HOW TO CUT GRANITE AT SCALE Quite easily. I’m trained in sculpture so these thin

HOW TO CUT GRANITE AT SCALE
Quite easily. I’m trained in sculpture so these things are easily understood. They just take a lot of human time and effort. Even cutting the top of that stone is easy with oil, water, copper or copper-alloy wire or even chain (more easily repaird), ground aggregates, tar, a wheel, a bunch of men to manage each little bit of the process, and time. We do the same thing today in a tiny fraction of time with more advanced metals and machine power, but it’s still the same process.

4500 years later we’re doing the exact same thing:
https://t.co/RuXxhbxK3v
It’s just faster and takes fewer men to do the work (even if the same or more men if we include the manufacture of the cutting materials).

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