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reply to post by winofiend
They were not stupid, but they were also living in a time where if you had a problem, you developed novel ways to over come it. You didn't throw your hands in the air and go "Naww, that's stupid. I can't do that. I'm going to the pub." - they had nasty people with whips and stuff saying "Yes you are. Go on, it's not that hard." and thinkers with the ability to think laterally would devise ways to achieve the impossible.
zerbot565
i was under the impression the stones where "cast" onsite with molds ,
thats why the joints are so tight ,
easier to carry water and
plaster then 2 ton elements ,
For one, the construction of the pyramid has baffled man for thousands of years.
our explanation makes literally no sense, because stones HALF THE SIZE of the current ones could have been used, and it likely still would have stood the test of time.
GEmersonBiggins
I respectfully disagree. I don't build scyscrapers for a living, but I know enough to understand the feat. First of all, scientists and engineers HAVE tried building pyramids, on a much smaller scale I might add. They failed.
NOVA: In your extensive work and research at Giza have you ever once questioned whether humans built the Pyramids?
Mark Lehner: No. But have I ever questioned whether they had divine or super-intelligent inspiration? I first went to Egypt in 1972 and ended up living there 13 years. I was imbued with ideas of Atlantis and Edgar Cayce and so on. So I went over, starting from that point of view, but everything I saw told me, day by day, year by year, that they were very human and the marks of humanity are everywhere on them.
I don't care how many times you can whip a hundred human beings to lift a 2.5 ton block of stone, there is no way in hell, considering the primitive tools used back then, they could lift these stones 2,3,8,12 or 14 stories.
abacus10
The evidence overwhelmingly fits perfectly the one machine that could have lifted it, a machine reinvented by the German Count Ferdinand in 1874, long before the advent of manmade fibres and which was capable of lifting ltierally HUNDREDS of tons of solid marble and steel in a single, effortless yank in seconds.