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[zoser]

Hasina, on 10 January 2013 - 09:18 PM, said:

No charm needed.

Use 1500-grain sandpaper to achieve a high luster finish on the stone. Or, use a piece of denim or leather dipped in rock polish, and apply it to the rock until a high luster develops.

This indicates, a word many of us have used to indicate that it's just so obvious, that sanding can achieve the same desired effect.

Oh my God and it was that easy all along.

Damn I just didn't see it.

Edited by zoser, 10 January 2013 - 09:21 PM.

[Hasina]

zoser, on 10 January 2013 - 09:19 PM, said:

Oh my God and it was that easy all along.

Damn I just didn't see it.

I didn't even have to fly to Proxima Centauri for advice.

[zoser]

Hasina, on 10 January 2013 - 09:18 PM, said:

No charm needed.


This indicates, a word many of us have used to indicate that it's just so obvious, that sanding can achieve the same desired effect.

And the fact that vitrification is a known result of high temperature doesn't indicate a slight flaw in the sandpaper argument?

[zoser]

zoser, on 10 January 2013 - 09:22 PM, said:

And the fact that vitrification is a known result of high temperature doesn't indicate a slight flaw in the sandpaper argument?

Well I guess your counter argument is as good and creative as any other I've seen in here I suppose.

[Hasina]

zoser, on 10 January 2013 - 09:22 PM, said:

And the fact that vitrification is a known result of high temperature doesn't indicate a slight flaw in the sandpaper argument?

It's possible I missed it but is there any chemical indication that vitrification happened?

[Harte]

zoser, on 10 January 2013 - 08:26 PM, said:

Maybe you need some engineering background or architectural knowledge to really appreciate how intricate and difficult this is to achieve:

Until you see this seeder, it's like trying to argue that an Austin 7 is more refined than a BMW.

As a mechanical engineer, formerly a registered PE, I say that Greek construction/architecture is light years ahead of anything anyone ever did in Peru.

Maybe you need your head examined, if you ever pull it out of there.

Harte

[zoser]

Hasina, on 10 January 2013 - 09:24 PM, said:

It's possible I missed it but is there any chemical indication that vitrification happened?

The most detailed analysis on the vitrification done so far.

Indicates strongly use of heat.

http://www.ancient-m...ges_of_peru.pdf

More heresy to the skeptics here.

They tried to burn it.

Edited by zoser, 10 January 2013 - 09:27 PM.

[zoser]

Harte, on 10 January 2013 - 09:25 PM, said:

As a mechanical engineer, formerly a registered PE, I say that Greek construction/architecture is light years ahead of anything anyone ever did in Peru.

Maybe you need your head examined, if you ever pull it out of there.

Harte

Never going to trust you to build a bridge.

Yet you could never convincingly explain in a hundred years how they achieved that one example of craftsmanship.

Edited by zoser, 10 January 2013 - 09:29 PM.

[Hasina]

zoser, on 10 January 2013 - 09:27 PM, said:

The most detailed analysis on the vitrification done so far.

Indicates strongly use of heat.

http://www.ancient-m...ges_of_peru.pdf

More heresy to the skeptics here.

They tried to burn it.

Now I wonder if sanding can create enough heat to create the same indications of vitrification.

[zoser]

Hasina, on 10 January 2013 - 09:29 PM, said:

Now I wonder if sanding can create enough heat to create the same indications of vitrification.

Try it.  Only one way.  Let me know when your arm has lost a third of it's skin.

[Hasina]

zoser, on 10 January 2013 - 09:30 PM, said:

Try it.  Only one way.  Let me know when your arm has lost a third of it's skin.

I glanced at a Wiki page about vitrified forts, Clarke tried to reproduce the same affect by piling stones in a bonefire, it wasn't perfect but he didn't have all the time in the world to perfect it.
Could a combination of heating stones and sanding and time create these stone markings?

[zoser]

Anyway off now.  See you all tomorrow.

[Quaentum]

zoser, on 10 January 2013 - 09:10 PM, said:

Just rhetoric Q mixed with a little frustration.

If this is not moulding then what is it?

I leave the rhetoric to you.  I don't post when I'm frustrated because it makes it difficult for me to get my point across.

Nice attempt to try to turn things around.  If I can't come up with what it was then you'll claim it must be molding.  A tactic worthy of Nopeda.  However, that's not how it works.  You have made the claim of molding so it is your responsibility to provide any evidence that supports that claim, whether it be a whole or partial mold, or reference to molding in any of the texts available.

You of course aren't obligated nor can you be forced to do so but lack of something to back it up will keep the claim as unevidenced/unsupported belief.

Edited by Quaentum, 10 January 2013 - 09:36 PM.

[zoser]

Hasina, on 10 January 2013 - 09:32 PM, said:

I glanced at a Wiki page about vitrified forts, Clarke tried to reproduce the same affect by piling stones in a bonefire, it wasn't perfect but he didn't have all the time in the world to perfect it.
Could a combination of heating stones and sanding and time create these stone markings?

No

Here's the killer to that theory:




Unless someone can find a way of building a fire inside a small diameter hole:

[Oniomancer]

zoser, on 10 January 2013 - 09:13 PM, said:

Hardly going to compete with the Cuzco wall Mr O!  Austin 7 versus BMW.

You am right, it am all uglee and mishapun!