Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic 

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Dude we can all see strings

Grace Nguyen I can't see the strings... Is this a conspiracy?

@@nyokopearl7431 bruh, you had to ruin didn't you?

It's a concrete replica I'm afraid but emotional nonetheless.

Wout V.M. Well if @NationalGeographic did at least elementary reseach, they would know, that in 1981 mr. Pavel Pavel, archaeologist from Czech Republic, succesfully walked the 20 ton replika already. Few years later Thor Heyerdal invited Pavel to the Easter Islands to walk originals and did it with 16 people only...dissapointed by NG here

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@@MarkkuCZ you tell em' Mark! Very Admirable

Moai also have arms and this one didnt

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@@osparav you ruined everything!

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*moai (Yes, I know the emoji is called moyai, but that’s actually because it was originally based on the ‘moyai’, a statue from Japan modelled after the moai. It just later came to represent the easter island moai.)

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+foxfire1112 LOL! good one! ;-)

They are showing how people may have moved these boulders by using ropes.

@@florichahal7668 duh

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@@stefanandrejevic2570 videoshop it then.. 😒😒

yes.. and this is what they meant when they said the statues "walked"

@@fela001 Yeah, it's cool. Always fun when we rediscover things and figure things out.

Indeed, and that's also why every previous theory failed in the eyes of scientists

The native people used this thing called a metaphor, I don’t think you’ve heard of it before.

@@doubleoof7907 I think it was a translation issue; the language barrier might have translated 'They were walked" into "They walked" because of the nuances of the language.

No need to imagine it, put the video in 2x speed

There's a clip which they build a frame attached to the statue like a walking stick, and the statue just stroll downhill by itself. Pretty erie I would say

@@danduong1445 Ooh, where can I find that?

That's insane bro. What do you make of the recemt fires?

Tharaka Devinda Exactly. Most these comments are being made by people who obviously have never worked in heavy construction. Things that initially appear impossible are made to happen on a regular basis. It's all in just knowing how.

dont some of these things weigh twice the weight of a battle tank? without tracks, tanks dig into the ground. how much more when its muddy and the statue being moved has such a small base area and tall height. youd have so much ground pressure concentrated on a small area(while moving!). even modern obelisks(stationary) need to spread their weight around their base for stability. moving them like this across soil would be very inefficient. some moai statues are made of volcanic tuff. volcanic tuff isnt hard. wont sand and rock cause too much wear on the base? cracks could form too depending on the material. the statues, when stationary dont dig into the ground, but what if theyre made to "walk" like this? assuming it might take weeks or much longer to move them, wont rain make this phenomenally difficult to pull off? i think computer simulations, and then an accurate real life attempt should be undertaken. getting the budget for this would be difficult though..

At USA is best: this video shows a real life attempt to move them. The attempt works!

@@florichahal7668 lol

@@prettypants4824 haha. It died. (I killed it) actually it tried to kill me first with a broken support. Whether that was because i don't take it for walks more often, we'd never know

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I believe you. Only difference is that ancient peoples was not having the same tools as the now-days peoples... But they got the same brain!

Stary kometntarz xD

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It's interesting, but what happens if you make a mistake and it's face down in the dirt? How do you go about picking it back up to continue? I've had this happen with something as simple as heavy stones in a wheelbarrow, as long as you keep the balance it works great, but as soon as it's toppled (like hitting a rock, or an indentation you didn't expect), you're in a world of hurt.

@@sgartner I heard there waere statue just oin the ground,likely fallen.

Precisely. I visited Easter Island over 20 years ago. The original, oldest, statues were actually quite small. As I recall, about the height of a normal person. What I was told by the island's historical guides at the time was that over time the islanders tried to outdo previous efforts and the statues became larger and larger. I'm not an expert, in any way, but I can believe that this may possibly have been a transitory method for moving them as they reached a certain size and weight. However, as you say, the last and largest of them couldn't possibly have been "walked". I saw the last, unfinished, statue still in the quarry. It would have been 69 feet tall and weighed about 270 tons. I very much doubt the islanders would have intended to "walk" that anywhere. I lost faith in National Geographic when they had to retract their fake story on dying polar bear populations. This is interesting if presented as just one possible method, but I don't think it's good science to make the whole story fit your theory.

@General Fukori what you're referring to are the surface only statues with no buried bodies. There are ones with hidden bodies. If you google, you'll see in the photos that the height is close to that of 6 men. So they are about 11-13m high. Nat Geo solved a tiny puzzle that is probably irrelevant.

Waduh cringe

Watching a docu on this right now. One scientist suggests that as they developed the statues over the generations the later ones are designed more for this purpose than the early ones which were quite random in shape. The later ones all have a bowling pin figure and a decent center of gravity for walking these giant things. Also many generations of practice would make it an easier task I guess.

Init! Seeing as Easter Island is basically a volcano 🙄

Also, they weighed up to 80 tons opposed to the 5 tons in this test

Kearnu Phoenix 75 metric tons is the largest that was erected

Glassbreaker well the moai or statues range from 6 feet to 30 feet in height (not including their pukao), fully excavated. So yes the natives of Easter Island DID transport moai larger than the one here, but their method of transporting would not have changed. It would have just taken more people to move it.

Jacob Reese yup. Only 150,000 pounds, not 10,000.

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Yeah yeah, aliens, they like stones, smart civilization.

irishelk The quarry isn't at the top of a mountain.

Is it just me or does that sound profoundly wise? haha no course not, it comes from within ! hahaha

Stephanie Mitchell Rapanui oral history dictates that the statues walked. That's why they tested this, as a theory, so as you can now see, walking is a possible way of getting a giant head to move.

naturegirl92584 All myth originated as "oral history," including ancient Hellenic religions and Christianity, which was spoken for hundreds of years before being documented. Just because a myth says "it walked," doesn't mean it did... It means they personified the statues as living, walking gods, like humanity has always liked to do. Come on now. What I mentioned above if much more practical in the reality of moving such massive hunks of rock.

+Stephanie Mitchell I agree with you, the official version is ingenious but to risky and difficult to perform for long distances. Maybe they also take advantage of the waterflows to slide them easily over the floor.

+Stephanie Mitchell If it was easy to do, it would not have been interesting. How do you think cathedrals were built ?

+El Guiñolo yet they didn't bring every single block on man's back to the top of those cathedrals wich would have been way more challenging as using cranes (might not be the correct word for the medieval version of it sorry) don't you think?

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more stone = more rope + more people, so yes it does.

DID YOU SEE HOW TALL IT WAS? DO YOU KNOW THE LANDSCAPE? YOU KNOW HOW HEAVY?

it was aliens.

i was there, we did just what i said

david smith so you are an alien?

This video is the full thing. Its just worn out and so the arms are less visible.

Rand Ly With this technique they can do it, only need more rope and more people and it is possible.

Felipe Frota You sound so positive, I'd have to see it before I aimlessly believe this to be true.

Rand Ly Not that i see positive, it's just that i see the effectiveness of the technique here. People always underestimate our ancestors capabilities.

Rand Ly The actual tallest statue on easter island that was completed by the natives was 10m high (33ft)... an unfinished statue is estimated to reach 21m (69ft). This statue was never moved by the natives.

This is a hypothesis on how they could've moved them, not an assertion that this is how they moved them. When you look into mythology of easter island they describe the statues as "Walking into place". The bases of the statues accommodate this technique quite brilliantly. The size of the statues is irrelevant to if the technique is viable as a way of moving them because with enough rope and enough man power size literally doesn't matter. I for one, think this is the best idea to date as to how they were moved. That doesn't mean I think they definitely done it like this but that this is the most viable technique I've seen presented because not only does it work, it also link quite nicely to the mythology.

***** The alien guys know they are full of shit...that's what makes this type of fantasy archeology worst than the alien programming.

***** A rehashed failure from 60 years ago...It's not even remotely possible with the actual size of the originals. This is nothing more than filler for hackneyed producers. It's not surprising that poorly educated dolts might find it interesting. Like shiny lures or little bits of string...They definitely know their target audience.

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