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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: The Great Pyramid of Giza
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.154814.22764@unocal.com>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:48:14 GMT
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- In article <Bxyq15.6zL@acsu.buffalo.edu> v064lnev@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Avatar) writes:
- > The pyramid stones, some of which weighed up to 70 tons, were so finely
- >cut and positioned as to give joints of less than a fiftieth of an inch in
- >thickness. Not to mention that the tools employed by the Egyptians, at the
- >time, were not of sufficient hardness to even dent some of the types of stone
- >used in the construction. Next, a fine cement was then run into these joints
- >so expertly as to give an even coverage of areas as big as five feet by seven.
- >The pyramid's now almost totally despoiled original outer casing of polished
- >limestone (all twenty-one acres of it) was levelled and honed to the standard
- >of accuracy normal in modern optical work. As a geodetic marker and an orbital
- >observatory, the Great Pyramid is so perfectly oriented with the cardinal
- >directions that modern compasses are adjusted to it. Furthermore, this
- >spectacular pyramid is sited at the exact center of the geometrical quadrant
- >formed by the Nile Delta. Using the Sacred Cubit, nearly every one of the
- >Pyramid's basic external and internal measurements can be expressed as a
- >function of the quantity pi and 365.242. The quantity pi, by the way, had
- >supposedly not been discovered yet, and 365.242 is the number of days in the
- >solar tropical year. And lastly, though archeologists all consider the pyramid
- >to be a tomb, not one corpse has ever been found within the structure, nor is
- >there any evidence to indicate that their ever were.
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- Can't be that perfect. The blocks are visible in pictures.
- Sounds like rose-colored hearsay to me.
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