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

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by CyberShy
More important is, if they were that smart, why did they only build pyramids, why did we lose much of their inteligence / knowledge, and HOW smart were they actually?

They were smart enough engineers and slavers to build them, but not smart enough to realise what a waste they were.

[Robert]

They were smart enough engineers and slavers to build them, but not smart enough to realise what a waste they were.

in the long term, everything is waste.
Pherhaps they understood that better than we do.

[Solver]

Cybershy, what are you posting? You're posting a few humble facts about it. 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.

Among the books I recommend on the subject: Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval. Keeper of Genesis.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by CyberShy

Again: I don't take a position in this discussion. I just start it. Now stop the "I'm wiser and mightier and omnipontenter than CyberShy" crap, and talk about the pyramids.

thanks

Sure you took a position. You took the position that it wasn't obvious that the Egyptians did it. Indeed you clearly implied that they couldn't have. More like said outright.

[Q Classic]

Well, and since about everybody thinks that THAT's the best position for the date-line, I think everybody thinks that the location of the pyramids will be there as well.

actually, it was chosen more or less without the consent of anybody outside of europe in the beginning...

But if you have to pick a center, most people (except you) would chose THAT center.

Now you could claim of course that those egyptians were stupid for chosing that center. I think it's pretty smart for people that obviously didn't knew the shape of the entire world............

why would i claim that? all i'm saying is that sure, that's pretty neat, but i think it's more a coincidence than anything, seeing as that the idl didn't come into existence until a few thousand years later... and would have ended up in the atlantic had the balance of power gone to asia rather than europe when all those things like that were being decided...

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by CyberShy
in the long term, everything is waste.
Pherhaps they understood that better than we do.

If they understood that better than we do, then why did they waste so much of their resources on the pyramids.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Caligastia


They were smart enough engineers and slavers to build them, but not smart enough to realise what a waste they were.

And once again (what is it that makes people unable to read nowadays?): the pyramids were NOT build by slaves

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by CyberShy


straight? I think South America is leaning more to the east than North America.

No. Go look at a map. Tierra Del Fuego is most certainly directly south of parts of Canada and just the easternmost parts either.

Did I say I believed it?

You didn't put a single qualifier in there.

that remark wasn't made about stonehenge.
And yes, it's in england (and in israel)
(Like the pyramids are in egypt, and in Sout America) (in a different form though)

Nonsense. Stonehenge is on the Sudbury Plain. Its nowhere near Israel and neither anything even remotely similar. There are things that might be related elsewhere but not in Isreal and no other site of a remotely similar nature has such large stones on top other large stones. There are sites with more stones but not as large.

that makes it even......... more mystrious [/QUOTE]

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Hueij

And once again (what is it that makes people unable to read nowadays?): the pyramids were NOT build by slaves

no?

[Robert]

And once again (what is it that makes people unable to read nowadays?): the pyramids were NOT build by slaves

explain that to me......!

[ranskaldan]

The reason why it's at the center of the "earth" (if you cleave the world at the International Dateline) is because the Egyptians happened to live there. If the center of the "earth" had been in Tunisia instead, the Egyptians wouldn't have been able to hitchhike on a spacecraft to get there, would they?

If you want to be nitpicking and say "the VERY EXACT" center of the "earth" is at the Pyramid of Cheops, then I disagree with you. How are Pacific Islands counted, together with Asia, or America? Where were all the ancient coastlines? (The Euphrates and Yangtze have both expanded their deltas significantly) Do you count lakes as "land" or "sea"? Do you count ice as "land" or "sea"? You can twiddle any of these to make the center fall anywhere in Egypt.

As for the thing about how no one today could have built the Pyramids: right... and we built the Eiffel Tower? and the Empire State Building? and CN Tower? And even then, no one today can design and build a large pile?

As for the N-E-W-S thing: doubtlessly, in ancient Egypt the sun, moon and stars rose from random directions.

And finally, the thing about the "el":
Unless the Hebrews kept an alloy "el" in a vacuum container, all ancient units of measurement were impossibly imprecise. The "foot" is, after all, based on the length of the foot. In another example, the Chinese "chi" rose from 10+ cm in Shang times to 33 cm today. The figure of "365.242" is ridiculous.

And finally, to CyberShy: what, exactly, is your point?

[Ethelred]

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.

But if you have to pick a center, most people (except you) would chose THAT center.

No one has ever chosen that as the center. Its near but not on the ten degree longitude line.

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by CyberShy

And once again (what is it that makes people unable to read nowadays?): the pyramids were NOT build by slaves

explain that to me......!

did anyone play Pharaoh?

the designers painstakingly used a unique model to simulate both farming and pyramid-building.

Basically, farmers built the pyramids during the Inundation season.

[Urban Ranger]

Have you been reading those two nutcases, Robert Bauval and whatshisname?

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by CyberShy

And once again (what is it that makes people unable to read nowadays?): the pyramids were NOT build by slaves

explain that to me......!

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.