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This makes a great follow up to Randall Carlson’s talk on .

The idea that this ancient vase—and many others like it—was made with hand tools is laughably stupid. It almost certainly required a computer (a Turing machine). The machine technology required to manufacture a granite object to this level of precision might even be beyond what we have today.

It could have had a practical purpose, but the sophisticated mathematics of the design alone make it a marvel.

This makes a great follow up to Randall Carlson’s talk on [Hidden Mathematics](https://poal.co/s/History/640938). The idea that this ancient vase—and many others like it—was made with hand tools is laughably stupid. It almost certainly required a computer (a Turing machine). The machine technology required to manufacture a granite object to this level of precision might even be beyond what we have today. It could have had a practical purpose, but the sophisticated mathematics of the design alone make it a marvel.

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Some things are a failure of imagination, maybe this. "I can only imagine it was made with tools we have therefore it must have been made with tools we have."

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True, can’t imagine what you have never seen. I remember seeing such vases (maybe these) in the museum of London, next to crude clay pots and fancy other pots, but noticing they stood out as being freakishly precise when the others were only masterfully crafted.

There are many such objects in the pyramids, which hav been shown to be impossible to produce at today’s level of technology, fantastic precision of stonework. They are likely much older than the pyramids, and were simply repurposed by ancient Egyptians.

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Hah jokes on you, they were trying to make it slightly oval.