https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_spheres_of_Costa_Rica
"The spheres range in size from a few centimetres to over 2 metres (6.6 ft) in diameter, and weigh up to 15 tons.[4] Most are sculpted from gabbro,[4] the coarse-grained equivalent of basalt. There are a dozen or so made from shell-rich limestone, and another dozen made from a sandstone."
Basalt is paramagnetic and when in contact with the earth resonance makes biphotons in the weak uv range, which is good for people's mitochondria and makes plants grow better. This is like the Moai at easter island and I suspect the bluestones at Stonehenge.
I also suspect gabbro being a type of basalt does this too and these things were found buried in the soil where people were farming . Here we have limestone with inclusions piezoelectric calcite so that might explain the use of that. Sandstone possibly for silica? There is more stuff to work out but this idea might explain why they made them .
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Basalt is incredibly hard & sense.
I can't even imagine sculpting it into a sphere.
Yeah definitely not an easy task, not quite as daunting as some of the Egyptian artefacts which are hard on the Mohs scale funny shaped and have extremely high tolerances for accuracy.
I feel as though much ancient knowledge for how to work with rock has been lost/hidden.
I'm struggling with the task of simply moving the rocks that have been dumped of my hill by previous owners.
What type of rock is it? You can make some cool stuff with the right rocks 🙂
Just remember you don't have a rock dumping problem you have a Japanese garden deficiency 😁
This is awesome!
Makes me want to play around with some molten natron.
Working with charcoal technology is something special for me. I did a blacksmithing course a few years ago & the guy's charcoal was contaminated with sand. You occasionally had to knock out the glass lumps that forned at the bottom of the forge.
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Definitely explains a lot!
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I mentioned his work briefly at the end of Illegitimate Scholar episode 074.
I'd like to use his recipes to make some kind of "Hawks Nest" megalith up somewhere high up in the Rockies :)
I figure I'll do the Hawks Nest megalith to mark the location of the mountain bunker library.
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I suggested to Foti that he take those copper Bitcoins and embed them in the "donut hole" of some mini Rai stones that he makes with his method.
I know the real Rai stones are limestone but I don't know if his methods work with limestone or not.
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