Best Dog-Gone Motel In America

[LLogann]

QFT                           Personally, I could lift a sea going vessel with my bare hand(notice not plural)..............  (with some rope and a pulley system)  

Uhmm,....actually, it has been worked out on how large stones could be moved and placed with great accuracy.  One man demonstrated it by building a barn using stones than weighed 50,000 pounds each.  He moved them and placed them by himself.

Another group has successfully built a copy of Stonehenge, using only the materials available when the original was built.

There are a number of engineering solutions to answer how these things were accomplished.  It just makes for better television when it can be presented as a great mystery.

But most of our "friends" here prob want to blame the aliens.

[Tupac]

I can pick up my boat without ANY pulley system, but it's a sunfish sailboat that weighs less than I do.

[Dichotomy]

'blame'? nope...

Willing to listen to points of view that I haven't considered in the past? yep.

The true mark of intellectual honesty is not only the acceptance, but the solicitation of, differing points of view.  

Thus I don't make a judgment on anything until I have absolute, 100 percent, verifiable proof that the thesis is valid.  

I could delve deeper into the conversation but, frankly, I'm here to have fun and I've had waaaayyyy too many philosophical discussions both in life and on the web to even begin to bother with them anymore.  Everybody believes what they believe and attempting to move them off of that position is a task I'm not willing to undertake.  I will watch and chuckle when people attempt to do it to each other though.  

*slaps clown nose and floppy shoes back on and heads to another thread*

[LLogann]

Wiseguy.....  

I can pick up my boat without ANY pulley system, but it's a sunfish sailboat that weighs less than I do.

 As an FYI piece....  It's an Archimedes reference, who did take a galley out of the water simply by using pulleys and his arm.  

[Dichotomy]

and without the internet for 'inspiration'

[BrownBaron]

Wiseguy..... 
 As an FYI piece....  It's an Archimedes reference, who did take a galley out of the water simply by using pulleys and his arm. 

Huh. I've always heard that he pulled a heavily laden galley in to dock (horizontal as opposed to vertical movement, as your version suggests) using a fairly complex system of 2nd class (movable) pulleys. After all, it would be kind of hard to suspend a structure above the ship from which you then wish to suspend the full weight of said craft. At least. if you wish to attain any degree of stability.

[LLogann]

Without thinking too hard, I believe you reiterated what I just said, no?

Huh. I've always heard that he pulled a heavily laden galley in to dock using a fairly complex system of 2nd class (movable) pulleys. After all, it would be kind of hard to suspend a structure from which you then wish to suspend the full weight of this war ship from with any degree of stability.

[fbWldcat]

How were the Pyramids created with a maximum 6" difference on each corner (Max ammount they were off was by 6")? Aliens, duh. Slaves couldn't do all that stuff. 
And then the Mayan and Aztec drawings of flying contraptions (big birds).

Hehe

[BrownBaron]

Without thinking too hard, I believe you reiterated what I just said, no?

Yes, and no. You say he lifted a galley out of the water it floated upon, if I unserstand correctly, while I have always heard that he pulled the ship in to dock. In this version, he was pulling the boat horizontaly, rather than vertically.

This:



as opposed to this:

[EskimoJoe]

And to think this thread started off on motels 

[Dichotomy]

ya we veered off about 270 degrees didn't we?

The Omni at Tucson National is the finest hotel I've ever stayed at.  I'd like to go spend a couple of days there and go to the airplane graveyard someday. 

[BrownBaron]

ya we veered off about 270 degrees didn't we?

The Omni at Tucson National is the finest hotel I've ever stayed at.  I'd like to go spend a couple of days there and go to the airplane graveyard someday. 

[/hijack]

The Hilton at Cabo San Lucas is real nice, if you can get past the 110% humidity and 100+ temperature 'till the sun goes down.   

[Dichotomy]

Quick story about the Omni.

When I was doing the event coordinating thing our travel agent completely !$#@$!'d me off the week prior to staying at the Omni.  She knew she screwed up and, when the President of the company bailed for whatever reason, she flopped me over to one of the (whatever it's called it was his reservation) little 'duplex' type 'rooms'.  It was soooo kicka... I was there for five days, sitting right next to one of the greens, away from the main hotel.

Needless to say I forgave her so long as I kept getting the good rooms