New Scans of the Great Pyramid Confirm Major Discovery Inside

The Archaeologist ^ | November 30, 2021 | Ivan Petrievic, Curiosmos

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yIKE!

[Fai Mao]

My wife was offered a scholarship and stipend b UT Austin and Berkeley. It was either Austin or Bezerkley. I used my Native American ancestry to finagle my way into grad school there for the MLIS.

[SunkenCiv]

The Egyptians used them to keep their razors sharp.

[higgmeister]

I understood from somewhere that those voids had contained sand while the Pyramid was being built to keep the entrance open and when they closed the Pyramid after the burial, the sand was allowed to pour out which enabled counter weighted doors to close.   Was that just a theory?   If so, it seems like a good one.

[atc23]

Very interesting read. Creating food with VLF and ELF fields - an agricultural supercharger.

[SunkenCiv]

Never heard that one. Exterior doors were mostly closed from inside. The one at ground level (see the link below) was sealed from outside.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3358627/posts

[telescope115]

All kidding aside (for me, anyway), The article about the Great Pyramid being a pump is intriguing. My only experience with pumps has been to replace two sump pumps in my basement, but the author of the article certainly puts a realistic argument out there showing how it could’ve happened.

It still leaves a lot of questions, like what really is in that “void”,anyway?

[Sequoyah101]

So many things I shouldn’t say since I can see it bothers you. We all make mistakes or have to play the hand we are dealt.

[SunkenCiv]

Sorry, but the pump idea is like the Giza Power Plant idea — it’s imaginative because it’s imaginary.

(David Lipovitch’ reply)
https://www.quora.com/Ancient-Egypt-Various-sources-claim-that-the-Great-Pyramid-of-Giza-was-a-water-pump-and-theyre-pretty-convincing-yet-the-theory-seems-to-be-ignored-by-mainstream-historians-Why

[snip] What are these convincing sources? Mainstream historians ignore these claims because they are nonsense. Why would the ancient Egyptians living on the securest and most reliable source of fresh-waster in the ancient Near East (ANE) with sufficient water to build one of the largest populations in the ANE and still produce surplus grain for trade need to build a water pump that was miles from a major population centre of the day and that would have required a vast amount of resources to construct? In modern terms this would be tantamount to building a massive pumping station and pipeline in the high arctic to provide freshwater to Toronto sitting on Lake Ontario. [/snip]

[’Civ resumes] A few years back there was a guy who claimed that water was used to raise stones to construct the Great Pyramid, that the stones arrived at a lock at the base, then, thanks to being built into a buoyant structure, floated to the top of a watertight tube, then were slid onto the dry working area, were removed from the buoyant shell, and slid into place. This is also something that “would work” apart from requiring far more work and more laborers than just pulling the stones with brute force, requiring engineering that probably wasn’t available, and, of course, a power source to keep the water standing in a tube, and an explanation for why the Egyptians weren’t still working on the project, since it would require far more time.

The Giza Power Plant idea is that the Great Pyramid generated electricity to run power tools used to build, uh, the Great Pyramid. No trace of any abandoned wiring, worn out high-speed saws and drills, ancient power tools, or ancient testimony, exists.

[SunkenCiv]

More about the pump idea:

https://atlantipedia.ie/samples/tag/john-cadman/

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] A typical energy efficiency is 60%, but up to 80% is possible. This should not be confused with the volumetric efficiency, which relates the volume of water delivered to total water taken from the source. The portion of water available at the delivery pipe will be reduced by the ratio of the delivery head to the supply head. Thus if the source is 2 meters above the ram and the water is lifted to 10 meters above the ram, only 20% of the supplied water can be available, the other 80% being spilled via the waste valve. These ratios assume 100% energy efficiency. Actual water delivered will be further reduced by the energy efficiency factor. In the above example, if the energy efficiency is 70%, the water delivered will be 70% of 20%, i.e. 14%. Assuming a 2-to-1 supply-head-to-delivery-head ratio and 70% efficiency, the delivered water would be 70% of 50%, i.e. 35%. Very high ratios of delivery to supply head usually result in lowered energy efficiency. Suppliers of rams often provide tables giving expected volume ratios based on actual tests. [/snip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram#Efficiency

[ShadowAce]

I thoroughly enjoyed all of those games when I was a kid.

[bert]

The cavity is an engineering structural design to save materials

[MHGinTN]

I still re-watch his once per year presentation on the resurrection. That ‘old coot’ had a special gift.

[telescope115]

WhenI was much younger, say 50 years younger, there were books out about
“Pyramid Power” and how it could change my life- make me feel better physically, even make my razors stay sharp longer!
I played around with that a little, hoping it would make me hear better, at least.
The only money I lost was a few bucks for cheap paperbacks, so it wasn’t a big deal.
Also biorhythm cycles, but that’s another story!🙂

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I read about pyramid power when I was young and impressionable, discovered spandex girls’ exercise shows with pyramid images in the background, and, uh, what were we talking about? ;^)

[dfwgator]

I had read
Somewhere in a book
They improve all your food and your wine, it said
That everything you grow in your garden
Would taste pretty fine, instead
All I ever get is a pain in the neck
And a yap-yap-yap-yap-yap-yap-yap-yap

[telescope115]

Ah, youth, LOL!

[JohnnyP]

Gene Scott and his “Pony Girls”

[SunkenCiv]

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