December 11, 2007 11:35AM
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Registered: 18 years ago
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Hello Pete,
You write, 'Quite frankly the shafts have been sealed for four and a half thousand years. What's so urgent that we have to drill a hole in them and have a peak?'
Well, I'm still waiting for somebody to tell me what is so destructive about a cautiously drilled millimetres-diameter hole in a block of stone.
It's not as if a hammering pneumatic drill was being employed for the job!
Nobody is calling for or doing a 'Howard Vyse' here.
It's not even akin to the careless excavations of Silbury Hill.
I really cannot agree with the view that this drilling will damage the Pyramid unnecessarily.
The only non-destructive alternative to drilling is radar of some description.
As I have posted to Cladking, AFAIK there is no such device able to reach the blocks.
You suggest, not unreasonably, that we wait for technology to catch up with us.
Well, with human nature being what it is I can't see that happening.
Where I do see a real problem is if there is something other than core masonry beyond the block.
An empty chamber could, with a little effort, be examined with non-destructive fibre-optics.
But if there are artifacts in the chamber...
Well, I, for one, would not like to be in the position of deciding what to do next.
MJ
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