How DARE you question me, mortal!
Posted on 09/04/2004 10:50:57 AM PDT by wagglebee
Oh la la! Zey are very large at the bottom and pointy on ze top!
.....he comes off as a pompous jerk....
I cut him some slack. He is the official custodian of ancient mankind's greatest architectural, geodesic, astroomical, mathematical achievement. Letting every academic Thomas, Richard and Hanri deface the place would be unforgivable. The job in question needs to have more science brought to bear before the destructive rockwork begins.
He wakes every day and sees the noseless Sphinx, French work of a bygone era. I'd be wary of the French regardless of their credentials. A French Emperor defaced the Sphinx.
Stargate ping? :-)
Egyptians? Really? Instead of whom? Olmecs? Peace Corps volunteers? Space aliens?
He is quite good at what he does. Limited and he eats a LOT (most Jaffa do), but good.
I believe the Pyramids are a 3D Origami folded version of an earlier French/Gaul surrender flag.
North European Druids. Refugees from Atlantis. Nubians. No, Hawass goes against the flow and asserts it was Egyptians.
It takes guts for an Egyptian to assert, in Egypt, that the Egyptian pyramids were built by Egyptians. My hat's off to Mr. Hawass!
From everything I've ever read about Hawass, he comes off as a pompous jerk.
Hawass worships himself. Haven't you seen the pompous, self-serving b@$tard slime his way through his well-rehearsed "discoveries" on National Geographic specials?
Egypt is terminally stupid for putting such a phony in charge of their priceless antiquities...
That is actually incorrect. Napoleon had nothing to do with the damage to the Sphinx.
from http://www.napoleonseries.org/faq/sphinx.cfm
"Over the centuries the Great Sphinx has suffered severely from weathering...Man has been responsible for additional mutilation. In 1380 A.D. the Sphinx fell victim to the iconoclastic ardor of a fanatical Muslim ruler, who caused deplorable injuries to the head. Then the figure was used as a target for the guns of the Mamluks."
This accusation is most often leveled at Napoleon Bonaparte, who is said to have shot the nose off the Sphinx -a claim that is manifestly incorrect, not only because earlier western representations of the Sphinx depict it with its nose missing (for example, the drawing published in 1755 by Frederick Norden) but also because medieval Arabic texts attribute the damage to a Muslim fanatic in the fourteenth century CE."
Did the mechanical engineer check with chemical engineers to verify the existence or an explanation of their absence, of chemical residues from such an operation?
Did he detail the chemicals, and how much would have been required? Explain where they came from or how they were produced? How they were transported? What supporting infrastructure would have been required?
What was the 'power' used for; how was it transmitted/carried/stored; where are the devices it powered?
Why are there no records of this?
Not asking you to explain it; just wondering if his book did?
If he did, was it at all plausible; or, just an 'interesting read'?
What was the purpose of the power plant?
A video for the engineer in your life that has everything. And I got to tell you, I think this guy is onto something.
http://theforgottentechnology.com/Page1.htm
Look out for the Doughnuts though Murry!
The damned things were the earliest landfills, that's why the lower layers have no access.
The symbiote will take care of them. Along with that questionable burrito T'ealc ingested during the episode.
I've gotta be dyslexic.. I read that as "Apophis is not a dog."
I'm going to go increase my caffiene intake now.
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