Who made the pyramids. They must have been smarter than us!

[November Adam]

Cyber... the Egyptians didn't start with pyramids, they started with smaller tombs. Each Pharao wanted something more ellaborate then the one before. It took many practice pyramids prior to the great pyramids to be created. So while they were smart, they didn't come up with the idea of the pyramid right away, but through an evolution of structures.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Ethelred


Whats to explain? The pyramids weren't built by slaves. Thats pretty simple and true.

They were built by Egyptians. Many were profesionals and we have found the where the profesionals lived near Cheops. Its believed that the main moving was done during the period of the year that the Nile flooded the fields. The farmers had to wait till the flood went down. During that time they worked for the Pharoah. Think of it as taxes in the form of labor.

Thats interesting. Do you have any links?

[moomin]

Originally posted by Solver
I have read really a lot about the Egypt, and know quite something about the Pyramids, too. It's clear that they were either built by Atlants, or by Egyptians taught by the Atlants.

Actually, I have it on good authority they were commissioned and built by the Ancients of Mu, who had at this particular time decided to raise their colony of Atlantis from the ocean bottom to participate in this gigantic endevour because of a deal with the Illuminati.

When they where finished with the Psycho-Magic Locator Pylons (or what we foolishly call "Pyramids") they ppmptly submerged Atlantis again, and the Illuminiati have been operating them ever since.

I could tell you more, but then I'd have to kill you. Sorry.

Anyhow, you all missed the point that the Psycho-Magic Locator Pylons are five-sided! 5! And nobody saw the significance of that until Elvis came along... and you all know what happened to him.

Ewige Blumenkraft und Ewige Schlangenkraft!

[Q Classic]

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Originally posted by CyberShy
We *could* have chosen another date-line, but we didn't. Seems like most people will agree. And indeed, of course in fact earth has no center. (oh well, it does, but not on the surface).



I have news for you. We did pick a different date line. The date-line is in the Pacific. Its not on the zero line either as that goes through The British Naval Observatory in Greenwhich England. The line you are talking about is ten degrees east of that. Goes right through Alexandria and NOT right through Cheops.

ethelred, that's not what cs is saying, if i understand him correctly. what i --and he-- are referring to is that pacific date line, which is utterly and completely arbitrary. it is from there that the "westernmost" and "easternmost points" are determined-- because were the globe cut there, the easternmost would be the russian far east, and the westernmost alaska. and going from that, yes, the cheops pyramid may well be the exact center.

but the problem with that is that the dateline there is completely arbitrary, cooked up by some oddball europeans wanting to be the center of the world.

if easternmost and westernmost were determined by the prime meridian, easternmost would be just west of greenwich, while westernmost just east of it. and by that definition, the pyramid would not be in the center of landmass.

that's what i'm saying.

[Gastric ReFlux]

They were pretty smart to build those dimensional stabilizer gates in a desert, which conferred upon them immortality and now a substantial financial dividend through products geared towards the New Age movement.

[Kepler]

I've read that the ratio of the circumference of the earth to the mean radius of the moon's orbit is exactly equal to the ratio of the circumference of a ball point pen's ink ball to the length of its major axis.

[Ethelred]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/builders.html

Lehner's education was paid for by the Cayce organization and that is pretty crackpot but he learned to accept reality when he got to Egypt. So there you have a guy that used to believe the crackpots and now he is into facts instead.

http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/bldpyram.htm

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/pyramid.htm

Egyptian government information site. Its a US mirror as the Egyptian site was very slow. This one runs faster.

http://www.us.sis.gov.eg/pyramid/html/pyr00.htm

Its kind of short on information though. It does call the sort of stuff Cybershy posted pyramidiocy.

[MikeH]

The egyptians were the first people to measure the size of the earth, it wouldn't surprise me to know that they also knew the other stuff and built the pyramid deliberately to those sizes.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Kepler
I've read that the ratio of the circumference of the earth to the mean radius of the moon's orbit is exactly equal to the ratio of the circumference of a ball point pen's ink ball to the length of its major axis.

For some reason, this really cracked me up. Does this work for all pens, or only for certain ones? Remember that bp pens come with three ball sizes: fine, medium, and heavy.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Q Cubed


ethelred, that's not what cs is saying, if i understand him correctly.

I don't think he does so how could you or I. I now understand what you are saying however.

what i --and he-- are referring to is that pacific date line, which is utterly and completely arbitrary. it is from there that the "westernmost" and "easternmost points" are determined-- because were the globe cut there, the easternmost would be the russian far east, and the westernmost alaska. and going from that, yes, the cheops pyramid may well be the exact center.

Easily checked. The continents are really close together there.

Alexandria is ten degrees east of Greenwhich.

From the map I am looking at right now the mid point is right in the B of Lybya not in Egypt.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/world_ref802657_1999.pdf

About five degrees east of Greenwhich not ten degrees. A long ways from the Nile.

[pchang]

Pyramid Builders Indeed Smarter

Since the Pyramid builders didn't have Microsoft and Windows, they must really have been smarter than us!

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by MikeH
The egyptians were the first people to measure the size of the earth, it wouldn't surprise me to know that they also knew the other stuff and built the pyramid deliberately to those sizes.

That was an Alexandrian Greek, Eratosthenes. Long after the pyramids were built. It was done in Egypt though. Just too late and by a Greek.

[Alexander's Horse]

I just think they were bored.

[MikeH]

Ah... I misremembered then. I knew it was done in Egypt.

Maybe they did it too but didn't write it down.

[Richelieu]

You guys have to read "Foucault's Pendulum". It's all inthere.