cladking Wrote:
> I was speaking of specific equipment used to build
> with a geyser.

Oh, so we've recovered weapons, armor, tools, some wheels, and artwork
But every single evidence of geysers disappeared?

> Expecting this to still be there
> is just as absurd as expecting ramps to still lie
> against the pyramids if they had been used.

Such as the ramp that DOES lie against Ahmoses pyramid in Abydos?
Oh that's right; it's perfectly acceptable for you to reach ahead 1,000 years to coffin texts,
but unacceptable for any evidence that disagrees with you.

> I'm not suggesting they did. I believe they would
> have it there were a practical application but
> this either didn't exist or the specimens didn't
> survive.

Practical application, such as pulley wheel your imagined counterweights would have required to function?
And there is no evidence whatever they existed?
Color me "SHOCKED; not really..."

> If they used counterweights then there was a
> practical application for a pulley. This is an
> order of magnitude simpler than the wheel

You are SO wrong here it's not funny. All wheels had to support was the weight of <whatever> was placed on them. Pulleys had to support the weight PLUS the starting and stopping forces, which existed in orders of multiple times the force of simple weight.

The basic wheel existed long before the true work pulley.

The Big question, IF they existed why have we found no trace of them?

Jammer