The giant obelisk contains 36,491 blocks and weighs 90,854 tons. If chains are wrapped around the top as Sarah instructs none of the blocks will be pulled to the ground…
Another dumb, America-Hating Liberal Pinko, Commie professor. Mainly DUMB!.
SOME FACTS. A strong man can develop perhaps 500 newton meters of force on a rope… Thats three hundred seventy foot pounds of torque. At 45 degrees one man could develop .707 times that force. That’s 261 pounds of pull on a chain. Each block is about 3.5 feet on a side, 46 cubic feet each. Each block of the monument is about 5,000 pounds. There are about 247 blocks per row. It would take 4,711 men to pull one row of blocks. Here’s her drawing:
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