On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:00:22 -0400, Thor Kuntelin wrote:

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 Kingÿs 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?

Also in Egypt tens of thousands of diorite bowls have been found with
hieroglyphs engraved. Diorite is one of the hardest stones on the
planet, harder than iron, yet intricate inscriptions have been made,
not through the use of chisels or scraping but some unknown ancient
technology.

Whatever it was, was capable of etching lines 1/150th of an inch wide,
often in sets of parallel lines separated by a mere 1/30th of an inch.
The same kind of workmanship has been found in vases, urns, and other
pottery unearthed at the Pyramid of Zoser.

Graham Hancock says: ´There was no technology known to have been
available to the Ancient Egyptians capable of achieving such results.
Nor, for that matter, would any stone-carver today be able to match
them, even if he were working with the best tungsten-carbide tools. The
implication, therefore, is that an unknown or secret technology had
been put to use in Ancient Egypt.¡