Hans Wrote:
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> Oh, gosh and how would they do that once they had
> built over the shafts - give us a drawing how
> you'd access the blocking stones?
By the time the shafts were buried under the construction they were obsolete for all three of their functions. When the so called kings chamber was roofed air flowed in and out the upper set of airshafts. The sloped shaft was needed only on the working surface and the upper shafts served this purpose as well.
As I said, the shafts were here as a contingency in the event they were needed. Access to this chamber and the horizontal passage wasn't as needful as they had believed it might be. Since they were never needed they were never opened into the chamber.
> Are they? Please show supporting engineering
> calculations that this is true or is this just
> more of your pompous, 'my opinions are facts'
> routine? Asked in reply to this childish
> statement: "Except that they are perfectly
> engineered to let in fresh air and take out stale
> air and fumes"
Why don't you design a more efficient system using the same characteristics as the existing shafts?
I know you can't do it.
> You didn't reply to my correction about your
> assumption about the wind and directions. I take
> that as your concession that you were wrong and
> were once again caught making stuff up.
Oh, what was that? The wind was typically out of the NW or WNW during construction season and was generally cool and dry. It often came out of the SW and was very hot and dry carrying sand when it was very windy. It sometimes came out of the N or S when air pressure was changing. East winds were less common. Temperature inversions were not infrequent and interrupted building nearly as often as sand storms. Nile floods often came higher than the base of the Sphinx.
The airshafts would move at least a little air under virtually any ambient conditions and the effect can be (and probably was) greatly amplified by placing sails at the "outlets" to create high or low pressure where the shaft came out of the pyramid. In other words there would typically be a cool light breeze moving up the grand gallery and sometimes coming down.
What do you believe about winds?
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2021 05:30PM by cladking.