Vasile Surducan wrote:
> Read Thor Heyerdal's books
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
> about the Easter's Island.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island
>
> He tried used only humans and local tehnique to build and arise a 15
> tons statue...Did'nt succed to rise only a small one.

The "Junior Skeptic" of the latest issue of Skeptic magazine talks about 
this very topic.

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"Like Moving a Sofa"

We also know how they moved these massive statues: the same way you'd move a 
heavy sofa. Well, not exactly the same -- it would have to be a pretty big 
sofa. And it would have to be made of solid stone. But otherwise, the trick 
is the same: get a bunch of people to help you.

In a test, a group of 180 modern Easter Islanders were able to easily drag a 
12-ton statue using ropes. Amazingly, according to an archaeologist involved 
in teh test, "once it got up onto the hard soil, we could have cut that crew 
down by at least one-half. Once they got it out of the sand, they really 
started tearing with this thing, and we had to stop them, or they would have 
pulled it away from the actual site."

[...]

We'll see this theme a lot as we look at other mysteries like Stonehenge and 
the pyramids: *moving big rocks isn't that hard if enough people work 
together!*

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The next example they have, cites a dozen guys lifting a 30-ton statue into 
position "slowly, over 18 days, and one small step at a time".

Vitaliy


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