Egypt-PyramidRobot

AP Wire .. live feed | September 13, 2002 | DONNA BRYSON

[NYer]

If all goes according to plan, television viewers and researchers will discover what's behind a door at the end of the shaft at the same moment.

.... Jimmy Hoffa!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If all goes according to plan, television viewers and researchers will discover what's behind a door at the end of the shaft at the same moment.

Let me guess - Whorealdo Rivera is hosting, right?

[El Sordo]

"Hawass says the robot may drill a hole for a tiny camera and a light to pass through."

Won't it be amusing if the robot unleashes a trapped demon or some other ancient evil that the Egyptians sealed away thousands of years ago?

On second thought, I should stop watching so much Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[RightWhale]

They aren't talking to the German fellow who did this very stunt originally several years ago. Why not?

[The Wizard]

they have compeletly dissed the Ger4man guy who did all the work.....this is what they will find out

[RightWhale]

It is a mystery, but the giant cogs that line the main shaft indicate that some huge machinery was once running up and down.

[stanz]

They will find nothing. The shafts weren't meant to be burial chambers or niches for hidden grave goods. Anything that was worth anything was robbed in antiquity.

[LibWhacker]

Has anybody tried to holler up the shaft, "Open sesame?"

[Cachelot]

they have compeletly dissed the Ger4man guy who did all the work

Oh yes, the Pyramid Powerplant Theory. You should be able to sell it to Gray Davis.

Me, I'd say crack open the Aswan dam, then just wait until things settle down. Should be a breeze to see what might have been in there. Plus, one gets rid of a few of those 9-11 street dancers.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Let me guess - Whorealdo Rivera is hosting, right?

Al Capone is behind the door?

[blam]

"They aren't talking to the German fellow who did this very stunt originally several years ago. Why not?"

I remember seeing this, don't know. I would guess it has to do with National Geographic.

"The shaft rises over rough stone at a 40-degree angle from the chamber and ends at a door adorned with two brass handles."

My satellite TV dish is installed at a 40 degree angle, could this be a clue? (ahem)

[El Sordo]

Giant cogs?

[glorgau]

$250K robot?!?!

Couldn't they have just put a helmet cam on a rat?

[RightWhale]

Saw a picture, a photograph, once in an old book. View right up the steep main shaft with little worker guys climbing over the cogs. Don't see that view much anymore, don't know why not. It looks like the bed for a cog-driven machine, for what purpose who knows. Maybe a giant Tesla generator, maybe a bucket for loading pyramid stones to the upper level, who knows.

As a guess, the cogs would probably have been faced with iron, and the iron would have been stripped out when the need was done. The machine itself is also long gone.

[Quix]

No, a mafia friend insists he was buried in the concrete foundation of a big federal building.

[El Sordo]

I thought that the shaft in question was only like 6" square.

Are you referring to the shaft up to the King's Chamber?

[RightWhale]

The main shaft, not the little breather hole in this article. Originally they didn't know where the main shaft was and came in directly through the wall, brute force method. Then they came across the shaft inside the structure. The original exit of the main shaft had been blocked and covered so you couldn't see where it was.

We still don't know why any of this.

[El Sordo]

It seems reasonable that the entrance would have been sealed once the pyramid served its function. But then that does lead my to beleive that they should have found more indication of the pyramid having served as a tomb.

I understand that iron was quite possibly the single scarcest and most valuable metal in those days. That it came from iron meteroites (the Egyptian name supposedly menat 'metal form heaven') and was in extremely short supply. I'd be rather skeptical that it was used in any industrial manner.

The simplest explanation may be that they were steps or some other attempt at footholds.

[RightWhale]

iron was quite possibly the single scarcest and most valuable metal in those days

They might have used bronze. Not quite a sturdy as iron, but still very strong.

Whether the pyramid was ever a tomb: Doesn't seem so.

The cogs are just what they looked like to me, nobody ever suggested to me that they are cogs. If they were cogs, they would have had a machine associated, a big one. I don't buy the radio or power station idea, but I think the machine, if there was one, was part of a winch system used to raise stone blocks to upper levels.