September 02, 2010 03:30PM
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Jammer Wrote:
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> The scale of G1 would have meant "More,
> larger, wider, stronger..."
> (work crews, ramps, leverage items, ropes,
> whatever, etc)
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This doesn't work at all to my mind. You're suggesting that they made huge improvements in ropes, ramps, or crew size between Djosers and Khufu. This simply doesn't work. Ropes wouldn't have been breaking in the early years. They couldn't make ropes far lighter to allow thenm to lift dozens of times as much. There aren't huge advances that could be made in ramps either unless they could build a mile long suspension bridge. Work crews size is a function of GNP.
No. This just doesn't fit. The massive increase in lifting must be a function of something else. You can claim that it's a function of the resources they were willing to commit but not one single one of these is of a size that I would say isn't the biggest they could build with available resources.
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