Re: Pyramid stone?

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:29:24 GMT, Philip Deitiker
<Donevenask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> says in
>news:7kidd1l2u0dr3id2bdl7hhj1vai8j09neb@xxxxxxx:
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>>>Concrete has a compression limit of 2500 PSI.
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>> That's on a 4" cube. It will take more on a larger slapb. In any
>> case, 2500 psi is a pretty cruddy concrete. Commercial strength
>> grades run to 5000 psi and can be even higher, depending on the
>> avaiable aggregate.
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>That is the compression strength of standard 90$ per yard concrete.
>>>How many beasts of burden? My basic calculation is force
>>>required to move the object on a flat grade + Sin[Grade
>>>Angle]*Mass*gravity.
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>> Wot? No friction?
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>Read what it said 'is the force required to move it on a flat grade'
>+ . . . . . .

You are right. I misread it.
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>>>> The ramp now requires building a structure that is hundreds if
>>>> not thousands of times the weight of the original stone and
>>>> you have to lift all that into place before you begin to move
>>>> the 70 big stones.
>>>
>>>Bologne. Aside from that you have to move stones miles to the
>>>pyramide, you only need to move sand feet to the ramp and small
>>>and easy to carry stones.
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>> --- snip ----
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>> I love the way that you never let the fact that you don't know
>> what you are talking about prevent you from writing at length on
>> a subject.
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>Typical evasive Stevens response. Your opinion on the matter amounts
>to what, see above, you can't even read.

I misread, and acknowledged that fact when it was pointed out, but you
have written several articles upon which I have pointed out errors and
problems, and you completely ignore the comments I have made.

I'm not a soils engineer but I do know more than a little of the
subject. It is apparent that you have been cobbling together a
pseudo-technical article on the basis of a laymen's rules of thumb.
You don't know the terminology, you don't even know the mechanics of
failure. Yet you are more than sufficiently brazen to tell Steve
Whittet that he is wrong when he correctly states a fundamental
definition.

I'm not being evasive. I'm merely avoiding entering into your
extraordinarily uninformed discussion on your terms. So far, on this
subject, you have been acting the bull*** artist trying to overwhelm
the opposition with the sheer mass of your words. I suppose that's one
way to build a ramp but it won't be strong enough to support a 70 ton
stone block. :-(




Eric Stevens

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