Posted on 05/21/2007 10:44:47 AM PDT by mission9
The fact that some pyramids were not completed, and that the construction program, as a whole, was terminated, can readily be understood now. Obviously Pharaoh was finally forced to close the Egyptian borders to little men, aka. illegal aliens, who left their home planet in search of a better life on Earth.
No worse than today’s McMansions being built with faux rock.
The first give-away is describing the placement of concrete as ‘pouring cement’.
Clams can talk!!!
The mud was only for the mobile homes.
Wonder why they poured those unfinished blocks into the quarry?
I’ve always wondered what effects thermal expansion, contraction, not to mention a few seismic and millenia of wind loading might effect the joinery. Diffusion, corrosion, and creep from reshaped structures within the materials themselves might have led much more to the apparant tight fit than all the other forces combined.
Perhaps what is more impressive is that the stonework didn’t naturally deteriorate by the same expansion/contraction, inblown sand forces over the millenia.
And to put old chariots up on out in the front yard?.........
One of these days I'm going to by God go over there and stick a human hair in between a couple of those rocks and look to see who's interested.
Maybe the Pharoahs were the only ones that could afford to hire a contractor.
Government pork boondogles in 3000 BC?..........
“Wonder why they poured those unfinished blocks into the quarry?”
Practice.
I don’t lnow much, but one thing I do know is that a people just barely out of the stone age did not design and build the Great Pyraimds. That I know.
Sigh,..I read their white paper (the yellow one) found here: http://www.materials.drexel.edu/Pyramids/GeopolymerWhitePaper-Barsoum.pdf
The paper is intended to promote geopolymers en lieu of portland cement in the concrete mixing industry.
A good chunk on the paper emphasized the amount of CO2 which is released from making PC and casting PC concrete, then emphasizing the amount of greenhouse gases created from the use of concrete.
The white paper stresses the research effort in the past had been unfunded, but it is now seeking funds and states, “According to a United Nations Task Force “Science, technology and innovation underpin every one of the Millennium Development Goals” such as health, education, and deliverence from poverty. The Ancient Egyptians used a unique chemistry to create what ranks as one of humankind’s greatest architectural achievements. Today, once this chemistry is rediscovered, we believe it can be used to combat the lack of adequate housing in much of the developing world.
Previously in the same white paper, “.....We are now seeking funding to accelerate the project, reach our objective and commence a worldwide campaign to disseminate our knowledge, especially to Sub-Saharan Africa and other places where robust and sustainable shelter is lacking.”
IMHO, there is more effort to search for worldly advancement by appealing to political deep pockets than to sincere science.
That's for sure and I don't know who would call the egyptians who built the pyramids as "right out of the stone age".
“right out of the stone age”.
right = barely
No liquid water.
Which begs a question;
NASA has sent numerous probes to Mars yet none have been sent to the polar ice caps to extract samples. Why not?
I'll bet there are plenty of microbes frozen in the ice there.
My guess is that microbes being microbes if there are any they wouldn't be hard to find no matter where you landed.
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