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<p>[QUOTE="brassnautilus, post: 2154382, member: 74300"]I'm really more curious than shocked.</p><p>What you guys think they can do to those ancient buildings? Bulldozers aren't going to work dude. They stood there for thousands of years because they were made of giant stones. You can pull it down but that doesn't really destroy the building blocks themselves. Are they going to move the stones hundreds of miles so we can't find them later? Or they going to use dynamite to blow them up? I can't see that being an effective method of disposing granites...</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention, a lot of people have been fascinated by the foundation structures of these temples, that were ruins of even older temples and made of absolutely gigantic cut stones. It might be interesting if them ISIS actually managed to expose more of those foundation structures, but I really don't think they'd reach that far.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brassnautilus, post: 2154382, member: 74300"]I'm really more curious than shocked. What you guys think they can do to those ancient buildings? Bulldozers aren't going to work dude. They stood there for thousands of years because they were made of giant stones. You can pull it down but that doesn't really destroy the building blocks themselves. Are they going to move the stones hundreds of miles so we can't find them later? Or they going to use dynamite to blow them up? I can't see that being an effective method of disposing granites... Not to mention, a lot of people have been fascinated by the foundation structures of these temples, that were ruins of even older temples and made of absolutely gigantic cut stones. It might be interesting if them ISIS actually managed to expose more of those foundation structures, but I really don't think they'd reach that far.[/QUOTE]
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