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Taking Precise Measurements At Megalithic Puma Punku In Bolivia

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I have been to Tiwanaku. It raises a lot of questions and not a lot of good answers.

Stone/bronze hammers, slaves and oodles of time. Uh huh.
Frankly, I’m surprised they let Brien poke around that much. I’ve been told that at places like Machu Picchu and the pyramids, ~~official narrative gatekeepers~~ authorities don’t like it much when people start wandering off the beaten path with measuring tapes, squares and lasers.
I never tire of the mind blowing precision.

Conversation overheard about 1900 years ago:

Machu: “Hey, Pichu! Whatcha up to today?”

Pichu: “Oh, nothing much, really. Just rubbing some rocks together to make ’em flat. Same old same old. You?”

Machu: “Yeah, not much going on with me, either. Gods From The Stars asked me to help work on their flying thing, so I’m going to go give them a hand.”

Pichu: “Well, best of Tiwanaku luck with that! They’re never going to get it to fly again. We should never have shown them ayahuasca!”

Machu: “Struth, mate. They’re flying pretty good as it is! Hey — are you going to the sacrifice later?”

Pichu: “Nah, I’ll pass. It’s just not the same after we ran out of virgins.”

Machu: “Yeah. Gods From The Stars really messed that up.”

Rock cut with precision beyond anything available at the time to accomplish such work.
The Antikythera Mechanism follows in that same theme-technology out of sync. but comes up with some fascinating ideas about the device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWVA6TeUKYU

Vondamuffin says:

July 5, 2022 at 1:36 am

Clickspring on YouTube is your friend – the Antikythera Mechanism is entirely within the realm of Mediterranean tool and materials technology of the time. Search for and watch Clickspring’s video on the dividing plate that may have made all those gears possible – amazing capability and amazingly simple.

Contemporary writings mention other mechanical calculating devices. Lathes were apparently common enough that they could be mentioned by name in contemporary writing without further explanation. Why didn’t more mechanical calculators survive? Because bronze is expensive, valuable, and recyclable! When a device breaks, it gets scrapped. I suspect that there may be other examples deeply buried and forgotten in places like the Vatican Archives. No conspiracy theories here – I think other examples exist out there and their being thus far hidden is due to the thoroughly mundane reasons of time and forgetfulness.

As for stonework, precision flatness is not hard – rub three surfaces together and you’ll get flatness. From there, level and square aren’t too hard, even with primitive tools. Polishing to flatness or high gloss isn’t hard – it’s just time consuming.

I think that the climates of sites with examples of ancient precision – Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, and others – were very different in the past. They must have had an extreme surplus of food to allow the inhabitants to devote so much time to precision work. My guess is that the local climates were warmer, wetter, and more moderate and consistent.
1. pop says:
  
  July 5, 2022 at 4:43 pm
  
  These ruins are in many different places around the world.
  
  I liked the one on the Egyptian Pyramids as the Head of Egypt’s Archaeological department was asked about the amazing detailed and finished pottery, statuary etc.
  
  Her answer? A simple We don’t know.

Normal people: You either have the dates or the available tech wrong.
Idiots: It was aliens, demons or angels!!!
Erich Von Daniken has much to answer for.

Again and again we witness where cruder less sophisticated work is added to older more precise work so nothing to do with aliens, demons or angels. The ability to cut the stone quickly and precisely was lost somewhere along the way. Hell the Roman method for making proper cement was lost until it was rediscovered in the 19th century.
History shows us that civilization is easily lost when things start going south.