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Eiffel tower: 10,000 tons Great pyramid: 5 or 6 million tons So only around 500 times as much moving material around, feasible I guess. You might need a dedic
by card_zero 4mo ago
Eiffel tower: 10,000 tons
Great pyramid: 5 or 6 million tons
So only around 500 times as much moving material around, feasible I guess. You might need a dedicated rail line built direct to the quarry.
Funny to mention cathedrals considering that they finished one in Spain just recently. There's also Guédelon Castle in France, still being slowly built.
- marshray 4mo agoFor anyone interested in modern humans' ability to move material around when it is economically advantageous to do so, try a web image search for "largest open pit mines".
- sscaryterry 4mo agoThere is a big difference though between placing blocks precisely, and running dump trucks.
- marshray 4mo agoLook up a photo of one of the large mining trucks and compare it to the size of the blocks used in the Egyptian pyramids. Working with blocks of this size is just not a problem for modern equipment.
- AngryData 4mo agoTo be fair you got to also move a lot of ore to refine that metal. But there was also a lot of mechanically generated power used to get it.