Walking with Giants: How the Easter Island Moai Moved | Nat Geo Live

[@Lina9Music]

I love that the moais have their own emoji 🗿

[@Progamer-ry2yx]

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[@mr.trololo3071]

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[@anaceron2651]

🗿🗿🗿🗿 Love it

[@toekid7179]

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[@Carlesmansen]

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[@gregorius4648]

The fact that they actually Made a stop motion for this is just incredible

[@strongfp]

One of the issues I find with a lot of these theories that involve moving large stone objects that people tend to forget that these people didn't have lives like we have today. There was no 'time' limit on completing a project, it was more of when it got done, it was done. Not everything had a set dead line, and one statue may have taken a year or two to move, even more, I'm sure they didn't have anything else to do.

[@mojojoji5493]

Patrick Strong also hills, walking and sleds with that much weight can be dangerous, you’d have no control of the fall most likely pulled there on its back but who knows lol

[@Alex10daysago]

Alex Cooper get off the weed

[@anuragmathur6159]

@@Alex10daysago nailed it!

[@jec6918]

Strongfp no one can say for sure. Not even you so relax

[@MsJeanneMarie]

I feel like their days could have been equally full or more so. They had to hunt, gather, or farm. Societies didn’t have free time to start individualizing labor until they became agrarian. I don’t know if the Rappa Nui was agrarian. Were they?

[@dennisacac]

Ancient people has their own and unique way to move heavy things than we modern people can do.

[@ZeronimeYT]

Tey used telekinetic

[@ZeronimeYT]

Tey used telekinetic

[@k.r.99]

@@ZeronimeYT sure. They also invented KI-blasts like the Kame Hame Ha on Haiwaii.

[@HiddenAgendas]

The Tibetans used vibrations / sound waves to move large boulders with pin point accuracy.

[@basedturu2320]

I've missed the days when we can fly without Newton law

[@Casteray]

The fact that 🗿 emoji is so popular that people actually timetravelled to make a statue out of them

[@Gongos17]

Waiting for someone to get wooooshed

[@redheadshield9627]

:'(

[@Gongos17]

@Someone your trying to woooosh me with a “thats not how it works”? Ill let you know i can make a w on an m&m without magic >:)

[@thetheatreorgan168]

amerzing rigt!!!!!11

[@phantomwraith1984]

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[@sigma6669]

I didn't know NG was working with Robot Chicken lol

[@CPT85]

Lmao! That’s what I was thinking too!

[@MsJeanneMarie]

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[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

Lmao

[@nuttynoah5342]

Newgrounds?

[@m_luthfi_k1323]

@@nuttynoah5342 national geographic

[@avien107]

lmao they mad 🗿 into a real thing 😂😂😂

[@orangeman3220]

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[@DoctorForeman-gb4pi]

@ٰ *roundabout intensifies*

[@astrolightingyt4531]

Comedy heaven

[@astrolightingyt4531]

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[@BoogerGoober]

@ٰ Yo, angelo! 👋🗿

[@kylecarter3024]

anyone ever wonder why aliens flew light years in craft made of high tech alloys just to carve half assed statues out of rock on a world plentiful of elements to make high-tech alloys

[@todaysfreelancer9052]

Eh maybe coz you know rocks last thousands of years.

[@Ratigan2]

@@todaysfreelancer9052 then why not make it out of diamonds?

[@EnLaMatrix1]

Kind of like making a sand castle at a beach, no? Just for fun, no need for anything else to make sense.

[@realhumanbean7915]

@@todaysfreelancer9052 Erosion lmao.

[@thatsaboat2882]

Because 🗿

[@raffasyayudatama8404]

What a masterpiece 🗿

[@nicp51]

I hate when people see a situation where humans didn't have modern machinery to move large objects and they immediately think aliens. There wouldn't be modern anything if not for innovative people thinking of new ways to get shit done.

[@aslacuentayya]

You are very Wrong, people also think in giants from the bible.

[@Avenger4343]

aslacuentayya people and the bible.full of shit both of them

[@josephjoe3970]

aslacuentayya you are very wrong

[@blacksupra001]

there are studies that show that ancient humans were really highly intelligent as well

[@luftwaffle3766]

Modern humans: 🗿

[@triciar5432]

I think its funny that the people that lived in the island were able to move them and say "they walked" and present say peopel are still wondering and trying to figure out how they did that. Super cool

[@nickl5658]

Walking moai is reasonable. Their model is a scaled model of a larger maoi, and their model is of the same size and mass of most maoi. Only a few maoi are actually larger.

[@NeilHaran]

What happens if the Walking moai falls down? They don't have a crane to lift it back up, do they?

[@MrNateSPF]

Fallen moai are left there. Several have been found along the paths from the quarry.

[@foxinc.3153]

But they didn't have rope like we have would rope back then be stong enough if they even had any at all

[@juch3]

@@foxinc.3153 that's your assumption

[@alexanderpennington4055]

then how did they get it upright to begin with?@@MrNateSPF

[@3mo2007]

this is the best thing ive ever watched

[@theperfectionist]

Still a better love story than Twilight.

[@theascendunt9960]

Doesn't even fking make sense!

[@killerloli508]

It's not even a love story

[@dumaznbum]

I find it fascinating that ancient man moved stones that weighed up to 150 tons, sometimes up hill! , and so called modern man can only theorize how they did it. The truth is the past is far murkier than the simple explanations that are offered as fact.

[@juch3]

We can theorize because not enough people is willing to get involved

[@gaymermoment]

Yeah, well, we live past 30 so...

[@thetheatreorgan168]

@@gaymermoment average statistics can easily be distorted by one example, this being the high mortality of childbirth

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

@@thetheatreorgan168 also 70 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot. Being a statistician is basically being paid to lie to people.

[@DaddyDaughterBroadcasting]

That explains one aspect. Let’s say, they get it to the platform! How do they get it up there? How did they do it so perfectly? Has anyone tried that?

[@koreboredom4302]

This is probably how they hauled it to the spot. Once everything got there, they could've just put everything in their place.

[@DBT1007]

About how to erect and to dump them deep in the soil, it's easy thing. They just dig the hole. It revolves around digging and making ramp

[@veniqer]

@@DBT1007 The statues weren't just busts or heads.

[@Hunpecked]

As I recall, one theory is that the "hats" were put on top using ramps.

[@ShivamRaina-dm9df]

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[@matinajazmine]

That must have been one strong rope

[@ezelio]

They make ropes from Coconut coir

[@thenot-so-lamebird.844]

Made from the koko fruit from the koko tree of the kokopalm family!

[@aldrinaldrin4618]

@@thenot-so-lamebird.844 Not it's Koko koko ko ko kokoko ko ko.

[@LEONGHOIIENG梁凱凝]

This film is so good and nice!!!

[@hodarov1564]

This is so epic 🗿

[@Squize.]

I haven't been this pleased with a late night topic binge in a while.

[@ean0826]

Loved the stopmotion in this!

[@jmbbao]

The moais walked in that way but inside of a trench so they didn't fall to the sides. Also a guy with a wood was moving in front and placed the wood to avoid the moai falling forwards.

[@farrelbaidinara8097]

1:01 them eyes xd

[@BenchOnaQUEST]

Great video!!! We still may be wrong about all those theories...

[@joshjones]

I skipped 25 seconds and I’m already seeing ufo’s

[@crash3560]

I love the sound effects

[@monicafawkes1339]

They said some of the symbols carved on the backs was half moon symbol that meaning is a sign of fertility, related to life and death, and thus a popular symbol in many religions. It pinpoints changing seasons, ebb and tide (and related inundations as harbingers of fertility), and the feminine menstrual cycle. If you notice some of the statues look like they are holding it's stomach 😳

[@Pauly421]

I actually loved the stop motion in this video. Very charming!

[@kH-sh5km]

love the stop motion tho lol

[@teressakarr3610]

My theory on how theses statues were moved is that they used beeswax. After cutting them out of the quarry they left a vein at the back and inserted it onto a tract like pathway made from Palm leaves saturated with beeswax thus a cushioned frictionless surface. To onlookers at the base of the mountain it would appear like the statues were walking. Once down on more level ground they moved them by strapping on compressed beeswax slabs under the angled front base to move them to the platforms. The rock theses statues were carved from were volcanic and quite porous therefore absorbable to the beeswax. They simply slid these enormous statues around effortlessly. Once in place they carved off the back veins and levelled the bases.

[@ghz24]

Bees were brought in Easter Island by priests around 1850 No wax has been found in the pores of the moai.

[@daxi1584]

That's what I was thinking! Like the Ottoman did. Easter Island was very tree-rich back then,planks were laid down to form a path to the beach, greased and pushed rock,which would explain why Easter Island is tree-poor now

[@lunantix]

*This is a certified 🗿 classic.*

[@rockydee7499]

Nat Geo: Ropes and sticks History Channel: *ALIENS*

[@IXBhangXI]

You know how stupid this looks now that they found that the statues are double in size.

[@-john2g3]

hahah it looks stupid even if someone don't know that the statues are double in size

[@Goohuman]

Moreover, that didn't look like carved rock. I doubt the weight was close to accurate.

[@Sylvarus]

It's volcanic rock, which is quite light

[@Mateyhv1]

Definitely, looks stupid!

[@laloweed]

Watch the documentary. They explain that for you.

[@asharsiddiqui]

moai starts walking on its own saying hooooaaa runs away*

[@skybattler2624]

Remember, the islanders have a very specific term invented to describe this type of walking, and they are synonym to the type of walking people with fully amputated legs have done. This is similar to how Asians have many terms describing rice and the state on how it is cooked, Greek have 3 terms to describe a type of love, and how Aramaic and Hebrew have many terms just to skirt around the religious restriction about using their God's name. That should be enough to tell everything, but, oh well, 'aliens', right?

[@KiLLJOY1056]

Fantastic use of stop motion

[@fxlcovlxdimir]

Ooooh now I know why giants say fee fi fo fum!!

[@rolandmagiera3728]

The last theory looks good but if one try to move a 75 tons statue in that way, I afraid, it will sink slowly into the ground. Remember, they had to move 75 tons concentrated on a small diameter of 5-20 inches! In Germany a truck with a large power-plant-turbine had a malfunction and the load was set on a modern, bituminized road (highway qualitiy). A few hours later the leading engineer was informed, that the container with the turbine was sunk more than a half meter into the road by its own weight. One or two hours later and it would have been impossible to lift up the container!

[@etherealenergy9471]

You are correct which is why this is fake. They are laughing at people who believe this. What they made is actually hollow on the inside with rocks at the bottom of it. These were never carved out of stone they turned to stone from the flood.

[@NuRichter]

amazing moves, nice🗿

[@obuxman3790]

This is a certified moai classic

[@litete2512]

The statue probably walked on its own 🗿

[@CarlosVeloso-oh5xk]

Happy Easter Day!

[@aaronduquette1539]

I was wondering can these walking megaliths pull cargo when they are being rocked back and forth?

[@SabrinaTang-k9k]

The video is so cute~~~😄😄😄😍❤🗿❤

[@HackneyShark]

It's weird that there have been different theories, but no firm answer to this mystery. Maybe they DID walk!

[@theinvisiblewun]

There is indeed a firm answer Hackney Shark, Buy Heyerdahl's book called "Aku Aku:" from Amazon and discover the truth - Archaeologists like this guy a re dumber than dumb because it was all worked out years ago - Time was their greatest asset - we try to understand things in terms of everything has to be done now - today - back then time had no meaning - they cut, moved and stood them to songs they sang and we'll never know how long the Maoi actually toook to make and stand....the book is one of the best reads you'll ever buy.

[@HackneyShark]

Interesting! I'll try and find it.

[@w2c20042003]

They did walk. Pay attention to oral histories of indigenous people and you'll repeatedly find the truth.

[@djaelanimunfiq2909]

At am i see moai statue in here Me : SQUIDWARD~ WELCOME TO TIKI LAND~ TIKI TIKI

[@roberttryhorn4633]

I have a possible solution. Have a LifeSize statue carved out of the same rock as a human. Now move it and place said statue on a chosen location. If the visiting giants were the same size as the statues. If they came to earth from a place where gravity was much greater than ours, would they not move these statues with ease? We have walked on the moon !

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Everyone gangstar until the 🗿 grows legs

[@ThankYouESM]

But, as recently discovered... these Maoi statues have a full body, basically twice the weight

[@almiralamgirbey9892]

+ThankYouESM I wanna see them try those moving methods on one of these 1.bp.blogspot.com/-nf-3MjJQO1M/VaOHcNl-slI/AAAAAAAAA64/7C4mjdAD-hQ/s640/381.jpg

[@clearwaterlakota8405]

+ben nichols Interesting... just guessing here, is it easier to deal with larger objects because they overwhelm the obstacles in their path? In my own experience of clearing small trees and shrubs from land, the big stuff just crushes its way through the landscape, whereas smaller stuff gets entangled with those same obstacles. But it's harder to see how this applies to the Moai, since the primary resistance they encounter is the friction which is directly proportional to their own mass. Elaborate if you wish.

[@Thomes-Maisling]

This is the head and the body being shown of the size of the mojority of moai. There are fallen ones that didn't make it to their destination all over the island proving this. Some terrible misleading media reports are saying they have bodies like it's some kind of recent groundbreaking discovery. It isn't.

[@josefita1567]

There are some moai that have full bodies, but they aren't how one would imagine. There's one that's shown kneeling, there are others who have a big torso buried .

[@MrNateSPF]

They all have bodies, and archeologists have known this for like 70 years. Most are not that tall, in fact the replica shown near the end is just a little under average.

[@andyabdr]

I really like the animation

[@clashofclansaccplscocaccol1732]

So they they didn’t think that they carved it in one spot and left it there

[@awkwardomelette7316]

Clashofclansaccpls Cocaccols yeah😂

[@MsJeanneMarie]

No because the materials they are made from aren’t found in the location where they found them.

[@romusmoviesctc9764]

Nice anim...now do it with a only 10 meters and 23 ton model.

[@randywatson8347]

They were inspired by pinguins lol

[@CodexUniverso]

💪🏋️the famous strongmen of Easter Island 👏

[@BigSi-xw6wv]

I always felt this dude's theory was dumb as hell now it's been proven

[@janmachala5297]

I can imagine how difficult it must be for some scientists to discover the way the ancient people moved the Moai 500 years ago if they cannot properly describe the way Pavel Pavel moved Moai only 40 years ago :-(

[@Ratigan2]

But what if they had to go uphill?

[@badcornflakes6374]

They didn't. a ton of them fell on their journey.

[@Ratigan2]

@@badcornflakes6374 source please.

[@chinogabesv650]

@@Ratigan2 the roads the moai were moved on in easter island are still accessible, the national gov has photos of some that fell over and land surveyists say the roads never inclined over 6°

[@sawudonuk6940]

I love your video new sup here

[@MrGopi1987]

i feel we are actually creating a different probality and which ever is possible by current humans, we assume that this is how it would have moved, its a good way of looking but i think we have to start thinking WHY would someone wants to build a megalithic figures, even in egypt or any other places, is it just for pride, passion, is it they dint have anything much to do, they would have built huge shelters for themselves by putting same huge effort, a shleter that can last for centuries.

[@matiasbenitez980]

You just answered your own question. People had a lot of time on their hands and a lot of religious devotion in their brains.

[@gregorywalkowiak1591]

How did they move the Moai over the see? the island is to small and didn't have any volcano to procure the stone for the Moai, or there is not any explaination about how the Moai's body were under ground... any explaination that I have miss?

[@cillyhoney1892]

The island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is actually an old extinct volcano and the people carved the statues out a volcanic rock there called tuff. We know this because we have found the ancient quarry they used with unfinished statues still there. The Moai's that are half buried are buried because they are on a hillside and have been covered by soil eroding down from the hill. They were never intentionally buried but became that way over hundred of years.

[@sonofkrypton2851]

Maybe titans moved them.

[@jefferylawrence9812]

Yes or nephilim giants! The Bible talks about how there was giants in the earth

[@generalbaguette3489]

When you have a lifetime to think about life with little distractions like we now with the internet, humans can achieve great things

[@izmeghostly2036]

Never knew about easter island nice to know some more facts ༼ つ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ༽つ

[@Lostmusicvideos]

This episode of Robot Chicken is really informative.

[@zaldycustodio4635]

Ti! Mo! Ti! Mo!

[@whkwole6842]

I believe those archaeologists were on the wrong track. Instead of assuming that people had transported the statues, we should assume that the statues were built on the spot with cement which could be made with the volcanic ash available on the island. To verify the cement idea, we just cut a few slices of the material from the statue and analyze them under an electronic magnifying glass to find whether there are traces of marine lives and human hair, or whether they have salt.

[@tommyclark3077]

Seems reasonable, not sure why no one else agrees

[@mortal88]

because the real ones are in the 100's of tonnes

[@badcornflakes6374]

@@mortal88 Then it takes more human power

[@nayvadiusdanielle1591]

They were boulders and were rolled, soon after they sculpted them in a set place

[@XxDannyGioxX]

75 tons ....you know how many people it would take to move 150,000 pounds !!! How were they even carved?

[@teknotiksB]

Danny Gio Look for pictures of the easter island quarry. They were carved exactly the same way that other structures in the world like the unfinished obelisk at aswan egypt and obelisk at baalbek lebanon. Machining was involved. and advanced techology.

[@XxDannyGioxX]

elTeknoo I meant what tools were used, stone ? The amount of time and effort that went into to those statues, for what purpose? We don't even know because the hieroglyphics weren't even deciphered

[@XxDannyGioxX]

Just saw the bottom part now , there was no "advanced" machining when they were made

[@teknotiksB]

look up videos of acient structures like the unfinished obelisk at aswan. youll notice scoop marks. Baalbek lebanon same fashion. then look at the quarry for the moai. same technology was applied. look up magnetic stones on eastern island on youtube. they could alter magnetic fields of stones. same for puma punku. we are talking about technology we dont even posses today. lost technology. Do research on your own and then come to a conclusion. Do just believe what some man wrote on a book 100 years ago.

[@XxDannyGioxX]

elTeknoo thanks for the direction I'll look into it

[@dontagemontage]

They really went the Robot Chicken route to give us a visual.

[@Mistabushi]

The thing that people tend to forget about these statues is the fact that almost equal portion of the visible statue is buried underground.

[@daxi1584]

Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position,and then saying,"Right,lads!Another twenty like that and then we can party!" --Bill Bryson

[@adamant8435]

3:39 Actual footage of me approaching women

[@lapizza7175]

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[@kasenmiller1122]

Can we now try to figure out why the statues are there and what they mean?

[@OmrayaMatrix]

...in 2010 they walked a 10 ft statue that weighed what? Looked like it was made of paper mache' .....doesn't get close to explaining how they got them (up to 75 tons off their backs and) out of the quarry~

[@kyle87t]

lol yeah that statue looked pretty weak and small compared to the real thing.

[@iSee109]

Yeah! They moved a 10 ft statute, but they also said some Moai stand 60ft tall. They actually said 20 meters, which is about 60 feet.

[@MrNateSPF]

The average is 4 meters and 14 tons.

[@Lavatouille]

I saw this on TV a long time ago

[@cvxsrdd0t592]

2017: use trucks

[@poisontree6181]

0:45 how the history channel be at 2 AM

[@Северсейды]

В общем, способ должен быть простым.. настолько, чтобы само перемещение было праздником!

[@napoleonmoore9147]

Nice stop motion bat geo ;) ✅

[@deadegg9577]

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[@theSUBVERSIVE]

If only it was a plain Island and not full of hills and mountains but interesting nonetheless

[@MelonLover2006]

🗿 he do be vibing tho

[@stephaniemitchell8509]

Um, I highly doubt they "walked" it. It's too much work for the miles they'd have to travel from quarry to oceanside. From how extremely tall many of them are, a tottering would be difficult, slow, and dangerous. I can tell just by looking at the unearthed bodies how they most likely did it. The fronts are bulbous and curvy, but the backs are flat, leading to easy movement by being rolled on logs on their backs. All you do is dig into the earth at an angle and push/pull them into the pit, then it takes much less leverage to grab them at the head and pull them upright in the pit. They could have carved the heiroglyphs in the pits too, to prevent any possible wear to them while in movement. There may be bits of stone left in those holes, but it's possible they were cleared out before the holes were filled level. There are also broken idols along the road to the coast, but high-tech machines have confirmed they originally had stone platforms they fell off of over the centuries, and were meant to line the holy road.

[@xenzorYT]

this looks like a robot chicken animation

[@tejasnite]

This is cute and we are still teeing to figure this great mystery out I think a giant Easter bunny left them they were chocolate once but petrified over many Easters

[@fissionist2158]

A certified 🗿classic.

[@ianjj05]

🗿🗿🗿

[@bubblebath2892]

I loved the animation or stop motion should I say

[@ihabdia6486]

i bet that those are coffins and theres skeletons of respected tribe members in there

[@Avenger4343]

ihab dia thats an interesting theory

[@spiritwolves6908]

Maybe there are

[@lpspineapple6048]

like in Egypt with the mummies

[@notbrentfaiyaz]

This world puzzles me

[@affedieb295]

What a BS . They build these statues and dragged them around on trees and not even built houses of stone ?

[@weawenaweon5556]

the did build houses

[@MrNateSPF]

It is probably BS that they dragged them around on trees, as the island had an erosion problem due to a lack of trees. Scraps from the carving (basically gravel and various sized rock) were used to make the loose land livable. Then if you think about it... they lined the shores with these huge, heavy statues. Then notice how the land built up around the statues instead of eroding away.

[@ashura_7777]

Walking Moai 14 years ago shortclip brought me here

[@kornyhags79]

these statues are 33 ft tall(the statues being half buried), weighing 82 tons, and each had a individual hat made of stone on top of the head for all 887 giant statues, these theories are laughable .

[@theinvisiblewun]

you are right - get the book from Amazon called Aku Aku by Thor Heyerdal - it contains the coloured photos taken back in 1955 of the descendants moving, & standing the statues. Heyerdahl did not put forward a theory as mentioned here - he didn't need to.

[@vwazp]

ur in denial, humans r smart

[@Mateyhv1]

Its clear that you are not as you don't even know to write properly. Guess you are not human

[@MrNateSPF]

Uh, most did not have hats. You couldn't be bothered to even look at a picture? ...let alone read the facts...

[@richardanthonygilbey]

We need a couple of these for outside the SARACENS

[@MrLaloman18]

The Moai were created by the same people that looked just like them.... in ancient scripts there is a mentioned of this island the they called it "The Giant Island". These were mere mirror statues of these giant people in those times! They also knew like most of all ancient civilizations in ancient times how to levitate megalithic stones using reverse polarity and super high wave sounds as these are amazing simple pure Natural energy/technology!

[@GoreTorn16]

haha Looks like Robot Chicken animated this

[@bigsmartarmed9488]

This is entertainer for 5 years old children. Since when did National Geographic begin offering programming for children?

[@rukikanzaki3401]

since i came .. to this world XD

[@sunday8507]

BigSmartArmed They do they have book and documentaries for them..

[@ridgemondhigh4891]

Even the smartest engineers still can't figure this out for certain.

[@M_.M979]

After 11 years, this is still a certified 🗿 moment.

[@RayaRoentgen]

And now my head is aching...