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Fascinating theory as to how the pyramids were built.
https://www.wimp.com/fascinating-theory-and-demonstration-on-how-the-pyramids-may-have-been-constructed/ ^

Posted on 05/13/2019 12:39:56 PM PDT by Jonty30

Could be. It makes sense.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Books/Literature; Education; History
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; corners; egypt; giza; godsgravesglyphs; megaliths; ntsa; oldkingdom; opinion; pyramid; pyramids; talking; video; worstexcerptever
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To: kaehurowing

I thought it was always “ancient alien theorists”...


41 posted on 05/13/2019 2:19:52 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: sparklite2
Reverse slinky? This is an idea, for me to poop on.

42 posted on 05/13/2019 2:31:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CJ Wolf; Swordmaker; ETL
Thanks for the pings, CJ Wolf and Swordmaker. No ping, just adding.

KEYWORDS: bobbrier; giza; greatpyramid; jeanpierrehoudin

43 posted on 05/13/2019 2:49:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: arthurus

That is really impressive. He took the very basic principle of leverage and learned to use it in numerous creative ways. It is definitely something that could be thought of and applied by nearly any culture. An extremely simple and effective technology.


44 posted on 05/13/2019 2:53:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“What would be fun to watch is a new pyramid being built by modern methods.”

Sure, give me the equivalent of the GDP of ancient Egypt for 30 years to work with and I’ll get right on it.


45 posted on 05/13/2019 3:12:09 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: arthurus

I like it. No “aliens”, just simple knowledge and a little ingenuity.

Yes, multiply the effort by the tons of stone and total mass of something like the pyramids and you still have a requirement for a huge amount of human labor, but nothing that was not doable when you could command all the labor you wanted.


46 posted on 05/13/2019 3:13:39 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

For the ancient Egyptians corvee labor was how they paid their taxes and a religious obligation.


47 posted on 05/13/2019 3:15:45 PM PDT by Reily
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To: SunkenCiv


"I left a little pyramid in your
Kum-an-Geddit."

48 posted on 05/13/2019 3:18:11 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Jonty30

Goa’uld, obviously.


49 posted on 05/13/2019 3:21:04 PM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: Jonty30

Ice Giants. Who left afterward because who would want to be an Ice Giant in Egypt?


50 posted on 05/13/2019 3:25:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: impactplayer; Jonty30
"They use 4 large C-clamps, two on each side of the stones, to form a circle - then rolled them into place."

If you didn't have cell phones you might spend a summer doing this as a kid. Kid builds a pyramid and a swimming poolwith ancient skills!

51 posted on 05/13/2019 3:32:12 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Boogieman; EQAndyBuzz

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3749013/posts?page=51#51 watch the video!


52 posted on 05/13/2019 3:35:01 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Billthedrill

There was a stone found just outside Giza that said,
“Will the last ice giant to leave, plus turn off the sphinx.”


53 posted on 05/13/2019 3:37:43 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: kaehurowing
“Some scientific scholars think it could have been aliens.”

sheesh they were importing cheap semiskilled labor centuries ago...

54 posted on 05/13/2019 3:40:24 PM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
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Another for my “Uh, no” pile:

Engineer stuns archaeology experts by rubbishing their theories about how the pyramids were built
Daily Record (UK) | January 11, 2014 | Adam Aspinall
Posted on 01/18/2014 11:21:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3113134/posts

There’s also a guy who claims that the stones were floated up inside water-filled channels. Lots of reasons why that wouldn’t work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGH93mt81BA

And a guy who claims the stones were rolled (with some attachments), a process which would add to the amount of time needed, or add greatly to the number of workers needed.

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/pyramids

And this one is basically the same old idea, but the pretense seems to be, it’s a new idea:

http://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-pyramid/

See the keywords for Jean Pierre Houdin or for Joseph Davidovits.


55 posted on 05/13/2019 3:42:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Jonty30

In the 60s Shel Silverstein had a cartoon(Playboy) of a pyramid falling from the sky. In foreground one man saying to other man, “there’s another one!”


56 posted on 05/13/2019 3:47:11 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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To: Jonty30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=ZFEjBtPOPNk


57 posted on 05/13/2019 5:25:03 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: willyd; Jonty30; erkelly

58 posted on 05/13/2019 6:00:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I knew it!

I. Just. Knew. It.


59 posted on 05/13/2019 6:04:11 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: arthurus

Now did he cut out and carve that stone or concrete block with his copper chisels.


60 posted on 05/13/2019 6:05:43 PM PDT by jetson
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