Dan Richards

We had metallurgy with trying different kinds of ball bearings and shit.

That's something way outside.

I mean, the 1700s, we're talking right at the cusp of them actually making structural steel.

This is the beginning of iron bridges and shit.

They were actually making good metallurgy then, and it still took trial and error to move this stone.

And that stone is basically the same size as the ones at Baalbeck, a tiny bit bigger.

But the same kind of issues where they would have had to have jacked that thing up, which would have took steel or hard, hard metal.

Basically, they had to have some highly advanced metalurgy for the time.

Not as good as we have now, but 1700s level of metalurgy.

That's what it would have taken.

I don't believe in ancient high technology in the regards that, generally speaking, when you start getting— Put this microphone back.

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Put it like a fist from your face.

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I'm not a believer in ancient high technology in the regards that I don't believe, like— Even ancient steam engines would be, like, pushing it.

When you start talking, like—

really advanced stuff, I tend to be, tend to look for other explanations.

I tend to look for, you know, stone was the premier building material for hominids for like millions of years, literally millions of years.