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- nonpareil, on 10/12/2007, -19/+229The French architect completely overlooks compelling evidence that Chuck Norris built the pyramids in a day.
- anidal, on 10/12/2007, -4/+83bah, they're all wrong. We all know it was the Goa’uld that made the pyramids for landing their spaceships.
- spatznick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60
So no extraterrestrial involvement this time... - steveguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41http://khufu.3ds.com/introduction/
Here are some pictures and an animation of Jean-Pierre Houdin's idea for those like me who don't like to read. - fyrehart, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35I'm a digg user. In my brain I have a 2D computer - perfect for ASCII porn.
- eleven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34I guess that means yet another discovery channel special will begin production soon ;
- antifreze, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31"I am an architect - in my brain I have a 3-D computer," M. Houdin explained in an interview
NEAT!
I wonder what causes a BSOD in your head... - dudad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31From a link of fyreharts, about what Aaron has said:
"As the environment fails, Donahue said cyborgs will be developed into which people can transfer their consciousness. The cyborgs will be linked together like a matrix. But he warns against using this as a way of escaping death. People will find themselves trapped in these machines and doomed to stay there for millions of years, until the solar system goes into self destruct."
Sweet. I hope my cyborg has laser beams coming from his eyes. - Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29They most likely used compensated laborers who, in the agricultural off-season, were driven by their faith in the king's divinity as well as their need for employment.
- alllie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Wally built the pyramids. Or could have.
This is a amazing video of a guy who has learned how to move huge blocks of concrete all by himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0
If the Egyptians were as clever as Wally, they could have built them with relatively few people. - pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -14/+37No it wasn't the Goa'uld aliens, it was the ill'egal aliens.
- SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -11/+28I've seen 5 different documentaries tell me this already. They used slaves.
- MystikD, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19amen, if you crack the whip hard enough..... nothing is impossible
- Daveydje, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16To quote Red Dwarf:
Rimmer: No, Lister, I mean like the pyramids. How did they move such massive pieces of stone without the aid of modern technology?
Lister: They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips. - Haohmaru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Err, the Jews weren't even a people when the Egyptians made the pyramids.
If you use the biblical time line, those things were already ancient when Moses saw them. - XISUPERMANIX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Unless there is some actual evidence, these will always be theories. Only the Egyptians know...
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12A: Crowd sourcing 0.1
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12If you use the biblical time line then the pyramids were probably built by Noah with his dinosaur pets and slave-giants.
- vblvbl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I vote for "helicopters"
- antifreze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10And maybe the mer-people will come out of hiding and enslave us all.
- TitaniumJackal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9> Four people have now posted this quote on separate occasions.
That's okay. As M Houdin once explained in an interview with the Independent, "I am an architect - in my brain I have a 3-D computer." - nj10ii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Knew
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Famous misunderstanding due to garbled history in the bible. There is no evidence the jews were ever enslaved in Egypt; there is no mention of it anywhere except the bible, and there's quite a lot of writing and art left from the era. The jews WERE, however, enslaved in Babylon, and may well have been forced to build pyramids (ziggurats) there.
- Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Four people have now posted this quote on separate occasions.
- deadgoon42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Lister: Oh god, aliens? Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys, it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall, it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well.
Rimmer: Well we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?
Lister: Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll? - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9They did this like TEN YEARS ago on PBS...
they came to the conclusion that lower blocks were most likely chiseled, while blocks higher up were most likely cast. - Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7>> French architect will unveil the fruits of eight years' work and announce at a conference in Paris tomorrow ...
That's great. Repost tomorrow when there's something to read. - Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7What, AGAIN?
It seems every two weeks someone "solves" how the Egyptians built their pyramids - the last suggestion was that the building blocks were in fact made of concrete and were cast in-situ; before that a theory was advanced that the blocks were 'walked' up ramps, much like Heyerdahl suggested the statues on Easter Island were; and the default explanation is and has for a long time been that a long ramp was built up on one side of the pyramid. - HigherLogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Also, call me crazy, but I think the legend of Atlantis plays a part in this when the inhabitants of Atlantis left, I think they built their monuments ( pyramids ) all over the world. Look at the Aztecs...."
Didn't you catch the History Channel documentary on Atlantis? I thought it was the most plausible answer so far, saying that Atlantis (which wasn't actually the name) is where Crete and the surrounding islands are today, and that a volcano and ensuing tidal wave destroyed pretty much everyone there, covering the entire (and surrounding) city in ash, which there is proof of.
It then talks about how the survivors went to Egypt because they were their biggest trading partner, and one of the kings (I believe) at the time wrote about this disaster, where it eventually (the story of 'Atlantis') became folklore, an oral story passed down until it reached the likes of Plato where he wrote his version.
I'm probably mucking up some details, but that's just from the top of my head. - Haohmaru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Well, according to known history, the Pyramids were built by conscripted labor forces paid in beer and bread.
They weren't slaves, as they probably believed in what they were doing. People throughout history (even today) would work just to be able to eat everyday, nevermind receive money. - UrbanVoyeur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Everybody knows they were built by Aliens off site and drop shipped to Egypt by FedEx.
- tyme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6dudad: What, not x-ray vision? And remember, they don't come any bigger than 5 feet. But you can get metal teeth, and have the strength of 5 gorillas.
- HigherLogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5>> Isn't it funny how I get down just because I [...] quote sources
The Christian bible isn't a "source" for proving an argument. A for effort though. - Haohmaru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I really don't understand why they insist that didn't have "The Wheel". As smart as they were, they didn't have a wheel?
- tarmithius, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8The best and funniest quote out of that article is: "I am an architect - in my brain I have a 3-D computer," M. Houdin explained
- mattabb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5sounds like an April Fool's day joke to me
- randf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4couldn't get that site to load, but someone linked to a really good site (far down the page from here) that goes in to very great detail.
cut and pasted it here so you don't have to get close to the censorship/9/11 truther loon lurking down there.
credit to pennvneff for:
http://www.construire-la-grande-pyramide.fr/html/indexGB.htm - mogus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4FTA: the ramp would have been so long that the materials required for the ramp itself would have been comparable to the materials required for the pyramid itself.
- ThePict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@heyseuss
According to http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/nubian105.html
All the tombs at Meroë have been plundered, most infamously by Italian explorer Giuseppe Ferlini (1800-1870) who smashed the tops off 40 pyramids in a quest for treasure in the 1820s. Ferlini found only one cache of gold. - tigreblanco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5In other unrelated news, the Ancients, in their ascended state, are second guessing letting things happen naturally on Earth without their involvement. Everyone knows the Ancients built the Stargate.
- randf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be--Could be one little tiny universe.
stoners make the greatest theorists, every damn time. - garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Slaves were not used for labor in the Egyptian society, they were more for pleasure (both sexual and otherwise).
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A few plugins are required, but here's a 3D visualization of his explanation:
http://www.3ds.com/introduction/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't care how people think they were built as long as I don't have to hear that it was impossible without extraterrestial help. I'm so over the "alien" thing. Example: while getting stoned on some descent reefer a friend and I were pondering the origin of life. He keeps insisting we were put here by aliens, (he isn't even a Scientologist.) But, as I tell him, where did the aliens come from? Were they put on their respective planets by other alien aliens? Every time there is a mystery on how "impossible" things were done, Aliens get the credit. I had to sit through a History channel show about how our recent computer revolution is a by-product of the Roswell crash and we just reverse engineered the ufo. Alien life might exist, it might not, but they don't build pyramids. Also just because the mayans built pyramids doesn't mean they have any connection to egypt's. If a caveman built a wooden shack in china and another is found in Africa, are they connected? They may be similar shaped but geometry is universal.
- Kikinou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The predators built them and froze an alien queen inside them. They come back every one hundred years to do battle with the aliens.
- ferrofluid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@ Bokista
"They most likely used compensated laborers who, in the agricultural off-season, were driven by their faith in the king's divinity as well as their need for employment."
Glad to see that there are some intelligent people still on digg.
Why did they build them, life tends to be brutal and short esp in the copper, early bronze ages.
so maybe for posterity and leaving a statement to the future, "we were here" type of thing.
Thats one possible reason for the mass of henges and sites scattered in Britain.
Also a way of unifying districts into a national effort under the command of the king. - aardvarkempire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dang, now I have to re-file my plans with my local building inspector again.
- kurtu5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I beleive in reincarnation.
I am not Ramses reincarnated as some would boast, but the level 4 forman on the kufu pyramid construction.
I was wokring at an obilesk quary in thebes but the pension plan sucked. So I applied for a job on kufu. It was a pretty sweet 20 years of work. I had good medical and dental. Transportation was always provided and I drank heartedly on my days off. Taxes were a pain in the ass and then i died.
/Dont beleive in reincarnation. Pyramid workers were the silicon valley guys of 2000bc - randf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2consider yourself kicked...spammer. now GTFO
- pennvneff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.construire-la-grande-pyramide.fr/html/indexGB.htm
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