Posted on 03/16/2022 8:03:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The largest of the two voids is located just above the grand gallery — a passageway that leads to what may be the chamber of the pharaoh Khufu — and is about 98 feet (30 meters) long and 20 feet (6 m) in height, according to previous pyramid scans. Archaeologists are uncertain as to what they will find in the void, which could be one large area or several small rooms, they said. They also hope to find out the function of that void; the most fantastic possibility is that the opening is the hidden burial chamber of Khufu. A more mundane possibility is that the cavity played some role in the building of the pyramid.
The previous scans also revealed a second, much smaller void, just beyond the north face of the pyramid. Its purpose is also unclear.
Between 2015 and 2017, the "Scan Pyramids" project ran a series of scans that analyzed muons — cosmic particles that regularly fall on Earth — to detect any voids. Those scans revealed both of the voids in 2017.
Now, a new team is planning to scan the Great Pyramid again, but this time with a more powerful system that will analyze muons in greater detail. Muons are negatively-charged elementary particles that form when cosmic rays collide with atoms in Earth's atmosphere. These high-energy particles constantly rain down on Earth (yes, they're harmless); because they behave differently when interacting with say stone versus air, researchers can use super-sensitive detectors to pinpoint the particles and map areas they can't physically explore, as with the Great Pyramid.
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Call the History Channel, amigo.
These high-energy particles constantly rain down on Earth (yes, they’re harmless)
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Democrats will find a way make this another form of global warming and label it a “crisis” that calls for a national effort to save us from it. Just watch.
Paging Al Gore...
Anyone care to comment just why there is such a fascination with digging up ancient graves and why vampire or living dead shows are so prevalent in popular culture.
Call the History Channel, amigo.
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Or maybe Geraldo.
It’s always in the last place you look.
“The largest of the two voids is located just above the grand gallery...”
Structurally, this would be the place to put “relieving chambers” to reduce the weight pushing down on the gallery, just like there are relieving chambers above the King’s chamber.
Fear of the unknown. Fear of people with different cultures or looks. Fear of competition due to lack of self-confidence in personal abilities. These are all common fears.
Didn’t they do a scan of Tut’s tomb, and find a void behind a wall in his burial chamber? I would love to be involved in either one of those searches!
As entropy said, fear of the unknown. At one people thought there were dragons waiting to eat ships that sailed to the edge of the world. Now it’s aliens.
“why vampire or living dead shows are so prevalent in popular culture”
Well, ladies like vampires because they are the ultimate “sexy bad boys”, and men like zombies because you can blast away at them with automatic weapons or cut their heads off with samurai swords without any pesky moral quandaries.
I’m guessing it’s the ballroom and the tiki lounge.
Because they’re not graves. Anyone that tells you they’re graves are trying to lead your astray.
Because they’re not graves. Anyone that tells you they’re graves are trying to lead your astray.
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Oh great one, please bestow your knowledge upon us as to what they are then?
Great stuff, hope they learn more soon.
They started out as tombs, but, as grave robbers kept breaking in, it became cheaper to use the Valley of the Kings, which was easier to secure.
It came down to how much cash would be spent on protecting the Pharaoh’s treasures.
I think popular entertainment is a reflection of the times. The '70s film was pretty fatalistic, with lots of exaggerated violence and a projection, cities being dysfunctional and in decline, and traditional values being lost. Romantic comedy? Not so much. Tearjerkers instead. America was in the doldrums in the '70s economically and culturally so it fit the mood.
The '80s flipped it, very upbeat with lots of openly patriotic themes, the violence was made more cartoonish bright colors, bouncy music. Light romantic comedy was back on the menu. The national mood was positive (leftists were miserable, of course. They always are. But they were in retreat then).
The '90s was eclectic but there were several films that featured a 'nothing is what it seems' sort of vibe. For example The Matrix, Seven, Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, Groundhog Day, The Truman Show. I'm not sure what that says about the zeitgeist of the era though. The effect of widespread internet access?
The last 20 years has been post-apocalyptic / zombies and superheroes everywhere. Zombies = a force of nature, the uncontrollable threat. You can't defeat the zombies anymore than you can stop a hurricane. That's never the point, its just to survive and so they are really movies about characters under extreme pressure and how some rise and some descend to the depths of human nature. Different takes on that, sometimes humanity bonds together to fight back and the threat unifies people (World War Z). Others like the Walking Dead seem to basically say that man's default is aggression, selfishness, and oppression with just a few willing to fight for the values they held before the zombies came. I tend to think zombies are used as an avatar for climate change by hollywood writers (maybe on a subconscious level, reflecting their general anxiety that the world is sitting on a knife edge).
But you know, you could name 100 exceptions to every point I made, it's just some random thoughts on the intersection of pop culture and national mood that I've had over time.
I forgot to mention that zombies are not just reflective of climate anxiety but also maybe the threat of faceless random terrorism (post 9/11).
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