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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 00:51:55 2019 No.10938998 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>10939033 >>10939223 >>10939339 >>10939381 >>10942114

Was there ever a scientific explanation for how Coral Castle was built?

I'm seriously not trying to peddle /x/-tier shit. But how this was built defies possibility to me.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 01:05:32 No.10939033 Report

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>>10938998
First you find some coral rocks and then you build a castle out of them.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 01:10:47 No.10939049 Report

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>it was aliens

happy?

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 01:41:42 No.10939131 Report

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This is all just my personal schizo speculation but:
He claimed to have learned the secrets of the Egyptian pyramid builders, and a friend of his said it had something to do with him "singing" to the rocks. It was likely a harmonic resonant/sonic related technology. They used sonic drilling to cut the slabs, then pumped sound into the stones so they'd vibrate, and while they're vibrating they can be moved around very easily. It's similar to how bristle bots are able to move themselves, except instead of using a motor to create vibration you use sound and tune into a specific resonant frequency.

Apparently this is also the secret of the Freemasons, which pissed them off pretty well and they sent some of their goons who also happened to work in the CIA to beat him to within an inch of his life. After that he moved to a new location.

t.schizo

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 01:48:41 No.10939154 Report

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here's a good pic. Just try and figure out how this slab was cut

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 01:50:44 No.10939158 Report

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Coral is 1000x lighter than stone

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 02:11:07 No.10939203 Report

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>>10939154
That's not coral rock.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 02:19:53 No.10939223 Report

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>>10939154
>>10938998
with saws and chisels

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 02:21:29 No.10939226 Report

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<------ /x/

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 02:23:41 No.10939232 Report

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>>10939203
I thought this might turn into ITT: megaliths general thread

sorry, my bad

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 02:27:40 No.10939243 Report

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>>10939232
more of a /his/ topic if you want to talk about the actual architecture. if you want to talk about how the blocks were cut, the answer is the same for every single megalithic site on earth is the same: with saws, chisels, broaches, and files. if you want to talk about supernatural explanations or undiscovered """physics""", >>>/x/

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 02:28:54 No.10939248 Report

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>>10939232
more of a /his/ topic if you want to talk about the actual architecture. if you want to talk about how the blocks were cut, the answer for every single megalithic site on earth is the same: with saws, chisels, broaches, and files. if you want to talk about supernatural explanations or undiscovered """physics""", >>>/x/

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 02:47:09 No.10939296 Report

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>>10939248
there were no cut marks on the coral blocks, nor were there any at the site he quarried them from. There were also no fragments of stone left in the place he quarried from. I'm not saying IT MUST BE ALIENS. All I'm going to say is the evidence doesn't point to saws, chisels, broaches, and files. It defies explanation, which is the point of the thread and why I cited other similar examples of megaliths that defy explanation.

>>10939223
look very carefully, how did they make a perfectly square shaped hole, then make the cut on the back side and lift it out of the mountain? It's a damn mystery.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 02:56:25 No.10939322 Report

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>>10939296
>i dont understand how they could have possibly used those tools, despite myself having no experience with stonecutting

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:05:48 No.10939335 Report

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>>10939296
>Leedskalnin himself said that that he did it using hard work and the principles of leverage. The tools he used to quarry the rock are on display at the Coral Castle, and several old photos depict the large tripods, pulleys, and winches he used to move the blocks. Though the quarried stone slabs are large, they are actually lighter than they appear because the rock is porous.
>"Back in the days when Ed started carving out his original stones," Irwin writes, "his was a generation who knew accomplishments by the sweat of the brow. It wasn't mysticism but hard work, this is how Ed really accomplished the massive project...."
https://www.livescience.com/41075-coral-castle.html

Basically, you are a fucking idiot

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:09:21 No.10939339 Report

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>>10938998
>http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread672363/pg1
He used simple machines: pulleys, levers, inclined planes

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:09:28 No.10939340 Report

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>>10939296

Dude, I was like the skeptic you are replying to. It took me a long time to come around to accepting the fact that it is indeed a mystery. The difference was I was willing to keep an open mind.

The trouble is this: The moment you point out that there is no rational explanation to explain the cuts and constructions of those artifacts, you often get accused of being /x/ category. I think this partially because there are a lot of wannabe scientists who just lack intellectual honesty, but also partially because there are indeed a lot of fruitcakes who make unsubstantiated comments and who immediately jump to some retarded "It wuz aliens!" conclusion, thus muddying the waters for anyone trying to conduct an impartial scientific discussion on the topic.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:12:01 No.10939346 Report

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>>10939340
>The moment you point out that there is no rational explanation
Except I just offered one. Read >>10939335

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:12:43 No.10939347 Report

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>>10939296
We've already shown he used simple machines to assemble the castle; he probably used similarly pedestrian (though perhaps non-obvious to most people) methods to cut and shape the blocks.
Coral BTW is not difficult to cut.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:13:48 No.10939349 Report

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>>10939347
Not coral
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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:16:13 No.10939352 Report

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>>10939349
>With no outside assistance or large machinery Ed single-handedly built the Coral Castle, carving and sculpting over 1,100 tons of coral rock
https://coralcastle.com/whos-ed/
>The structure comprises numerous megalithic stones, mostly limestone formed from coral, each weighing several tons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

Actually, it is made of coral you fucking retard.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:17:07 No.10939353 Report

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>>10939346

My bad I was responding in relation to

>>10939232

rather than the coral castle, which as you have pointed out, does have a sensible and indeed obvious explanation.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:18:15 No.10939355 Report

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>>10939353
And so do the pyramids. Egyptians cut limestone (which again, is not very hard) with copper saws and chisels.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:22:22 No.10939358 Report

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>>10939352
Though not really a castle — and not really made of coral — it is nonetheless an amazing achievement. More than 1,000 tons of the sedimentary rock (oolite limestone) was quarried and sculpted into a variety of shapes, including slab walls, tables, chairs, a crescent moon, a water fountain and a sundiaL

Limestone is quorl

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:27:16 No.10939362 Report

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>>10939131
Interesting.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:27:24 No.10939364 Report

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It’s not so impressive once you realize it took him almost 30 years to build it. Not sure why this vital fact is always omitted when it’s presented as “too much for one man”

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:28:37 No.10939367 Report

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>>10939358
>oolite limeston
...which he sourced from coral

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:39:34 No.10939381 Report

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>>10938998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:41:32 No.10939383 Report

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>>10939154
slaves and suffering

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 16:13:11 No.10940500 Report

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>>10939355
And, interestingly enough, they also cut granite with copper tools. They'd cover the granite blocks with sand so the bits of quartz could do the actual cutting, since copper can't cut granite. Ancient people were smarter than we give them credit for.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 17:20:02 No.10940630 Report

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>>10939223
If you go to coral castle irl you can see the obvious chisel marks on some of the stones. If I can find a pic of it I'll reply.

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2019 17:26:55 No.10940647 Report

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>>10939223
>>10940630
Pic related
>>10939296
>there were no cut marks on the coral blocks
Look at pic related. This is obvious evidence of having used human tools. He was a highly talented mason who used creative methods that he told to nobody.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Sep 2019 03:24:10 No.10942114 Report

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>>10938998
it was in all likelihood put together in a way similar to how the guy in this video does it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs

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