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[–] [email protected] 179 points 9 months ago (50 children)

As a Stonemason, this shit always bothers me. Recent example was an article on stone henge. "Scientists still mystified as to how the stones were stood so that to caps were level!"

Mfr! Give me a straight piece of wood, a length of string and a rock, I will make you a basic level. Don't want to lift the stone in and out multiple times to adjust the level? Get logs and cut them to the same length as the upright stones. It's not fucking rocket surgery!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Trying to picture how you do this with those. Brain is stuck on hanging rock from wood with string which feels like I'm going the wrong way

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The rock and string, with help from gravity point down to the ground. If angle between the stick and string isn't 90°, then it's not level.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So I DID visualize it right, but forgot about angles

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Hey, it was (I assume) Monday. You can be forgiven for forgetting about angles on a Monday.

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