Hardness of artificial limestone made from wood ash lye - after a week. Time was on our ancestors’ side!
I went back to full caveman ode like a month ago. I stopped using any source material that is a 21st century industrial product.
Purity kills! 🤣
Or to put it in other words: contaminations ftw!
The right kind of contamination of course. Like the particles you can’t easily get rid of from wood ash lye. Just look at the color! Mmmmmm!
Yes-yes, cracks, I can see them. I lost the top of the pyramid too. Mostly because the goo couldn’t shrink in the mold smoothly.
But! BUT!
Just listen to the sound of these things now!
And the good news is: this will be harder and harder and then, harder each and every day as the calcite crystallization continues.
Is this THE solution for artificial limestone? I’m not that brave anymore to tell a big yes. It’s certainly a step in the right direction, let’s call this the v2 version.
v2 is when purified 21st century materials are not used anymore.
@GirlMia9079 I accidentally shut my cat up in my car overnight.
He shredded the interior next to the windows.
Cat'
Cats really don't like being locked up!
One interesting feature of Teotihuacán I had never seen before yesterday are these megalithic blocks scattered behind the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl (on the North side). Thanks again to Marco Vigato for showing us the path around to see these little known, yet important stones! Plus, there were a few smaller pyramids on the back side as well. They are mostly andesite and basalt blocks used on the outer facade originally, though we may never know exactly where they once fit into place. Many of them are carved plumed serpent heads or stylized images of Tlaloc, the rain god, much like the ones seen on the opposing, southern side. There is always more to discover at the massive site of Teotihuacan, or as I call it, ‘the Giza of Mexico’!
@wattw_sol@derek__olson One of the largest of the spheres is located in Golfito. It's as tall as a man.
I've seen it and touched it. It seems to be a very hard brown granite.
That which is round can be no rounder.
That old stone shelter at your favorite state park is not just scenery.
A 19-year-old may have built it during the Depression, slept in a camp nearby, kept five dollars, mailed the rest home, and left behind better stonework than half the monuments with names on them.
A CCC 🧵
@forallcurious Isaiah 24 explains it all
https://t.co/90zaIqxVgz
And further:
"...whoso should possess this land of promise, from that time henceforth and forever, should serve the true and only God, or they should be swept off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them."
Federal prosecutors just charged an NIH virologist with smuggling biological materials into the United States.
His name is Vincent Munster. He's not a minor scientist. He runs the Virus Ecology Section at one of the government's premier BSL-4 labs.
This is bigger than a customs charge. Thread 🧵
@4gottnHistory It's Mayan. Hugh harleston proved this years ago.
Everyone should read Hugh Harleston.
Teotihuacan was a University.
Where men became informed about the God.