Puma Punku

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  1. darthdj31 City States Map Director

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    Spore. Nuff said.
    Although i dont know how exactly the prehistoric civs could manuever rock nearly as hard as diamond
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  2. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    So it does. Giorgio Tsoukalos said it was ten to fifteen thousand years old.
    And how do you suppose humans created these structures? I'm not trying to contradict you, just asking for some input.
  3. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    With basic tools and a lot of labor?
  4. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    But dat precision. How could they have gotten these massive stones to the mountain? It just doesn't add up.
  5. Melanthropist Well-Known Member

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    . . . :|
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  6. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    That isn't a typo.
  7. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    Stoneworking was an important practice back in the day. It would not have been difficult for a civilization of their size to properly cut the structure. As evidenced by the existence of this structure...
    Lots of labor. Same way the Egyptians and Incans and Mayans built anything... There's no need for aliens to be involved at all.
    Well, it does add up, but you just don't like the conclusion. It's infinitely more likely that it was built with the standard methods that ancient civilizations used to build their monuments, than that it was built by aliens.
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    Maybe just maybe pre-historic man could fly and lift objects of incredible wight.
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  9. General Mosh Citystates Founder!

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    Its always fun to think that aliens did it and come up with all kinds of crazy theories, but it was really probably an ancient race of men who worship the sun yet live at the center of the Earth.
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  10. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    Alright. Maybe it wasn't aliens. But how do humans carry 800+ ton stones ten miles up a mountain without logs or wheels? Did they just carry them? There are still so many questions.
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    I know, that's the problem.
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    Bottom line, anything can be moved with a massive amount of human laborers. Just ask the Egyptians.
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    But its so gay to think the logical way, its cooler to think that Aliens built it, slavery is so 2 centuries ago.
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  14. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    In that case...

    Puma Punka = Stalingrad Utopia
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    In 500 AD we didn't really know what the south americans were capable of. There were likely capable of making rope for instance, and I'm sure they could understand it was easier to pull up a slight incline like a man made ramp rather then just pulling it up a mountain.
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    Just because something would be hard to do for us, modern humans, doesn't mean that it was impossible for ancient people.
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    humans have no determination, I mean we can't build huge beautiful structures on pure labour without some extraterrestrial guidance!! great wall of China? Aliens.
  18. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    Not impossible, just insane and unimaginably (and I mean that) difficult.

    Well there are records of the construction of the great wall. Puma Punku is just kind of, there.
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  20. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    It's not only the scale, but also the precision!

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