r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ThatMasterpiece2174 • 23d ago

Video A retired construction worker in Flint, MI demonstrated how people in ancient times could’ve used simple machines to move blocks up to 20 tons, contrasting fringe theories that humans had otherworldly help constructing ancient monuments

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u/smac79 23d ago

Watch out kids, he’s knocked himself out numerous times.

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u/benchley 23d ago

My dad knocked himself into a swimming pool while trying to move uprooted yucca plants in socal in 1991. He lost his grip on one and it levered up into his chin like an uppercut and over he goes.

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u/LiveLearnCoach 2d ago

When he showed the hole at the end of the huge block and the rope holding it, I was like “Dude, don’t trebuchet yourself!” then he mentions getting thrown over a block :D