I am rather saddened by this video excerpt. In it, a retired Michigan construction worker has figured out a simple method for moving massively heavy objects. He demonstrates by building a Stonehenge-like arch using concrete forms that are about 1/10 the mass of the original.
What's sad to me is that the engineering solution is so comically simple, I want to go back to every Stonehenge story I've ever heard and get the names of the producers and their expert advisers, and ask them, wtf? You couldn't figure this out? This man uses small rocks, sand, water, and some savvy teeter-totter work to move not just large concrete blocks, but also a barn, fully intact. With two people? You have been telling us that no one since the creation of Stonehenge has been able to unravel this engineering mystery? If that's true, you guys have been overpaid since the beginning of time.
I'll lose no small measure of respect for engineers if this 'ingenious' approach is truly unprecedented.
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Congrat's, you're the first to get the point. If we all considered the most logical, obvious and simple solution, what would happen to all that delicious grant money?
Comment from Baghdaddy on March 19, 2007 6:56:01 PM PDT
That's pretty amazing, although I don't understand how the small-rock moving technique works when you don't have a giant flat concrete slab as your floor. I see the barn moving, but I have a hard time understanding how that worked: why don't the rocks compress into the ground?
Comment from EFH on March 20, 2007 9:08:27 AM PDT
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