What is Digg?Sponsored by Dragon Age: Origins
Can't get enough Dragon Age: Origins? Check out new footage. view!
DragonAge.BioWare.com - EA presents BioWare's new dark fantasy epic Dragon Age: Origins. '9/10' from Game Informer.
60 Comments
- pstroll, on 04/27/2008, -1/+48Don't remove the them!! Those are load bearing shells!
- PabloMac, on 04/27/2008, -0/+17Sally made a killing back then.
- Rotzooi, on 04/27/2008, -10/+26The large pyramids were built roughly 4500 years ago, so God only had about 1500 years to put the seashells there.
- atgmac, on 04/27/2008, -0/+15This just proves that they're spaceship landing pads.
- vroom101, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12Nice pics of The Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx:
1. http://www.spaceimagingme.com/content/Downloads/sa ...
2. http://www.satimagingcorp.com/galleryimages/quickb ...
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20060929063721/www.spac ...
4. http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040823.htm - ferrell, on 04/27/2008, -1/+11Seashells? In MY Pyramid?
- HedwigDies, on 04/27/2008, -1/+10Senusret sold seashells by the Sphinx.
- philodygmn, on 04/27/2008, -8/+16Sounds like sea mud was used in making concrete. Romans formed pillars in water by pouring the concrete mixture directly into moulds in seawater as a way both to activate and set the formula. Hauling in sea-floor mud seems like a plausible source for similar methods in Egypt, especially considering it wasn't necessarily desertified at the time of the pyramids' construction.
- SirBotchness, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7I think the Sphinx is carved from a few huge rocks rather than built by mud bricks.
- ThePerkins, on 04/27/2008, -2/+9*cough* sarcasm
- charlietuna, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7No, sandstone is composed of... ancient sand! That sand often has fossils.
- piesforyou, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5Sounds like? Why don't you read the article - you're wrong. They're talking about the fossils within the limestone blocks.
"The observed random emplacement and strictly homogenous distribution of the fossil shells within the whole rock is in harmony with their initial in situ setting in a fluidal sea bottom environment,"
"...various types of limestones. The latter was found to contain "numerous shell fossils of nummulites gen."" - rhedrick, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5The size of the levees/dikes surrounding a structure the size of a pyramid would have been more difficult to construct than the pyramid itself - that's obvious. Also, if using this technique you could have built a cube or other shapes unnused by the egyptions. A better solution is to bring the blocks to the pyramids in liquid fashion - limestone aggregate slurry. Carry up powder and water in human carryable portions, mix in a mold and let dry.
- MarsSentinel, on 04/27/2008, -2/+6How to make something perfectly level and flat without a laser or other hi-tech means and, as a bonus, how to lift and move gi-normous stones without cranes: dig a big bowl in the ground, fill it with water. Barge your stones to the construction site, in the bowl. Drop the stones to the bottom and then raise the water level until it reaches where you want to top of your flat stone surface to be. Work the stone (grind, chip) until it is flat and level with the waterline. Raise the waterline and repeat. The water allows you to carry the stones AND to make perfectly flat and level surfaces. When you oare done drain the water and enjoy your new building (pyramid). Meanwhile little crabby-thingies have moved-in to your crevices and corners.
- highlyhigh, on 04/27/2008, -2/+5i knew it. pyramids are actually prison for sea monkeys due to ancient egyptians victory on them over global domination.
- schmitey, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4Sorry to state the obvious, but they are made of limestone.
- fxu1989, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3THAT'S UNPOSSIBLE!
- piesforyou, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3Sometimes, yes. But this does not always happen. It depends on the energy of deposition. Some limestones are composed of nearly 100% intact fossil shells. For example:
http://ougseurope.org/trips/jura/img/limestonebloc ... - rhedrick, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3They were made of limestone yes. But, were they quarried (solid stone) or were they poured (limestone aggregate slurry)? http://www.livescience.com/history/070518_bts_bars ...
- chrisaug18, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3clever
- moocowrat, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2the article states that there's more evidence for the carved-out-of-stone theory than the concrete theory.
- charlietuna, on 04/27/2008, -2/+4While he was digging the Grand Canyon!
http://tinyurl.com/53b2ut - inactive, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2because rocks in boats float
- johndi, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3So I'm responsible for Adam's sin, but God isn't responsible for how he cleaned up the mess or the fact that he put the temptation there in the first place. Why didn't he just wipe the slate clean and send two people to hell instead of billions? That's why many Gnostic's believe that God is evil and should be worshiped out of fear and self-interest. Read the book of Job again. Satan was God's agent not his enemy. It's pretty much like that throughout the old testament and even parts of the new testament. He tempted Christ to show that Jesus didn't cave in like Adam. He was doing God's work. The Bible is a very interesting book, but if you actually read it with an open mind you'll never believe what you hear in Church again.
- anachronaut, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2FTFA:
"Liritzis and his team argue that since the fossils are largely undamaged and are distributed in a random manner within the stone, in accordance with their typical distribution at sea floors, the large building stones used to construct the monuments must have been carved out of natural stone instead of cast in molds. To further their argument, the scientists say the X-ray patterns detected no presence of lime, which would be expected along with natron, a salt found in early cast materials."
I know reading the article is unfashionable, but still... it was right there. - ThePerkins, on 04/27/2008, -7/+8This is proof of the Great Flood!! Hallelujah what a savior!!
- SEANWOOKIE, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2It's more likely than you think.
- inactive, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1There is the beginnings of a giant blue blob about to eat Egypt up in picture no. 2!
- Jenadae, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2http://alt1040.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dark ...
- jackal42, on 04/27/2008, -3/+4he's not your guy. friend. ?
- Willravel, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2I always figured it was nougat topped with roasted peanuts and caramel.
- Steinr, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Thanks they are awesome shots.
- shadowflower, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1the poor sea monkeys must have spent their life watching pharaohs have sex until they die and rot in there..
- MrSidnet, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1So? My fish tank has been spontaneously generating pesty snails for weeks, it's not a big deal.
- trinest, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1It would have been fine if you were not such a wimp about it.
- Amadeus2490, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I always make terrible puns in real life, and I simply acknowledge when they're bad. It's like a fat person making fat jokes about themselves.
- j4200, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1This is nothing new. They've found the quarries that the stones were carved out of long ago. It was only ever speculation with no backing evidence that the stones were cast in molds. All that this finding does is provide some .. concrete evidence to the contrary. Bad pun, I know, but it was worth the reach.
- Amadeus2490, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2My pyramid! The shells do nothing!
- novenator, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Saw a 8 foot mummified fish in the cairo museum when I was there. I wonder if any of those specimens are in the pyramids too. eerie looking beast!
- Scorps111, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2am not your friend, buddy
- jheathupton, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1That isn't proof of a great flood, it's proof of spontaneous generation of seashells in the pyramids.... That's even better than the spontaneous generation of the singularity!
- johndi, on 04/27/2008, -4/+4The devil put those fossils there to lead people away from God. He's crafty like that. You should take a visit to the creation museum so you don't get fooled again. Now if they could just come up with a reason why an all-knowing, all-loving God created man when he knew he'd have to send billions of us to hell...
- jheathupton, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2You are free to choose heaven or hell. It is not He who will send you there but we who will choose to go.
- Javlington, on 04/27/2008, -4/+4She sells...
- SlamShut, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2***** it. Let's just smash the damn things and sell the pieces on eBay.
- piesforyou, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1Behold the Great Spirit Level of Egypt!
- positron, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1false dichotomy is false
- korvan504521, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1i hate all these damn stupid christians mucking up the religion. We should have an IQ test to get inside the church doors.
God's not an idiot. If he wants a car he doesn't start with a bunch of scrap metal, he says, "let there be a car" and there's a ***** car there. And it'll say Lexus on it because God has good taste.
An Omnipotent God wouldn't start from scratch. The world can LOOK a billion years old and be in a process of evolution and development while only BEING 6000 years old. - hmunkey, on 04/27/2008, -3/+3Duh!
-
Show 51 - 61 of 61 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is 
