Posted on 05/01/2008 11:04:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
To get concrete, you must burn limestoneOh, burn. Uh, no. There are many ways to make concrete.
Occam’s razor prevails...
They are poured cement.
Case closed.
Around the time I read Davidovits’ book (20 or so years ago) I saw a documentary on gold mining in Brazil. The miners lugged 40 pound bags of soil, rock, and whatnot out of their claims, climbing ladders, and processed these where that could reasonably be done. The claims were something like 8 feet on a side, adjacent to one another, with nothing but common paths in and out of the giant pit. These miners, over 20 years, took what had a been a hill and — 40 pounds at a time — turned it into a hole deeper than a concave reflection of the vanished hill.
;’) You forgot the “airplane” and “helicopter” hieroglyphs.
Thanks.
Who knew Bill even *had* a cell phone? ;’)
Like most of the world, You don’t know the difference between cement and concrete. No person from New York or points east knows he has been wrong his whole life for confusing the two. Every American reporter except those for Engineering News Record, ignorantly calls concrete cement.
Concrete is made from cement and various sized aggregates from very small..... sand to larger gravel.
There are two common types of concrete, portland cement and asphalt.
Portland Cement is the gray sintered powder made from limestone and used with water and aggregates to make concrete. The concrete takes 28 days to reach near full strength and when reinforced with steel is a primary structural building material. It has zero flexibility unless reinforced with steel but has exceptional compressive strength.
Asphaltum or bitumen heated and then mixed with aggregates of various sizes is called asphalt concrete and is used for roads and parking lots. It has good flexibility and compressive strength. The flex makes it good for roads.
Lastly, Portland cement mixed with sand is mortar. Mortar is used by masons to build brick or block or stne wall.
In one of the pyramids there is also a very excellent glyph of the Stargate as appeared in the movie and TV shows.
post #5 suggest (humorously) that aliens are the builders.
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