Ben van Kerkwyk
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's some of the most precise like work in granite in single piece.
Again, it's one of those things where you can't make a single mistake.
And, I mean, this is an imitation.
Like, this is a later attempt to replicate it.
Yeah, look at that cow patty hammer, whatever the one, the two in the middle there, yeah.
So this is, and you literally, it reflects, I mean, the acoustics in there are incredible, but this is granite and it's been polished to this mirror finish, and then it's also been measured for flatness and geometry, and it's insanely accurate.
There's been a whole series of documentaries done.
You can see the mirror finish in it.
There's nothing else quite like this anywhere.
It's like giant stone boxes.
Look at the size of that one.
Carved into a mountain.
Carved into a granite outcrop in a mountain, exactly.
There's seven or eight of them.
They're all in the same area.
Really hard to get to.