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- From: chris@xerox.com (Chris Heiny 73186 - SETA)
- Subject: Re: The Great Pyramid of Giza
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.143827.12305@spectrum.xerox.com>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:38:27 GMT
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- In response to Zerxes M. Bhagalia (v064lnev@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu):
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- "Lets consider the facts, shall we"
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- Yes, let's. Certainly your posting contains very few, if any, of them.
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- "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."
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- How do we know this if almost all of the casing is now missing?
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- "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"
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- Any one with some wooden stakes, some string, and a reasonable idea of
- the location of the pole star could do the same.
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- "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"
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- If you choose an arbitrary unit, you can measure anything so it comes out
- as a function of pi and 365.242. You could define a Sacred Stadia so that
- an ancient hippodrome is exactly pi stadia around if you wanted. This proves
- nothing.
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- Pi, by the way, had been discovered. The Egyptians, being tidy and abhorring
- fractions, generally treated it as 3, although they did have means of
- approximating it when absolutely necessary.
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- "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"
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- Do any of you people ever consider the idea of placing the cement before setting
- the blocks?
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- "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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- Has anyone ever found a flying saucer in one?
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- Chris
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