Luke Caverns

i had a i had a marine engineer who came on a trip with me one time and as a gift he made me this magnificent uh excel chart that that had formulas in it and i could say okay if my raft is made out of this local wood and it's 50 foot wide how much tonnage can it hold before it sinks right and And we this this formula they made me I was able to plug in.

i had a i had a marine engineer who came on a trip with me one time and as a gift he made me this magnificent uh excel chart that that had formulas in it and i could say okay if my raft is made out of this local wood and it's 50 foot wide how much tonnage can it hold before it sinks right and And we this this formula they made me I was able to plug in.

i had a i had a marine engineer who came on a trip with me one time and as a gift he made me this magnificent uh excel chart that that had formulas in it and i could say okay if my raft is made out of this local wood and it's 50 foot wide how much tonnage can it hold before it sinks right and And we this this formula they made me I was able to plug in.

I couldn't get anything higher than really three tons not to sink a raft that was as much as 100 feet across. And there are places bows in the river where that would just wedge.

I couldn't get anything higher than really three tons not to sink a raft that was as much as 100 feet across. And there are places bows in the river where that would just wedge.

I couldn't get anything higher than really three tons not to sink a raft that was as much as 100 feet across. And there are places bows in the river where that would just wedge.

so i you know there you can't build a raft big enough to not sink like there's a perfect example of this old theory see that thing that the one that they they show displayed there oh there's the head in the background those are like 15 25 tons there's no way and i had a nautical engineer Do the math for me. That would sink like a rock. Now, he had a really cool alternative hypothesis.

so i you know there you can't build a raft big enough to not sink like there's a perfect example of this old theory see that thing that the one that they they show displayed there oh there's the head in the background those are like 15 25 tons there's no way and i had a nautical engineer Do the math for me. That would sink like a rock. Now, he had a really cool alternative hypothesis.

so i you know there you can't build a raft big enough to not sink like there's a perfect example of this old theory see that thing that the one that they they show displayed there oh there's the head in the background those are like 15 25 tons there's no way and i had a nautical engineer Do the math for me. That would sink like a rock. Now, he had a really cool alternative hypothesis.

He said, let's use the principles of Archimedes and buoyancy. And instead of trying to make a flat thing that got sunk, what if you put a bunch of logs around it that were vertical? And so like just painted a fence around it and it would act like a bobber.

He said, let's use the principles of Archimedes and buoyancy. And instead of trying to make a flat thing that got sunk, what if you put a bunch of logs around it that were vertical? And so like just painted a fence around it and it would act like a bobber.

He said, let's use the principles of Archimedes and buoyancy. And instead of trying to make a flat thing that got sunk, what if you put a bunch of logs around it that were vertical? And so like just painted a fence around it and it would act like a bobber.

If all of the logs weren't flat horizontal, but they were vertical, the water displacement won't allow you to put a stick straight down in the water like that without it floating. It's more resistant. So he had this idea that like. Maybe they were like bobbers. They'd just cover them in vertical thick logs and they could float them down the river like that. And it would be a much tighter radius.

If all of the logs weren't flat horizontal, but they were vertical, the water displacement won't allow you to put a stick straight down in the water like that without it floating. It's more resistant. So he had this idea that like. Maybe they were like bobbers. They'd just cover them in vertical thick logs and they could float them down the river like that. And it would be a much tighter radius.

If all of the logs weren't flat horizontal, but they were vertical, the water displacement won't allow you to put a stick straight down in the water like that without it floating. It's more resistant. So he had this idea that like. Maybe they were like bobbers. They'd just cover them in vertical thick logs and they could float them down the river like that. And it would be a much tighter radius.

Now that's also totally unproven. As unproven as these pretty pictures are right here.

Now that's also totally unproven. As unproven as these pretty pictures are right here.

Now that's also totally unproven. As unproven as these pretty pictures are right here.

Yeah, kind of just adding on to that. So what he was saying about that formula where he could plug in a theoretical weight of an Olmec head and he really couldn't get... You know, if you put a three-ton Olmec head on a raft that would wedge going down the river system, you know, then it would still sink the raft. Well, the smallest head is five tons. The largest head is the La Cobada head.

Yeah, kind of just adding on to that. So what he was saying about that formula where he could plug in a theoretical weight of an Olmec head and he really couldn't get... You know, if you put a three-ton Olmec head on a raft that would wedge going down the river system, you know, then it would still sink the raft. Well, the smallest head is five tons. The largest head is the La Cobada head.