Comments on: Watch This: An Easter Island Statue Replica “Walks”

By: Bijaz

Bijaz — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:01:37 +0000

Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down!

By: David_42

David_42 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:50:11 +0000

I agree with Russ, it’s packed dirt. There’s also a ridge down the middle that you’d never see on a paved road. As far as it being applied to larger ones, all it takes is more people.

By: Davis

Davis — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:48:45 +0000

Exactly, this is obviously not a paved road. Not sure why a couple of commenters above suggested otherwise.

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:43:40 +0000

It certainly doesn’t look like pavement to me, much more like packed dirt, especially by the trail the statue leaves and the mud getting stuck on the bottom.

By: SunnyD

SunnyD — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 04:20:30 +0000

Yeah this is just a waste of time. It’s not even plausible that this was the method was used for all the statues, especially the larger ones. And it doesn’t even explain how they were sent across water. Why is this in the news?

By: Iceni

Iceni — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:39:00 +0000

Wow! Well done, and of course bigger statues, many more people than are shown here.
Maybe they watered and packed the roads, could have rolled them over rough bits, or down hill. Do anything when you have a religious,or celebebratory reason.
May not have happened like this, but certainly shows it could.

By: Joi Ellis

Joi Ellis — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:06:46 +0000

Paved road? That is clearly DIRT. There is grass and weeds growing in it, and it is mounded in the middle from rutting, and the statue is leaving a rut of its own, clearly visible.

That is NOT pavement. Even if it was, that is not beyond the ability of an ancient civilization. Romans created a network of paved roads, remember?

Statue size doesn’t matter either. You just need a larger group of people to make it move.

By: Jiri Polivka

Jiri Polivka — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:29:43 +0000

In fact, upon invitation by Mr. Heyerdahl (of Kon-Tiki fame), Mr. Pavel Pavel, a Czechoslovak inventor, has demonstrated the “dancing” statues on Easter Island, in ~1986.

So the “theorists” listed above only copied Mr. Pavel’s idea while Mr. Pavel and nobody else deserves to be celebrated for his idea.

By: Pippa

Pippa — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:26:24 +0000

The Easter Islanders always said that the statues had walked there – - -

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:33:04 +0000

They are doing it on pavement. Is there any evidence the Easter Islanders hat the technology to pave a path? Craig Gosling’s question is also relevant.