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Date Posted: 21:37:02 09/20/08 Sat
Author: Jay
Subject: Re: Another way of looking at it.
In reply to: Owen 's message, "Re: Another way of looking at it." on 21:24:20 09/20/08 Sat

Hypothetical. Go build yourself a pyramid and get back to me.

Actually, it would be fine with me if you simply went out and got yourself 4 10 ton blocks, and dragged them together on a flat asphalt pad to the tolerance you state. I think you're double dipping. First, ignoring the tremendous amount of labor saving that petrochemicals provide, and secondly, spinning a very underestimated amount of labor that it might take to build such things as those pyramids. By and large, we have no damn idea how those were built, and they're poor evidence for your advocacy.

Maybe 100000 lbs of gravel delivered would be a more sensible and equitable, and measurable metric.

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