On Friday, August 24, 2012 8:48:24 PM UTC+2, RP Singh wrote:
Andrew , is it possible that you believe that you built the pyramids--
in a previous life at the age of 25 ?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:58 PM, andrew vecsey <andrew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have read that nobody really knows how they built the pyramids, as the
> very huge rocks they are built from come from many hundreds of kilometers
> away. There are people who propose that extraterrestrial help and technology
> was needed. In my opinion, just like ants can build structures that relative
> to their size are comparable to the pyramids, man was able to build the
> pyramids without needing any extraterrestrial help or technology. All man
> needed was a motive and enough time to build them. Comments and opinions
> from those interested in this topic are most welcome.
>
> A summary of my ideas:
>
> Motive was a mufti-functional structure (observing stars, a lookout tower, a
> silo, a refuge)
> Stones were moved using elephants to pull barges floating in canals with
> locks
> Stones were lifted using a system of locks
>
> A very crude animation is presented in the section of video starting at 6:20
> into the video. The video can be seen at "
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmS2rzOLxXA&list= UU9rOAPUfZe3KEja0vvFpe_A& index=61&feature=plcp
>
> The text of the short story is below:
>
> I was born in Egypt and was the chief engineer for the Pharaoh. He wanted to
> make a mufti-functional structure. First and foremost it was to be a tool to
> investigate and measure heavenly movements. It had to be a structure that
> would stand stable for thousands of years to help future generations to
> observe and study the heavens. It was to be a laboratory to examine earth
> and heaven movements. It had to endure the erosion of nature and the plunder
> and destruction of man.
>
> It was also to serve as a lookout and communications tower sufficiently high
> to see approaching armies hundreds of kilometers away. It was to provide the
> Pharaoh and his family a safe refuge whenever threatened by siege from
> enemies and a secure vault for their wealth. It was to serve as a silo for
> grain and a reservoir for water. It was to be a symbol of his lasting power
> and of his nation that built the imposing structure. Some thought he was
> just making a pretentious tombstone for himself.
>
> The project was actually a make work program. The wise Pharaoh believed that
> such a project would stimulate economic growth in the long term. It was
> hoped that such a grand project would help open the region for tourists and
> farmers for generations to come. It was my responsibility to design and
> build it.
>
> I had at my disposal the best mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. The
> site was chosen 1 km from a tributary of the Nile that had a thick and flat
> bedrock. 200,000 men worked day and night with 10,000 elephants for 70 years
> and excavated, cut, carved and moved 2.5 million 2.5 ton blocks from
> hundreds of km away and piled them up into a 140m high pyramid. They were
> divided into 4 teams. Recognition and prizes were given to the team with the
> most progress each year. 4 blocks were placed every hour, 100 blocks each
> day. They were placed into position on the pyramid, one on each of its 4
> sides, until the last blocks were raised to the top 70 years later. I was 25
> years old when I started and lived to see the pyramid's completion.
>
> First a suitable site was chosen, sufficiently high from the delta, with a
> thick and flat bed stone. A canal was dug from the tributary of the Nile to
> the site of the pyramid. The stone blocks from far away quarries along the
> Nile were floated in wooden rafts to the canal that ran 20 meters below the
> ground at the pyramid's base. Along their long journey the blocks were
> shaped and polished to precision. Then they were raised by steep steps of
> locks that emptied into a flat platform. Once the platform was walled in and
> sealed by tar, it was flooded. The base platform was a square that was 250m
> wide. This huge swimming pool got smaller as it got higher each year forming
> a pyramid structure.
>
> Each year a new level was completed. The shrinking platform was divided
> into four parts. One was a swimming pool for the people, the other was a
> pond with birds and water plants for the privileged. The 3rd was a natural
> pond that people visited like a park. The 4th was a water reservoir.
>
> Children were used to lift the water up to the top level. They climbed up to
> the top and then jumped down attached to a rope. Their weight pulled up an
> equal weight of water in a bucket. The water from the top fed the steps of
> locks that were used to float the blocks up to the top where they were moved
> toward the walls and used to build up the walls for the next layer.
>
> The structure lasted for 7,000 years despite being ravaged by man and
> nature. In the end the entire continent sank into the sea. The pyramid
> served as a tourist attraction for its entire lifetime. But its main purpose
> as tool for studying the heaven and measuring the movement of the earth with
> respect to the stars was forgotten after a few generations.
>
> --
>
>
>
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