I beg to differ.

Explaining away all the inconsistencies and unknowns by saying
they had unlimited resources is the red herring. This was a bronze
age culture which had all it could do just to support itself yet
we are to believe that by just throwing men at a problem it can be
resolved.

I think I've said this before but it might bear repeating; A man
can easily lift a 50 lb sphere and two men can lift a 100 pound
sphere. But very soon no number of men can lift a large sphere
because not enough can get close to it. This applies to all jobs;
every man has to have the tools and room to work for the job to
proceed. You can't pencil whip a pyramid into existence and you
can't make a surface smooth with one man or 4.2 X 10 ^ 807,000 men
unless you have the knowhow.

"Men are not monkeys" is the red herring. Telling an ancient Egy-
ptian that his king/ god wants him to build a flat side without tools,
room to work, knowledge, and 4.2 X 10 ^ 807,000 coworkers will not
result in a finished product.

People are very full of themselves today. We each think that humans
are the pinnacle of creation and that the race has a monoply on intel-
ligence. If you keep up with the new religion, science, you'll see
that this idea is being debunked more and more. We are little smarter
than the monkey in a vacuum. It is language and the resultant technol-
ogy that has made out life of ease possible, not intelligence.

Now we must use our intelligence (such as it is) and technology to re-
discover the technology of the ancients. I don't pretend to know what
that was but will bet that it was the result of millinea of working
with stone and I think I know what the motive force was.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/23/2008 01:58PM by cladking.