Posted on 08/16/2005 1:39:57 PM PDT by jb6
Thanks.. I will copy that info and stick in a text file..
I "notepad" stuff like that and print out before hitting up used book stores and the like.. ( yard sales, garage sales..)
Civil engineers rule!!!
For reference see Peter Tompkins, "Secrets of the Great Pyramid". His interpretation of the construction mathematics is very interesting and trashes traditional British scholarship.
Have you read any books by Michael Cremo or Richard Thompson, such as "Forbidden Archeology", "Human Devolution", "Alien Identities" or "The Myseteries of the Sacred Universe"?
If not, you might want to give them a try. I have all of them.
And then there's the city that was found (IIRC) last year under a river in western India that looks to be about 9,500 years old. Well planned.
I read articles about the Russian fox taming and I don't recall that they resulted with animals that were like dogs, just tame foxes.
Have you read Cremo's next book "Human Devolution"?
A short while ago on FR someone put up a link (who the heck was it???) about wolf-dog hybrids, that a lot of people like to breed and own. It turns out that such hybrids can never be really "tamed".
You ought to try a search on it - I'll see if I saved the link, there was a lot of info on it.
People do a lot of that dog/wolf breeding here and there (there one such outfit near me) and apparently the wolf part never, ever gets really tame.
re: Your theory about forming the limestone blocks of the pyramid - I guess it's posssible. One very easy way to prove/verify the theory would be the discovery of artifacts contemporary with the construction of the pyramids INSIDE one of the blocks. If they indeed formed the blocks, it would be impossible to completely prevent contamination of the mix with tools, scraps of wood, cloth, food, etc.
I believe that's true. The dog was once a wolf but, at least in the short run, a wolf is always a wolf.
Possibly the recent "x-ray" examinations of the pyramids with neutrons will provide something of interest...
You're talking about 1st generation hybrids..
Make a serious attempt to take a group of hybrids, ( large enough group so inbreeding isn't a problem.. say, 5,000..)
Then, start breeding successive generations without re-introducing any new wolf blood..
I suggest to you, that after 100 generations, the population will be totally "domesticated" and for all practical purposes, be as tractable and trainable as any dog breed..
Starting from pure wolf strain would possibly take longer, or not, ( maybe 1,000 generations ) but the result would be the same..
Domestication..
I still want to know what motivated the first guy that ever ate an egg or an oyster.
"Gee, this just came out of a chicken's butt--I think I'll eat it!"
"Yummy, just look what's inside this hard shell--I think I'll eat it!"
I love the wide-eyed wonderment of people who confuse reality (such as a circle) with convention (360 degrees.)
I bet the author is into numerology too.
It's not inappropriate to look for magical thinking in ancient peoples.
a circle has 360 degrees and can be subdivided using 60, 30, 15, 12, etc., all fractions of the root number.Dividing a circle into six equal parts is simple enough. Also using a compass and straightedge, it's simple enough to divide it into five. Using the sixth marks, it is then simple to divide the circle into thirty parts. Bisect one of those, and sixty divisions are simple to find.
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