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An amazing Easter Island picture

nboy22

nboy22

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Not sure if this is a repost, but when I saw this my jaw dropped. To think that those people were able to move such massive stones so many years ago is mind-blowing. I even think this would be a bit difficult with the tech we have nowadays.

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They do (did) all sit on the ground. But they've been there a long time and some of them have become partially buried.
 
Austronesian culture has always impressed me. The ancestors of people of easter island started off in china and in a few thousand years had been to Africa, South America, and had established residence in Oceana, New Zealand, South East Asia, and Africa. Over a 1000 years before Columbus was born these people were trading with the natives of South America. While the white man thought the world was flat and never ventured to far from land, these people were crossing the pacific and indian oceans.
 
runzwithsizorz said:
Don't be so quick to criticize, there's many an ancient structure that baffle even the most learned among us. It is said that even today we could not replicate the great pyramid. It is also amazing to see things that are built today, such as buildings able to sway, were actually built thousands of years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVGDPUhln74
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We can't build the great pyramid today? BS. Look at the Burj Dubai tower in Dubai. fuck the pyramids, that thing is beast.
 
Why did they excavate it?
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Because natives always stash their gold and mystical artifacts at the base of such structures, duh...

While the white man thought the world was flat and never ventured to far from land
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The white man (Greeks, specifically) determined the Earth was round in the 3rd century BC, even calculated the circumference of the earth around the same time, was less than 100 miles off.
 
DCal430 said:
While the white man thought the world was flat and never ventured to far from land, these people were crossing the pacific and indian oceans.
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Where do you get brainwashed? Do you check yourself in, or do people kick down the door and force you?
 
Those things are cool and all, but the Easter Island people destroyed their environment with deforestation to build them. Their population went from around 15k to 2k, with terrible wars and cannibalism being endemic.
 
runzwithsizorz said:
Don't be so quick to criticize, there's many an ancient structure that baffle even the most learned among us. It is said that even today we could not replicate the great pyramid. It is also amazing to see things that are built today, such as buildings able to sway, were actually built thousands of years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVGDPUhln74
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this is why idiots like Von Daniken have followers.

first thing to do is to stop thinking of these monuments in modern terms like construction. You must look at it the way our ancient ancestors did. They used what was on hand and what their knowledge was capable of.

The great pyramids weren't built in a year or 2. They took decades or longer to build because of limited resources, weather, labour etc.

PS: you do realize that temple had a roof at one time, right?
 
if only they'd put that manpower towards developing an army and inventing gunpowder instead 😉

fwiw, I've got a perfect view of the under-construction Freedom Tower from my office. it seems like they're building 10 floors every day; I'm sure we could move some rocks a mile or two.
 
The best kept secret in ancient civilizations was the mastery of levitation. A group would concentrate on an object and then lift it with the power of their own thought. Now hold on a sec while I go fetch another beer. 😉
 
runzwithsizorz said:
Don't be so quick to criticize, there's many an ancient structure that baffle even the most learned among us. It is said that even today we could not replicate the great pyramid. It is also amazing to see things that are built today, such as buildings able to sway, were actually built thousands of years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVGDPUhln74
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You know it's a complete myth that we couldn't build the pyramids today, right? There's nothing baffling at all about them, or any other ancient structure I can think of.
 
Zedtom said:
The best kept secret in ancient civilizations was the mastery of levitation. A group would concentrate on an object and then lift it with the power of their own thought. Now hold on a sec while I go fetch another beer. 😉
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It's even easier today. I walk on the job site and say "get that beam in place", when I come back later it's done. I do have aliens helping as well.
 
Schadenfroh said:
Because natives always stash their gold and mystical artifacts at the base of such structures, duh...


The white man (Greeks, specifically) determined the Earth was round in the 3rd century BC, even calculated the circumference of the earth around the same time, was less than 100 miles off.
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While they may have knew the earth was round they didn't take their boats and sail accross the oceans like these people. Over a 1000 years before columbus was born these people had colonies in southern africa and where trading with south americans. All be it was by island hoping over hundreds years, they still did it.
 
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