RE: Life sized replica of noah's ark currently under construction
September 16, 2011 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2011 at 6:00 pm by Anomalocaris.)
If you look at my post 29, I broke down the labor force involved in building the great pyramid into what I consider to be reasonable divisions. By far the largest portion of the labor is involved in quarying and roughly shaping the stones. The manpower needed to actually move to the pyramid and up any ramp and set the stones is by comparison small.
So if you are short of labor or would rather invest some of your labor elsewhere, the easiest and most effective way to cut the labor involved in building the pyramids is to take short cuts are the quarry. Using smaller stones that much less carefully shaped can cut the labor force by half.
So it should be no surprise if the competition for labor investment intensify, the quality of the stones going into the pyramids, and thereby the structural quality of the pyramid, would be by far the most tempting and effective place to economize.
Hence pyramids that falls down because rougher shaped stones with poorly shaped contact surfaces crack much more easily under the weight of overburden, and are much less stable as structural elements whether cracked or whole.
So if you are short of labor or would rather invest some of your labor elsewhere, the easiest and most effective way to cut the labor involved in building the pyramids is to take short cuts are the quarry. Using smaller stones that much less carefully shaped can cut the labor force by half.
So it should be no surprise if the competition for labor investment intensify, the quality of the stones going into the pyramids, and thereby the structural quality of the pyramid, would be by far the most tempting and effective place to economize.
Hence pyramids that falls down because rougher shaped stones with poorly shaped contact surfaces crack much more easily under the weight of overburden, and are much less stable as structural elements whether cracked or whole.
