It was so true to my experiences in game stores that it was a little freaky.

Holey moley...I have no words.

Wouldn't this be a touch more appropriate?

Somehow, I got the impression that Egypt was a land with a lot of people and not that many trees. It seems weird to propose a solution that uses a lot of wood and not that many people. Yes, they could reuse those amazingly straight trunks a few times, but the wood is going to wear out, requiring more amazingly…

No no no, these are not spikes, they're pointy arms...

Wally Wallington laughs derisively at your "calculations":

I'm wondering. Could we build a new pyramid?

I figured they carried them like they carried their royalty:

The original NOVA ad for the Moai mystery needs a little punching up:

Nope! Not what happened! Also, you have renewed my love for Moai's. I forgot about them :)

With a quick bit of research I found that the average mean base of the great pyramid is around 230 meters with about 202 stones at the base, making each stone about 1.14 meters to at least one side making these blocks in the model significantly smaller.
http://www.egyptorigins.org/numberofstones…

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Because the Uighurs are a Turkic people.

This is how I move furniture.

What if they rolled it on to a long woven grass blanket until it achieved optimal rollability! (like a snowball) The grass may even be a byproduct of processing a harvest, would not waste large trees and upon reaching their destination the grass could be easily burned away. This grass casing could also be easily…

I guess they had a lot of time to get the process correctly, after all, time and the value of human life may had had a different meaning back then for the people on top and their engineers.

also, mechatronics? awesome!

I was thinking about that too. How many rolls do you think it would take before one of those logs split? I'm thinking less than a dozen. Maybe if they were using seasoned logs rather than raw they would get a few miles out of it, but I think small torsional forces on the log would tear it apart pretty quickly.

I prefer this less gross version, but yes.

Instead of using a traditional washing machine, fleets of robotic fish will clean your clothes in a water tank — without detergent. [...]Pacera would also employ an alkaline liquid jelly that splits and absorbs dirt molecules of fiber to sustainably make the fiber clean. What's more, the jelly will prevent…

Lewis Wolpert's The Unnatural Nature of Science makes (very generally) the point that a lot of scientific findings are counterintuitive, even though they come from investigations into what everyone knows.