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Originally posted by PhoenixOD
4 things
1 - Brute force
2 - Persistence
3 - Lots of time
4 - Skill
Humans are amazing , something being very difficult has never stopped us.
If Humans are THAT amazing, why can't we build these things, bigger, more complex, and faster now...and at LEAST 4500 years later?
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by MysterX
Don't believe everything you hear on history channel documentaries about us not being capable of such feat's. They just say that to make things sound more interesting.
But don't you think we should at least consider alternative explanations and ask some more questions before irrevocably subscribing to existing hypotheses?
Originally posted by MysterX
If Humans are THAT amazing, why can't we build these things, bigger, more complex, and faster now...and at LEAST 4500 years later?
We can't even build a replica a 1/4 size of the orginal.
Either Ancient humans were in possession of technologies and building techniques far superior to ours
or there has to be another explaination, because as it stands right now, humanity was more advanced 4000 - 5000 years ago, at least in construction methods (if we stick to modern dating theories) than we are today.
Originally posted by bastion
Please could you provide a link to engineers claiming they couldn't achieve the same accuracy.
Not saying they're wrong, but I'm a Mathematician and see no reason why they couldn't be built with the maths they had at the time, in fact most of their maths was far more advanced than that required to plan out these shapes. It'd take me an hour at most to plot one using their maths with current tech, but a few days/weeks doing it all longhand. A long as the 'bricks' are the same size and 'instep' of one layer ontop of the other remains constant, you have a pyramid.
My suspicion is they may have fallen foul to the false idea pyramids were built using Phi and Pi as references.
That's not to say that these aren't absolutely amazing examples buildings that should inspire awe though.
edit on 26-6-2013 by bastion because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by LUXUS
therefore Phi is incorporated in the design ie 5/3 = Phi
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by jeep3r
No. This is ever the slightest hint of anything other than good old human hard work conducted over a very long period of time. There's no evidence of ANY high tech or alternative tech. There is no evidence of anything that doesn't fit the period these structures were made in. No other worldly tools , no unknown materials, nothing.
Just wishing there was another reason is not enough reason to jump to crazy made up ideas.
Originally posted by hellobruce
Originally posted by LUXUS
therefore Phi is incorporated in the design ie 5/3 = Phi
Wrong actually, Phi = 1.618033988749895
5/3 = 1.666666666666667