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Mystery Of 'Chirping' Pyramid Decoded
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| 12-14-2004
| Philip Ball
Posted on 12/17/2004 2:43:44 PM PST by blam
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:43:44 PM PST
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:45:26 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
The statue of Memnon in Egypt also moaned for millenia when the sun hit it in the morning. After repairs in the late 19th Century, Memnon sang no more.
Schiller wrote a poem about it, and Schubert set it to music in the 1820's.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:46:17 PM PST
by
Publius
To: blam
Chichén Itzá Way cool place. I climbed the big pyramid. Easy going up, however, much more nerve racking during the descent.
To: blam
One has to wonder how a civilization that created calendars that could predict celestial events with an accuracy that far exceeded anything from Europe but never figured out how to weigh a bag of corn built these things.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:48:04 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: blam
I climbed that pyramid! Fascinating equinox too!
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:49:08 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: blam
>Mystery Of '
Chirping' Pyramid Decoded
|
No highs and no lows? That chirping temple of yours just might be a Bose . . .
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To: blam
It was an accident. The intent was that you clap your hands, and sounds were made that would make illegals return to Mexico.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:49:53 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: RadioAstronomer
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:51:10 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: blam
Change the battery in that smoke detector bump.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:52:09 PM PST
by
asgardshill
("We march by day and read Xenophon by night.")
To: blam
Declercq's calculations show that, although there is evidence that they engineered the pyramid to produce sounds... I am so tired of these "experts" that find some accident of construction and assume a technology and a knowledge base in primitive people who are scarcely able to feed their own population and who abandoned entire cities when farming became easier elsewhere.
These people had no mathematics, no trig, no algebra, yet they are acoustical engineering buildings? I'd like to see Declercq do these calculations in the math available to the builders.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:52:12 PM PST
by
konaice
To: konaice
>>>>I am so tired of these "experts" that find some accident of construction and assume a technology and a knowledge base in primitive people who are scarcely able to feed their own population and who abandoned entire cities when farming became easier elsewhere.
I don't find it that far of a reach to assume the sound may have been intentional when these people purposely designed the pyramids for the equinox to 'bring a good harvest'.
Ever see it? It is IMPRESSIVE!
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:57:08 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Calpernia
To: Calpernia
I don't find it that far of a reach to assume the sound may have been intentional when these people purposely designed the pyramids for the equinox to 'bring a good harvest'. Ever see it? It is IMPRESSIVE!
Aligning a building to predict the equinox is as complex as pounding a few stakes in the ground at the right time of year.
As for bringing a good harvest, that was assured by tearing the still beating heart out of young girls.
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:03:40 PM PST
by
konaice
To: blam
Thanks for the post. Isn't it funny, that we think we are the most enlightened people on earth, after a whole, maybe, 200 years of modern development. We are still learning, of many things we don't understand, about those that came before us.
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:06:06 PM PST
by
wizr
(Freedom ain't free.)
To: blam
a handclap by a staircase leading down to the Menik Ganga river produces an echo in response that resembles the quacking of ducks.
AFLAIK ?
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:07:47 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: RadioAstronomer
LOL My wife went up a little way with me and then looked back. I have pictures of her waving from the ground that I took from the top.
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:08:26 PM PST
by
OSHA
(birthday tag line removed in respect for mother and child.)
To: Calpernia
I climbed it too! Went there when I was in high school in 1972.
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:18:06 PM PST
by
Sender
(Team Infidel USA)
To: konaice
Wait a minute...the Mayans had no math? They had an incredibly accurate calendar and extensive knowledge of astronomy. They were pretty darn smart. They knew many things that we don't today.
However I doubt that the sound of hand-clapping echoes on the stairs was one of their big priorities. But by all means, let's have a team of highly-paid, overeducated scientists go around the world clapping on the stairways of the ancients to see if it sounds like a bird or a duck. Now that's science baby!
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:23:23 PM PST
by
Sender
(Team Infidel USA)
To: OSHA
I have pictures of her waving from the ground that I took from the top.My hubby has a number of pictures like this from Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Palenque....I also have pictures of him on top of various Mayan pyramids with me on the ground. Once I took a look at those steps, uh nyuh, no way.
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:23:33 PM PST
by
Catspaw
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