Could it Really be Done?

 I would like to pose a theory that I have been working on for a couple of years. I have always made a study,(unofficial, of course), of the Egyptian way of life. You know, the pyramids, mummies, whatever. The lives of the ancients. One thing I think the scientists have missed...the counter-weighted crane.

 

       I keep hearing scientists saying that they used ramps to haul up those large stones for the pyramids, but that they have never found proof of that theory. I have seen some of those ramps that they propose that the Egyptians might have used. No way, man. Some of those ramps would take far more manpower than they had at the time. I mean, come on, a ramp as big as the pyramid that they were building? Or, even worse, ramps that actually encircled the entire pyramid? Fuck that!

 

         How can they believe that the same people who figured out complex mathematical equations wouldn't know about the counter-weighted crane? It fits right in! They had to know about levers and fulcrums. There isn't anyway that they didn't know. They would have figured it out through the math that they already knew. It is as simple as this... you have a set amount of weight counter-balanced with a greater amount of weight, and a fulcrum between the two. When a downward force is applied to the greater weight, the smaller weight is lifted...plain and simple.

 

           Let's say that they never did figure that one out...just for the sake of argument. What about pulleys? Pulleys can multiply the force applied by many times. If they did build those time-wasting ramps, it only serves their best interests to use pulleys on them to drag the heavy stones. Or, what about this one...what about no pulleys, just large capstans on the tops of those same ramps? A capstan is simply a very large post that ropes are pulled around, thereby giving you a small amount of force on a load. Not much, but at least more than a straight pull.

 

           Forget all of that for a minute. Try this one on for size. How about the large capstan, but a large spool fits over it, with spokes on the outside, and men turning it, taking up the slack rope on the large spool, with a simple ratcheting mechanism to hold the load? I have never heard a single scientist come up with any of these theories. I am not that smart; believe me, I know! Isn't it strange that I could come up with these things, and ancient Egyptians couldn't? It sure beats the hell out of the theory that some fuckin' Aliens built the pyramids! Give me a holler about your ideas...hell, someone call MIT, I think I might just be Alumni material!!!!

 

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