done, even with today's machinery you don't see stones joined like that Skilled tradesmen with lots of time. It’s impressive, but it’s nothing magical.

roughly 8mo ago
I think it was Teller who said the secret to a good magic trick was to put in so much effort that no reasonable person would assume that’s what you’d done.
- aorloff 8mo ago
  If you wanted to join a bunch of stones so well that there were no seams, using manual labor, would you pick shapes like these to confuse the hell out of future humans who would wonder how you did it with manual labor ? https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_hatunrumiyoc_twelve-angled_stone https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_hatunrumiyo... Because if its all just a giant magic trick to amaze us future humans, it worked.
  - roughly 8mo ago
    Humans have been artists and show offs as long as we’ve been human. I don’t know if the craftsman who cut that thought people a millennium later would still be impressed by it, but I’m sure they’d be happy as hell that we are.
aorloff 8mo ago
Check it out for yourself. Its magical

gus_massa 8mo ago

There is an article that was posted recently https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342950 | 172 points | 55 days ago | 46 comments) The most important bit is in the middle https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_masonry_concave_bedding https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_masonry_con... The stones were concave, so the match perfectly only outside and have some kind of mortar inside the wall.