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Thread #107257   Message #2222369
Posted By: 282RA
25-Dec-07 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: How old is civilization?
Subject: RE: BS: How old is civilization?
All over the earth at one time, there were all those huge stone edifices that seemed to involve ritual and the heavens. People had the ability to cut and shape enormous stones and then stack them somehow and fit them so close together that a piece of paper cannot be fit between edgewise and they've stood for thousands of years without mortar to hold them together. The newer ones still function as well as they did when they were new. Others are so ancient that they no longer apply.

There seemed to be a global stone-working culture heavily into astronomy. They had techniques for cutting and moving enormous stones that we don't have today. They had to be experts at surveying land. Even so, how anyone could create something like the Sun Dagger is mind-boggling. Surveying itself requires mathematical knowledge not to mention employing a type of masonry that requires knowing how large to cut each stone and how to shape it. Many of the stones fit into the walls are not regularly shaped but cut and notched seemingly without pattern (often shaped in such a way that the center gravity should have caused the stone to split) and yet mesh tightly and perfectly with the surrounding stones where no two are cut alike and with nothing to hold them together and yet these walls still stand today come flood, severe sun-baking drought or earthquake. They were quite obviously built to last. How did they transport these enormous stones sometimes 200 miles or more then stack them to precision fit? Clearly, they had some kind of lifting techniques we lack today.

After all, we really don't know how Edward Leedskalnin built his Coral Castle down in sunny Florida. He appears to have carved and moved 1100 tons of coral rock by himself. A man just over 5 foot tall and weighing 100 lbs who charged a dime for admission appears to have built an incredible habitat and did it by himself as far as anyone knows and did it in no more than 28 years—driven by nothing more than his love for a girl in his home country who never saw nor visited it in her life. No one is sure how he fashioned a nine-ton gate that is balanced so perfectly that it will turn easily if pressed with a finger. Several of the sculptures at Coral Castle have astronomical significance as well. Incredibly, he not only designed and built it but after completing it he MOVED it to another location. Again, no one knows how. He was seen transporting some of the stones with a tractor but he was never seen loading or unloading the stones. No one in the area reported being hired by Leedskalnin to assist in rebuilding Coral Castle, no one saw any other workmen assisting him. He simply somehow reassembled it all over again. Did he somehow figure out something the rest of us have long forgotten and will we ever again rediscover it?