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- From: louns@cs.washington.edu (Michael Lounsbery)
- Subject: Re: The Great Pyramid of Giza
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.010525.15573@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 01:05:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.014806.18039@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >
- > And if there ever is a Great Pyramid FAQ, then it should
- >discuss some of the fallacies of Pyramidology, like trying to obtain
- >numbers of cosmic significance out of it. I'm sure that it has been
- >satirized repeatedly by getting similar numbers out of other
- >structures; any good ones?
-
- Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" ties together practically every crackpot
- idea and conspiracy under 1 unified Plan. There's a section in the middle
- where Pyramidiocy is treated. I believe as a counterexample, one of the
- characters develops elaborate significance and prediction based on the
- dimensions of an ordinary lamppost.
-
- Michael Lounsbery
- louns@cs.washington.edu
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