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Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Post by n0us »

I wonder why they cannot use ultrasound or something similar where they "ping" in different locations, then pick up the result by various microphones attached to locations all over the pyramid. I don't know a whole lot about this type of engineering so if someone has an answer I would very much appreciate.

On another note, if they open it up and find out it's been filled with grain this whole time I might have to consider voting for Ben Carson.

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

n0us wrote: post #2

I wonder why they cannot use ultrasound or something similar where they "ping" in different locations, then pick up the result by various microphones attached to locations all over the pyramid. I don't know a whole lot about this type of engineering so if someone has an answer I would very much appreciate. On another note, if they open it up and find out it's been filled with grain this whole time I might have to con…

FTA:

    “Archaeologists have in fact found grain
    silos in Egypt, they’re well known to us
    and they look nothing like pyramids,” she
    says. Egyptian officials have also chimed
    in recently to refute Carson’s ideas.

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Post by n0us »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #3
n0us wrote: post #2

I wonder why they cannot use ultrasound or something similar where they "ping" in different locations, then pick up the result by various microphones attached to locations all over the pyramid. I don't know a whole lot about this type of engineering so if someone has an answer I would very much appreciate. On another note, if they open it up and find out it's been filled with grain this whole time I might have to con…

FTA: “Archaeologists have in fact found grain silos in Egypt, they’re well known to us and they look nothing like pyramids,” she says. Egyptian officials have also chimed in recently to refute Carson’s ideas.

yes but that part of the comment was sarcastic. My jaw would hit the floor though if someone told me it was true.

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Post by andreyf »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #3
n0us wrote: post #2

I wonder why they cannot use ultrasound or something similar where they "ping" in different locations, then pick up the result by various microphones attached to locations all over the pyramid. I don't know a whole lot about this type of engineering so if someone has an answer I would very much appreciate. On another note, if they open it up and find out it's been filled with grain this whole time I might have to con…

FTA: “Archaeologists have in fact found grain silos in Egypt, they’re well known to us and they look nothing like pyramids,” she says. Egyptian officials have also chimed in recently to refute Carson’s ideas.

Just because they found grain silos which were not pyramids doesn't mean that they pyramids weren't also grain silos. Duuuuh.

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Post by jedberg »

ajmurmann wrote: post #7
jedberg wrote: post #5

Once we have nanobot cameras we can send them in through the cracks. All the more reason to invent nanobot cameras. Well, that and the amazing medical imaging they could be used for.

Also spying on everyone.

I was trying to remain positive, but yes, most likely the military will invent them -- heck maybe they already have.

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Post by dalke »

Why are people using infrared to look for new chambers and passages? Muon detectors, using cosmic rays for the source, were used in the 1960s to conclude:

> We can say with confidence that no chambers with volumes similar to the four known chambers in Cheops's and Sneferu's pyramids exist in the mass of limestone investigated by cosmic-ray absorption. The volume of the pyramid probed in this manner is defined by a vertically oriented cone, of half-angle 35 degrees, with its point resting in the Belzoni Chamber. The explored volume is 19 percent of the pyramid's volume. We hope that with minor modifications to the apparatus the complete mass of limestone can be searched for chambers. - http://www2.lns.mit.edu/fisherp/AlvarezPyramids.pdf

That's one of the reasons we know for certainty there is no large, unknown grain storage chamber in those pyramids.

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