The history of the massive Easter Island statues l GMA

[@Skymaster.47]

It is mindblowing how Polynesian seafarers mastered navigation across the Pacific Ocean travelling thousands of miles discovering New Zealand, Hawaii and Rapa Nui.

[@pacman2369]

Like me and you going shops a mile away! They were giants with 20 inch penis! Metre long foot steps!

[@Angry.General1461]

They can't put a protective paint over those statues to keep them from corroding?

[@Progressive2024]

They started from Taiwan then went to the Philippines, Melanesia then Polynesia

[@noobofalltrades9766]

@@Angry.General1461they probably don't want to as they want to preserve the natural look of the statues since there wasn't any paint back when they were made.

[@pauloconnor9186]

​@@Angry.General1461😊😊😊

[@Drypancake70]

Teacher: do you have a question The class:

[@musubi-gk1er]

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[@megantn]

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[@Just_a_chill_guy-17]

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[@stephenchen856]

So amazing how they can move these giant statues. Respect!

[@Progressive2024]

They moved through ropes

[@6TomCruz6]

A bunch of college kids moved one with ropes

[@akilizz_]

Our kalias were really strong and could carry about 500 ppl at a time so yeah probably why

[@JJC1023_YT]

Lmao nice fairytale

[@AnythingJW]

wow.... amazing statues built and moved years ago by people with no machines... incredible

[@hakuamper365]

🗿 CHAMA 🗿

[@alfreddelrosario6832]

🏹 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! 🥊🥊🥊

[@the_unorganisedtasker]

The history of Easter Island is really interesting and a reminder of survival too. The island's income depends a lot on tourism and I think many locals (correct me if im wrong) have tried for years to become an independent nation from the Chilean government so it is important for them to find a way to preserve the Moai as much as they can.

[@minadopaul8287]

Very educational. Thank you

[@infiniteadam7352]

They need a water desalination system on the island, I bet they could use wind power to power it, that or tidal wave power. Would be a great place to start.

[@billyjean8057]

Well it would be great for them but at the same time it’s a island country they don’t really have the resources to put all the green energy and water desalination on the island. The water desalination alone would cost millions and millions of dollars

[@EmelyPhan]

They could use both with solar power.

[@GabiMayo-c3h]

The Problem is, yoi cannot just put the Salt back without destroying the plants in the water, itcgets to salty. ​@@billyjean8057

[@Xander102]

The rope thing was really cool 😊

[@jamesporquez3682]

Hey Dum Dum you give me Gum Gum 🗿

[@williamozier918]

Great piece! Thank you.

[@evievanhouten3194]

I love the added context here. Directly explaining the issues.

[@Katrinabuttles827]

Is it possible there’s a body inside those statues?

[@zaxisontherun]

Yes they are

[@DarkFlarePrince]

i don't think so since they were carved out of the mountain.

[@abacus749]

Are some of the EASTER ISLAND STATUES adorned with Kolpik or Shtreimel hats? Alexander Salmon Jr. Son of an English father and a Tahitian mother, was a Jew. His sister was the Queen of Tahiti. Alexander Salmon Jr. was the DE FACTO RULER EASTER ISLAND from 1878-1888. Alexander Salmon Jr. had godlike status on Easter Island, and had plantations there with over 700 indentured servants. The KOLPIK HATS remained on the Easter Island statues even after Salmon sold his holdings to Chile in 1888.

[@TheNATOShow]

I like how they gotta make it about climate change. “If we don’t stop climate change the weather is gonna get more weatherier”

[@aeughcarrot]

Exactly. They must think we're stupid!!!

[@Sara-mf3px]

Right. Like we would believe 98.7% of climate scientists!! Ridiculous.

[@conservativeforcalifornian9882]

They think their indoctrination is working with the smart people. We can see how many stupid people watch liberal media. Lol

[@LanguedocProvenceGascogneMIDI]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[@homelesstogreatness6626]

There's one on Jacksonville with long silky hair and another one in Golden State with four rings. 😂

[@pietromendes6795]

Why didn't they make the music louder?

[@BardouSia]

Gen Z: "Zigma Island" ..

[@eugenemarria2530]

You Have Soul, Michael. ☮️✅

[@vincentleapai5409]

Much love from Samoa 🇼🇸 tagata Rapa Nui ❤🎉❤

[@kevinwhelan9607]

I want to see these before I die. I find the whole thing very moving: respecting the dead, the sheer WORK involved...Wow❤

[@susanmorris5520]

I loved this video from GMA. The info about the Moia statues and the history on them was so informative and I now know a lot more about it’s people and about the states meaning and why the people did them. It does make sense. God bless the Moia people and their habitat too. Climate change is very real and very deadly too. Sue M🙏. Also, Michael Strayhan is my favorite on GMA! Hugs to you always.❤️❤️

[@Angry.General1461]

They can't put a protective paint over those statues to keep them from corroding?

[@RacheleDelucamaddox]

Love this story! More like this please!

[@SkepticalChris]

They are literally standing monuments to the achievements of the ancient peoples, that they were able to use simple stone tools to erect so many of these grand massive statues to honor their ancestors.

[@GeofferyBlevins-in4bm]

4:10 or Build them Drone like Alien Water tower Ships bUt Make it like Cool... okay?

[@mikethetech5294]

😂😂 lets just throw in the climate change B.S. the world threw the kitchen sink at the status and there still standing. (CliMaTe ChAnGe)

[@k4r4b0_1]

MOOOOAAAIIIII 🗿🗿🗿🗿

[@funkeoladipo1699]

They were made by giants not humans.

[@JK-lp6uw]

Climate change 😂😂😂😂

[@reh3884]

Sure, Jethro, your job as a gas station attendant makes you an expert.

[@JK-lp6uw]

@reh3884 you're funny..

[@anonymous17298]

Heaven for Sigmas🗿

[@003_kusarigama5]

0:42 the song name is hoko manu by yoyo tuki

[@rickyli5455]

I'm pretty sure they can coat it to prevent or atleast slow down natural weathering . That island is definitely bucket list in my book !

[@cc.critcher7829]

How did they walk them up on the platform?

[@poorsillyboy]

I know it’s hard to believe today, but Easter Island was a terrifyingly over populated island that fell to the egos & foolishness of opposing forces it’s lovely to see its forests and habitat being slowly restored as more visitors arrive to learn about the fate of such a stunningly uncontrolled prehistoric Industrial Age that almost cost them everything

[@theadeemable1]

I cant wait to go!

[@GeofferyBlevins-in4bm]

3:21 so those sing a song in walk here or what?

[@nyrubin]

ABC needs to make more videos like this

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

If the Sphinx is older than Egypt says then the Easter Island Natives 🗿 🏝 and the Native American ancestors in Africa are related. And the Sphinx was originally created by the ancestors of those who left North Africa and the Richat Structure aka The Eye of the Sahara aka Atlantis well over 50,000 years ago.

[@naveendotcom]

Shut up, fool

[@reh3884]

Put down the crack pipe.

[@Angry.General1461]

​@@reh3884They can't put a protective paint over those statues to keep them from corroding?

[@susannebrunberg4174]

The eye of Sahara, is definitely not Atlantis

[@suzy7573]

What song was that? 😊

[@marvincultee6740]

They could have made long absolutely round long carved rocks. Rolled them to spot then carved them at the spot erected

[@SHANECatLovinActivistHistorian]

rich people would pay millions to have one of these in their mansion

[@dw.imaging]

Oh no. The climate is changing back to what it was when these mysterious people existed. The waters recede reveling what the water levels once were. Imagine telling these ancient people the climate was going to change thousands of years ago and cause the ocean to overtake their statues. They would have thought it to be nonsense. But here we are, perhaps going back to their “normal”.

[@mzwrightbella3542]

Facts

[@reh3884]

God, imagine you're so dumb you can't see the world dying. You inbred are a joke.

[@vincentlalicata696]

Are we to believe that a brush fire melted these "moai" like butter what are they hiding

[@Kasterkk]

This video is so 🗿

[@topcoffeebar]

lovely!

[@Stonecutter334]

We don’t have any real solid info on these statues. Anyone whos says different is lying. Plain and simple.

[@user-zz3wg9yp5p]

Where are the practiced failed attempts.

[@laurenmarina1494]

interesting

[@johnfkeating]

Ohhhhhhh. It’s climate change !!!!

[@hernancontreras-it4ol]

At minute 1:39-1:40

[@birderjohn3396]

The oceans are all connected. Sea level rise would effect NYC and Easter Island equally.

[@JJC1023_YT]

To really think people moved these status by hand are delusional.

[@AlohaAlexandra]

Who discovered what these were after night at the museum

[@user-wf3ys7ue8k]

Very sad. I visited this island about 20 years ago. It didn't have a developed infrastructure and it was a very uncomfortable, long trip that made it a trip that was very difficult. Much of this report is definitely wrong

[@andiweinbender50415]

🌍🧚‍♀️❤👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🙏Love from Kempten

[@coppertopv365]

I can't help but wonder if there were people on the Easter Island and they created these statues. Where are the cemeteries? where are the old living structures? If no one is there today, they came an Left in boats.. but they stayed somewhere, and they had to have water. There's some work to do, an things To Find.

[@CyndaquilStudios]

behold chad island

[@shanebrown5709]

So iam sure the moai have seen a few climate changes.

[@ReadingComprehension8X]

Why move it ?…

[@hernancontreras-it4ol]

These are connect with the Bermuda triangle open triangle whole underneath each one

[@josephsfirstchannelsonic1162]

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[@hernancontreras-it4ol]

Could be sport drinks and etc

[@mmusic9681]

This garbage reporting. These are not facts. The 'walking" for example is just 1 of many theories. And that one they walked is 3 times smaller than the real ones. Just awful inaccurate reporting.

[@RoselynWinward]

Isnt there something they could coat the Moai with?

[@gmac2558]

If you have nothing better to do, you could probably move anything

[@birderjohn3396]

I heard this all burned down?!?

[@Crazymexicano214]

Bros gap is larger than the island

[@jessicahand9183]

This is getting scary but everyone is blind to it....u kno how hard it is to go that island. Do ur homework on it

[@Даниил-с5]

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[@JasonQuinn-qq4om]

If I could go to one place before I die it would be Easter Island.

[@waisidesojah]

Mahalo Ke Akua for Polynesia

[@hvp685]

So... is anyone planting trees ...?

[@jah-of1eb]

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[@originalclaymoreboy728]

The moai are far older then just 3 centuries these moai are far older.

[@BetterCalISauI]

Bruh 🗿

[@bcask61]

Its like the Easter Islanders foresaw the coming of John Kerry and knew he would save the planet.

[@hernancontreras-it4ol]

Are all rocks gonna get blown up ! Then raise it up

[@Hani_irl]

Why move them? They were better in their original place

[@reh3884]

Their original places were all knocked down, laying on the ground and broken. It's only in modern times they were put back upright and repaired.

[@billyjean8057]

Wait I was thought the the original people of Easter island cannibalised themselfs because they used all the resources on the island how r these people the ancestors of them or were they just another tribe that came after the original people

[@reh3884]

That's a myth. The island came to ruin because a new cult started up.

[@originalclaymoreboy728]

White people talk

[@arnett91972]

Examine the mystery of the Birdman Cult

[@irawardofficial]

Okay, how did they cave them? LOL. Ridiculous without machines...

[@TanielaLoketi-zx5fp]

They move it by roll it on top of coconut tree

[@RobinLMoe]

The truth of my older brothers tiki is of Natural Origin ∆∆∆∆∆ and I will tell you ∆∆∆ the Moeai Tiki of Makou Rapanui is buried in Earth because my older brothers Tiki pre dates the historical Floods is a little older. Rapanui was known and still is as the Island of The Gods. ( In the Earlier days of Marine trade when they thought Earth was flat.. The International Marine route passed Easter Islands in those days. International friends adopted Rapanui like they do Hawaii in these times. They named Easter Island Island of the Gods.. Rapanui.. the statues are covered in dirt because the statues pre date the Ancient Flood fams.. 🌛🌞🌜 🗿🗿🗿

[@d.roulie828]

cap no humans move that statue smh

[@reh3884]

Shake your head all you want. It's been already proven people can move them.

[@Zealzies]

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[@Godzillaboi1406]

Ohio🗿

[@hernancontreras-it4ol]

This is simulation it's far east north of them as view from camera phone on screen all

[@1-Animator1]

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[@kcwade2003]

Climate change 🤦🏽

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

our front turte back our back turtle front

[@ajuber876]

Alien technology

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Ancient Polynesian

[@jessicahand9183]

Its a cover up

[@suryanaray7942]

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[@joaquinncorral7794]

Alex Pereria land 🗿

[@al-paciyes5722]

They are gender neutral....it seems

[@reh3884]

What's your point, inbred?

[@KM15Athletics]

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[@saigonmonopoly1105]

see that they stuck in the mud uhh heavy dog rock in solid ground grasspit not sand pit mudpit

[@jeffreywiley3654]

Rain catchment systems. problem solved.