Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids, school director says

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[Ron Jeremy]

There is no shortage of artwork from prehistoric times showing clearly recognizable dinosaur types and that includes Ica stones, Amerind petroglyphs and other categories of things, and there might have been a handfull of dinosaur holdouts after the flood... But the basic reality is that dinosaurs lived before the flood and the pyramids were built after it.

We draw dinosaurs now, yet we don't live with them. If 5,000 years from now people see our movies with dinosaurs, should they use that at proof that we lived with them?

[boop]

"The proof could easily be found in the writings of the times, or in the hieroglyphics. But mostly, the proof would be more apparent in the art of the times."

I dunno. Dinosaurs had flat feet so their writings are rather primitive.

[MHGinTN]

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[jimmyray]

And we draw pictures of them now, despite the fact that we don't live with them. Why then would the fact that people 3,000 years ago drew dinosaurs mean that they lived with them?

One possible explanation is that they frew pictures of what they actually observed. We draw pictures of mental recreations based on complete skeletons we have dug out of solid rock. There is no evidence that they had such advanced Paleontological skillst, much less the necessary interest, tools and time.

[jimmyray]

or drew, for that matter...

[count-your-change]

I don’t suppose finding the quarries from whence came those blocks means anything. or the tool marks of the workings on those stones?
“liquid bonding agent”? Maybe epoxy? Redi-mix from Home Depot? Alien technology? Dino dung?

[doc1019]

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[Tanniker Smith]

Everyone knows that the pyramids were landing pads for alien spaceships!

[MHGinTN]

Carving out rock, turning it into powder and transporting it to the construction site, then reconstituting it ... gee, we do that even today! The Romans has concrete technology, why not the Egyptians a form of similar methodology?

I'm checking in occasionally to see how this discussion goes. Have a nice evening.

[adorno]

Dinosaurs had flat feet so their writings are rather primitive.

Primitive may be right. But that still didn't stop them from leaving plenty of "feet" tracks in many parts of the world, enough to let the world know "Dino was here". But the question is, have there been any "feet" tracks from about the same time as the ancient civilizations?

[Inyo-Mono]

...,Amerind petroglyphs and other categories of things,...

[metmom]

And we draw pictures of them now, despite the fact that we don't live with them. Why then would the fact that people 3,000 years ago drew dinosaurs mean that they lived with them?

We draw pictures of them because of our history and legends, not because we lived with them. Where did THEY get the ideas for them? It had to start somewhere.

Why do the old accounts of dragons seem to fit with what we know of them from fossil remains? There isn't any indication that people would have know about fossil remains and their implications 3,000 or so years ago.

Why do so many cultures that were so isolated from each other have the same accounts of dragons?

Just curious....

[count-your-change]

The Romans used a kind of volcanic dust to make their mortar but none such is known for the Egyptians.
If the Egyptians could carve out blocks why and how would they crush them to dust only to reform them later?
There is plenty of evidence of ancient stone cutting technology but where is there any evidence of large scale stone crushing, form building, and concrete mixing and pouring equipment in ancient Egypt?
To anyone who has worked with concrete the notion of Egyptians forming up and pouring concrete for their structures is absurd. But totally so.

[tang-soo]

Does it? I would have thought it merely illustrates that unlike the Earth, the moon has little or nothing in the way of atmosphere… and dust is usually generated as a result of particles which combine as they are buffeted around by the movement of atmospheric molecules. Also, the moon’s gravity is two thirds less than it is on Earth… which in turn means that dust is practically weightless, and therefore doesn’t settle. But of course there is little point in saying so, because as far as Fenech in concerned, it is the word of God alone that counts.

No. Dust on the moon is caused by radiation breakdown. Before Apollo 11, claims of 5-10 billion year old solar system implied a prediction of several hundred feet of dust based upon the known rate of this breakdown. Hence the trashcan lid - sized pads on that lunar module. Surprise was that fractions of an inch was found. Back to the drawing board.

[ApplegateRanch]

If 5,000 years from now people see our movies with dinosaurs, should they use that at proof that we lived with them?

In the persona of Eric Van Danigan's umpteenth great grandson...

Never heard of "documentaries"?

Next you'll deny that Godzilla didn't destroy Tokyo!

And that Gamera retracted his head & legs into his shell, spouted flames, and flew to Mars.

You think Mothman or Spider Man or Tommyknockers aren't real, either?

I've seen the ruins of the cities of the ancients, and nothing else can explain...

[csense]

Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan?

[LiteKeeper]

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[tang-soo]

Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan?

International Tang Soo Do Federation - Monroeville, Pa. Master C.S. Kim.

My son is a 2nd degree black belt and I took lessons for a couple of years and was doing well until I fell on my shoulder. 8 years later and it still bothers me - so that was the end of my martial arts career.

When i signed up with FR (started as a lurker in 97 or 98), I adopted the method of greeting (Tang-Soo!) as my FR handle. I'd change it but don't want to loose my standing with FR by starting a new account.

[wendy1946]

That one's questionable; some of the others aren't. Some of the stegosaur glyphs like the one at Agawa Rock close to Lake Superior are unmistakable, as are also some of the sauropod glyphs in Utah.

No modern animal has dorsal spikes.

[wendy1946]

You only have to think about this one a tiny bit to comprehend it. IF you were to try to carve those kinds of stones, your rock quarry would very quickly turn into a pile of rubble from the 80% of the stone which you would waste.

That is, even if you had the infinite manpower and time to do it.