• mtchristo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Now find sticks or stick assembly strong enough to lift a few tones of stone without breaking at the rotation center

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      1 year ago

      Stick assembly is the key thing.

      You’re not going to find a thread strong enough to pull a few tonnes of stone, but you can easily pull it with a large number of ropes pulled by a few hundred people.

      Similarly, a single 8x8 beam as a lever arm would just snap, but a dozen 8x8 beams as lever arms for a dozen levers probably wouldn’t.