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Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by tigereye
The evidence says no aliens, no advanced electricity, no anti gravity. The evidence says mankind built it.
Originally posted by 8311-XHT
How can you possibly make this claim when so little of the pyramid has been explored?
Originally posted by 8311-XHTAlso.. the stability and the precision of the over all structure certainly doesn't support your claim of a loose structure.
A Short Survey on the Interior of Khufu's Great Pyramid
While the SRI team did not further investigate the superstructure of Khafre's Pyramid, believing that such would be redundant after the Joint Pyramid Project, they did spend a single night using the acoustic soundings to survey a limited area of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. They took two sets of data, one from the King's Chamber and another from the antechamber leading to it. Even here, there were problems due to the blocks making up the pyramids core returning multiple waves back to the receiving equipment, therefore causing "clutter". Nevertheless, the survey did appear to reveal an anomalous echo 7.25 meters beneath the floor, about halfway between the King's and Queen's Chambers. The report prepared by the SRI team suggested the echo could represent a possible void near the point where the original pyramid plan was thought to be altered. Hence, it might simply be a space left during the change in plan, or even a large crack More recent investigations of the pyramid also show that the core of the pyramid is less solid than once thought, with areas filled with rubble or sand, that might have also affected these earlier investigations.
Most Egyptologists no longer believe that many slaves were used, and it is probable that much of the most difficult work of hauling the large blocks up ramps was probably performed using beasts of labor such as oxen. Experiments have also demonstrated that it probably took less time to build them then we originally thought. One reason is that there were probably not as many solid blocks used as we once believed. Rubble and sand were instead used to fill pockets surrounded by solid stone, in many instances.
For example, one may find in many books that Khufu's Pyramid, greatest of all in Egypt, contains an estimated 2.3 million blocks of stone weighing on average about 2.5 tons. In the past, both professional and amateur theorists assume that the pyramids are composed of generic blocks of this weight. Next, they set about solving the problem of how the builders could have possibly raised and set so many huge blocks. But upon closer examination, few of these traditional assumptions are really valid. In fact, recent analysis has suggested that Khufu's Pyramid has far fewer large blocks than originally supposed, and those who maintain that the blocks are more or less uniformly 2.5 tons are simply wrong.
SNIP
At first glance, the sides of the Giza Pyramids, stripped of most of their smooth outer casing during the Middle Ages, look like regular steps. These are actually the courses of backing stones, so called because they once filled in the space between the pyramid core and outer casing. However, a closer examination reveals that the steps are not at all regular. In fact, rather than regular, modular, squared blocks of stone neatly stocked, there is considerable "slop factor", even in the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
Not only are the backing stones irregular, they are also progressively smaller toward the top. Behind the backing stones, the core stones are actually even more irregular. We know this because, in the 1830s, Howard Vyse blasted a hole in the center of the south side of Khufu's's Pyramid while looking for another entrance. This wound in the pyramid can still be seen today, and in it, we can see how the builders dumped great globs of mortar and stone rubble in wide spaces between the stones. Here, there are big blocks, small chunks of rock, wedge shaped pieces, oval and trapezoidal pieces, as well as smaller stone fragments jammed into spaces as as wide as 22 centimeters between larger blocks.
Still, the pyramid is not solid stone: either to increase its stability or reduce its cost, the interior of this pyramid contains irregular, sand-filled voids.
Originally posted by 8311-XHT
It just so happens that the Egyptians and Ed Leeskalnin's work indicated they used electrogravitics as well.
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by 8311-XHT
It just so happens that the Egyptians and Ed Leeskalnin's work indicated they used electrogravitics as well.
The Egyptians used muscle and lubricants.
As far as Leedskalnin and the Coral Castle, it's only electrogravitics if you call electromechanics electrogravitics.
Leedskalnin used an electric winch mounted on a wooden tripod he toted around in his pickup.
Harte
Originally posted by Harte
FYI, there exists no consensus on the number of stones in the GP, and in fact it makes very little sense to even talk about it as if it were gemane to anything at all.
See, the core stones of the Great Pyramid are basically thrown together in a hodgepodge fashion and appear to mainly be uncut. Sizes vary for these normally unseen stones from football-sized up to around dining room table sized.
The estimates you've read about assume all stones are sized at about the average of the sizes we see on the exterior today (those stones were originally covered as well, by very fine white limestone from Tura - you can still see some of these on Khafre's pyramid next door.)
The calculated estimate you're using - 2-1/2 million stones, IIRC - makes that assumption and goes from there based entirely on the formula for the volume of a square pyramid (four equal sides.)
That's already bogus on it's face because we know there is a small hill inside there that the Great Pyramid was constructed around and on top of.
Between the hill, the huge variety in sizes observed in the inner core (where the structure has been blown open in the past with black powder,) and the large voids between the exterior and inner core that have been filled with sand, rubble and extra mortar (again, we can see this where it was blown open,) it makes very little sense to claim anything at all about how many stones per hour or whatnot had to have been laid in the pyramid.
Your "one stone every five minutes" is therefore a meaningless claim.
Harte
Originally posted by TWISTEDWORDS
Everyone always wants to know how they were built? It is rather simple how they built the pyramids actually. All they did was construct a wooden crane system on top of the pyramid as they built it going higher. The wooden crane had a focal point and on one side you have it tied to oxen that pull the massive blocks upwards. It is the same thing we do today with modern cranes. Instead of a machine doing the pulling through the pulleys you use oxen and to pull the ropes through the pulleys. They had wooden pulleys in those days as they have been found. Something like this site shows.
Pulleys used for pyramids
Originally posted by 8311-XHT
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by 8311-XHT
It just so happens that the Egyptians and Ed Leeskalnin's work indicated they used electrogravitics as well.
The Egyptians used muscle and lubricants.
As far as Leedskalnin and the Coral Castle, it's only electrogravitics if you call electromechanics electrogravitics.
Leedskalnin used an electric winch mounted on a wooden tripod he toted around in his pickup.
Harte
So then why did he have pictures of him lifting stones with the winch but never let anyone watch him work? You've been hoodwinked... as they say..
The stones Ed moved had a high crystal content just like the stones in the pyramid of Gixa..
Originally posted by Barcs
I was using the 2.3 million estimate that is used by most sources I've read about the great pyramid.
Originally posted by Barcs
Ok, so let's pretend the Great pyramid only needed 1 million blocks. That would mean more than half the volume is occupied by empty space, this hill, or sand. I highly doubt that it true but I'm doing it to give you the benefit of the doubt, because it doesn't matter that much overall.
Originally posted by Barcs
With 1 million blocks, the construction would have needed just about 1 block every 10 minutes. That still defies logic when the limestone blocks take several hours to make, plus they were hauling granite from 400 miles away.
Originally posted by TWISTEDWORDS
Everyone always wants to know how they were built? It is rather simple how they built the pyramids actually. All they did was construct a wooden crane system on top of the pyramid as they built it going higher. The wooden crane had a focal point and on one side you have it tied to oxen that pull the massive blocks upwards. It is the same thing we do today with modern cranes. Instead of a machine doing the pulling through the pulleys you use oxen and to pull the ropes through the pulleys. They had wooden pulleys in those days as they have been found. Something like this site shows.
Pulleys used for pyramids
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by tigereye
You are asking a question that has an answer. Sure, it's theory. Now it doesn't contradict, and I fail to see ant stumbling. But gravity is a theory also, as well as evolution, and many other facts. We simply know.
The evidence says no aliens, no advanced electricity, no anti gravity. The evidence says mankind built it.
That's why I'm negative to your views. They fly in the face of common sense.
You are literally saying, "I do not know, therefore miracle/god/aliens/impossible imagination... etc etc.
It comes down to this. Nothing says that they couldn't have been done by hand with simple tools. So why doubt this?edit on 19-2-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
The actual polishing of these surfaces was probably done with ordinary, quartz-rich sand of which Egypt abounds
The granite out of which this chamber is constructed is an igneous rock containing silicon quartz crystals. This particular granite, which was brought from the Aswan Quarries, contains 55% or more quartz crystal.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by 8311-XHT
Crystals bend photon paths. They don't do anything else really special.edit on 20-2-2012 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
The rarefaction wave creates an observable negative pressure wave in the wastegate line, resulting in cavitation in the subterranean chamber. Cavitation is the near instantaneous vaporization (gassing) of fluids combined with near instantaneous collapse of a majority of the gas back to liquid form. This violent action results in loud sounds and chipping or flaking of surface materials11. There is chipping on the ceiling that corresponds to cavitation damage