Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 6 2019 12:27am)
here is a video showing how the cutting and drilling would have been done. recreated just as you say no one has recreated them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeS5lrmyD74
okay i watched the videos
! that looks...very unconvincing
!
i like how happily they exclaimed "we managed to cut 15cm in a few days
!" that job was done by 2-3 people. so with practice, it would probably be possible to do 15cm in a day by 2 people, cause i mean...well those scientists dont really have the muscles of michael jordan
so thats about 1m per week for 2 people, so with like 1.5~2 mil blocks, that would be about 2 million weeks for 2 people. if you had lets say 50k workers, that would be a little less than 2 years. so that checks out easily no matter how you approximate it, so it doesnt bother me whatsoever!
what bothers me is the precision (or lack thereof). the result of their cutting was absolute trash honestly, and you cant really do it better by getting better workers
ive seen much better work, and done in basalt, which is hard af
the consistent thing were the vertical lines, i saw them everywhere and they suggest the stones were cut by a saw
but idk man, this was absolute trash quality compared to random basalt stones you can see in half the videos by brian foerster or someone who actually does that work. personally the looks of those basalt stones suggest some machine type of saw, something waaay more precise than those scientists managed to do