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March 20, 2008 at 12:33 am

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 1

I have to admit, when I saw

Wally Wallington...(Thanks Curtis Curtington)

it crossed my mind that this was an early April Fools prank, but no, not at all. Very impressive indeed.

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Julie Breutzmann Hall of Fame Points: 3637 More actions · Answer 2

Fascinating. PBS could have used him in their "Secrets of the Dead" series.

K. Brian Kelley SSC Guru Points: 114552 More actions · Answer 3

Engineers are very much alike, whether they are in the traditional engineering fields or are "system engineers" and whether or not they have the title or not. Give 'em enough time and they'll typically figure out a way to do things others think are impossible with whatever tools and resources they have on hand. 🙂

K. Brian Kelley
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Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 4

share your knowledge with others. With the power of so many minds working on problems and sharing their accomplishments, who knows what we will accomplish?

Thanks - an inspiring message.. for not only technology but for all aspects of human endeavor .. conquering of disease, eliminating famine etc., etc.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

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Miles Neale SSChampion Points: 13147 More actions · Answer 5

Sometime back you asked us about sayings we though were interesting, great, or worthy. Someone added to the list "It is only impossible because I have not done it yet" That appears to be Wally's motto.

Great find and inspiration!

Miles...

Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734418 More actions · Answer 6

Glad you enjoyed it and both a few friends and my son have asked it we can do this. We may give it a try sometime!

Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 7

Aristotle and Archimedes would be proud (one of them would be).

Archimedes:

"Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I will Lift the World"

And Aristotle had his students expound on it (formalize that out).

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003851 More actions · Answer 8

"The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer." — Army Corp. of Engineers

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Loner SSC-Insane Points: 21279 More actions · Answer 9

I was there to see the rocks and I did not find it amazing. Maybe it was me.

First no on knew why those rocks were there, it was not a building, someone suggested maybe it was a place to worship. But they were a whole bunch of rocks. But the pyramid and the Great wall was built by people and with the technology at that time it was unbelievable how they could build such monument.

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 10

Loner (3/21/2008)
I was there to see the rocks and I did not find it amazing. Maybe it was me.
First no on knew why those rocks were there, it was not a building, someone suggested maybe it was a place to worship. But they were a whole bunch of rocks. But the pyramid and the Great wall was built by people and with the technology at that time it was unbelievable how they could build such monument.

Wally will figure it out, Loner.

This site http://www.britannia.com/history/h7.html states:

The giant sarsen stones (which form the outer circle), weigh as much as 50 tons each. To transport them from the Marlborough Downs, roughly 20 miles to the north, is a problem of even greater magnitude than that of moving the bluestones. Most of the way, the going is relatively easy, but at the steepest part of the route, at Redhorn Hill, modern work studies estimate that at least 600 men would have been needed just to get each stone past this obstacle.

Those stones are a lot bigger than they look from the road.

Cheers

ChrisM

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TravisDBA SSCoach Points: 15780 More actions · Answer 11

It helps if the aliens are helping you build aerial markers for them!:-D

"Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"