Comments on: Amazing Model of Herod’s Temple Took 30 Years To Build

By: Named

Named — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:16:00 +0000

Pathetic.

By: PPCLI

PPCLI — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:24:44 +0000

A masterful piece of work. 30 years of effort doesn’t deserve smart ass comments.

By: RBG

RBG — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:52:58 +0000

13 deowll: “When the old boy passes away I figure a couple of guys with shovels can have that space cleaned up in no time.”

You laugh. This happened to the old boy who made the Challenger Relief Map of British Columbia: a monumental, hand built 80-by-76 foot topographic map of the province made of carved wood. Built by George Challenger and his family from 1947 to 1954, it features all of B.C.’s mountains, lakes, rivers and valleys in exact-scaled topographical detail.

The Guinness Book of Records cites the Challenger Map as the largest of it’s kind in the world. The map in its entirety occupies 6,080 square feet (1,850 square metres) of space.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:47:27 +0000

It would’ve been quicker to build a life size one.

By: Ron Larson

Ron Larson — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:46:28 +0000

#11 JimR….

Good one… sounds like the setup for a good Gary Larson Far Side cartoon

By: JimR

JimR — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:17:27 +0000

#15… oops.

By: the real billybob

the real billybob — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:48:08 +0000

Titan painted it…

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:28:07 +0000

N-E-R-D.

By: PcMaster

PcMaster — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:53:52 +0000

That is just AWESOME!

and

#11
It was “Titus” not Titan, who led the Romans to sac the temple in Jerusalem in AD 70

By: Carcarius

Carcarius — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:23:15 +0000

This guy had far too much free time on his hands.

By: deowll

deowll — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:35:04 +0000

The Parthenon (the copy) is in Nashville.

We have several decent descriptions of the Temple including a fair amount of information on what the materials used where.

Of course the plateform is still there and some drawings/engravings exist. It was considered one of the “must see” places while it existed.

When the old boy passes away I figure a couple of guys with shovels can have that space cleaned up in no time.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:17:03 +0000

#11, Jim,

Ouch !!! We didn’t see that coming.

By: JimR

JimR — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:00:40 +0000

… meanwhile across the hall, Julio Antonius 82 (arch enemy of Alec Garrard), has been working for an impressive 29,800 hours hand modeling, baking and painting, over 18,000 troops of the Roman Empire Army led by Titan, complete with actual working miniature armor and weapons.

By: chuck

chuck — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:44:11 +0000

I didn’t see any 1:100 scale suicide bombers in any of the pictures.

By: sargasso

sargasso — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:28:10 +0000

See what happens, when someone retires!