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- From: gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: Re: Nov 3rd NOVA on pyramids
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.155208.19545@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:52:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.082853.6382@reed.edu> <1992Nov12.182544.5475@spectrum.xerox.com>
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- In article <1992Nov12.182544.5475@spectrum.xerox.com> chris@eso.mc.xerox.com writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.184249.6310@digi.lonestar.org> gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
- >>found out the alignment had gotten off? My suspicion is that given the
- >>most modern equipment and technology and unlimited amounts of money we still
- >>couldn't rebuild the Great Pyramid. The blocks wouldn't match and the
- >>interior passages wouldn't link up. It would be a fiasco, or rather it
- >>would be a patchwork of countless repairs and cosmetic coverups of
- >>construction blunders.
- >
- >Oh come off it. If I can singlehandedly lay out 100 feet of 20' wide
- >driveway (plus a perpendicular turnaround), with all corners at 90
- >degrees, using nothing but a bunch of pointy sticks and two strings
- >of known length (ok, I had a hammer, too), in about 60 minutes, it
- >would be a good bet that a team of Egyptians could have done the same. Maybe
- >they could have even extended the techniques to larger projects.
- >
- >The Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70 in Colorado was built using the most modern
- >equipment and technology. It's about 1 1/2 miles long, and the `interior
- >passages` were off by just fractions of an inch in th middle.
- >
- > Chris
-
- This is an important but exhausting point of discussion. Its
- theoretical resolution would take considerable time, and its
- practical resolution probably won't happen. Let us agree to
- disagree. The main question remains a matter of legitimate
- contraversy, how the originals were made without our modern
- technology. There is a variety of opinion on that too. Another
- point of controversy was what they were built for. More
- disagreement.
-
- Cordially,
- Gerry Palo (73237.2006@cis)
-