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PufPuf23

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6. Ten tons is 20,000 lbs, largest bust size cited.

Reply to MerryBlooms (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:52 PM

Feb 2016

Ancient people, mostly in the Middle East and Central and South America, quarried and moved stone megaliths between 200 and 1000 tons, sometimes then set in place with amazing precision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_monoliths_in_the_world

I am not suggesting aliens.

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