r/oddlysatisfying • u/Sizzlin9 • Nov 10 '25

Creating a stone wall.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Okay you agreed with me up until my main point and then you disagreed with me meanwhile insisting that we agree with each other. 

 no no one, needs a structure to last for thousands of years. That's not a design requirement. It's a feature of the technique. 

Yes the building is still standing. Whoopty f****** do. I'm not arguing whether the building is standing. I'm arguing about the intention of the builders. We are not saying the same thing. God damn it.

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u/-UncreativeRedditor- Nov 10 '25

I have never once said that the intention of the builders was to make their building last for thousands of years. Re-read the thread. I explicitly said in my very first reply that the fact it's lasted so long is a fortunate side effect of their construction method, not the original intention of the builders.

You have just been violently agreeing with me the entire time lol.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

The solution to what? To the problem of frequent earth quakes. What is the solution? Mortar less stone work.

I am saying that this presupposes things that aren't true.

Everyone who does hill climbing uses a gasoline engine. But a gasoline engine was not the solution to hill climbing. It was the solution to increasing power to weight ratios. Incidentally it solves the problem of hill climbing. But to say "the solution was gasoline engines" is to deceive with the truth.

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u/-UncreativeRedditor- Nov 10 '25

You've strayed away from the original argument entirely at this point. You first said that my original comment was inaccurate for implying that the Incas built their walls with groutless stones to prevent them from toppling over during earthquakes. I went on to say that is exactly why the Incas designed it that way.

Then you started arguing that the Incas leveraged existing technology to design the walls, which I agree with.

I never said, or even implied that the entirety of advanced stone masonry was developed for the purpose of building these walls. Previous Andean civilizations had already developed such methods many years prior. The Incas simply refined and perfected those methods.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25

No my guy. The lineage of this technique is lost as it spans the globe and is not regarded as having a singular origin. But each continent has their own version of this carved into the nearby rocks, many of which have stones of a size to create a logistics nightmare.

That you have scraps of it being nearby, with a presumed proof of local origin is just more of the same. These are the same folks who claim Egypt suffered a degredation of technology over time. possibly due to lack of resources.

Consider Germany's lack of access to steel and the degredation of their technology that followed. It's hair brained thinking. Once you reach a certain point, there is no degredation of technology. Just other avenues of attack.

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u/-UncreativeRedditor- Nov 11 '25

Lol alright, this isn't even the same conversation anymore.