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- From: karl_best@novell.com (Karl Best)
- Subject: Re: The Great Pyramid of Giza
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:06:26 GMT
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- In article <Bxyq15.6zL@acsu.buffalo.edu> v064lnev@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
- (Avatar) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
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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. As a geodetic marker and an
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- How do we know all this, pray tell? If the outer layer is now gone, how do we
- know it was "levelled (sic) and honed to the standard of accuracy normal in
- modern optical work"? Who was around to determine this standard of accuracy
- before modern optical work was developed?
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