On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:43:56 -0400, Tom wrote:

rofl

Pyramidiots fail to see that these "primitive" stone and chisel users
were somehow master mathematicians with highly advanced geometrical
capabilities. To wit:

The mathematic value of Pi defines the ratio of the circumference to the
diameter of a circle found in the pyramid math.

pi can be found taking twice the base length of the pyramid divided by
its height:

pi = 2 * 440/280 = 880/280 = 22/7 approximating
pi = 3.14159.

Perhaps pi was never specifically calculated, but its value became
incorporated to a very high degree of accuracy for and by future
generations to discover.

Of course, after "chiseling" to perfection the blocks of granite (nary a
human hair can fit in a joint), they would wipe of their sweat, take a
dip in the Nile and resume mathematical excellence.

Of course.

One of the first archaeologists to carry out a thorough survey of the
Pyramid was Petrie, who was particularly struck by the granite coffer
in the King¢s Chamber. The precision with which the coffer had been
carved out of a /single block of extremely hard granite/ struck him as
quite remarkable.

Petrie estimated that diamond-tipped drills would need to have been
applied with a pressure of two tons, in order to hollow out the granite
box. It was not a serious suggestion as to the method actually used but
simply his way of expressing the *impossibility* of creating that
artifact using nineteenth century technology.

It is still a difficult challenge, even with twentieth century
technology. And yet we are supposed to believe that Khufu achieved this
at a time when the Egyptians possessed only the most basic copper hand
tools?

Or well before hand tools were even used?
--
Thor Kuntelin
http://www.anta.com/