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Interesting idea, and maybe one worth investigating further. I've always liked the internal ramp theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4O5LOCI68 In the end, lets all at least agree that it was human innovation and not alien technology that built the pyramids.
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>That would take an incredibly long time. Note that Egypt was a lot wetter when the pyramids were built (circa 2500 BCE). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/ancient/climate-change-may... >Heck, imagine the PSI of water at the bottom of the pyramid columns when they were reaching a hundred feet high? A column of water 100 feet high exerts 43 psi at its base.
OK. So, the great pyramids were nearly 500ft tall. At the top, the pressure below would have been around 200psi. Even the most stalwart modern plumbing fixtures have trouble past 72psi. 100psi is the upper limit before things start to fail. I don't think that there would be a mechanical problem with stone holding back that pressure, it's the leakage that would be the killer.
If the mechanics of using the stonework to hold the water were well worked out I would think clay would work well to seal small cracks (and for the scale we are talking about, the 'plumber' could just crawl on in). Or pitch or other sticky stuff.
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I was wondering too. This video explains in more detail how they used pressure to move the water up http://youtu.be/C1y8N0ePuF8?t=15m20s
Archeologists would be able to find evidence of these water piping from springs underneath the pyramid.
For the sake of the argument, let's accept "The structural engineer reckons that would be impossible as the ramps would have had to have been at least a quarter of a mile long" and ""If that happened, there would still be signs that the ramps had been there, and there aren't any." This idea replaces that quarter mile ramp by a waterway with a difference in water level of 150+ meter and thus with 150+ meter high water…
Interesting idea, and maybe one worth investigating further. I've always liked the internal ramp theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4O5LOCI68 In the end, lets all at least agree that it was human innovation and not alien technology that built the pyramids.
1. People, in general, are smarter than the ancients and civilization has progressed since then. 2. We don't know how they built the pyramids. Either aliens built the pyramids, or we're dumber than the ancients.
When it comes to engineering, domain knowledge is often far more important than any kind of inherent "smartness," and ancient Egyptians had thousands of years of block-stacking domain knowledge that we don't. While modern society has billions of tricks up our sleeve that would completely befuddle ancient Egyptians, I'm sure they had a handful of tricks that would catch us by surprise. Knowledge isn't strictly ordered.
Also, just because we aren't sure precisely which strategy they used doesn't mean that we didn't think of it, it just means that we can't find evidence to overwhelmingly support a single one of our hypotheses.
Not passing the sniff test for me. Three flaws at first glance… At the end he describes lowering blocks into place by incrementally removing bladders. This does not work. As soon as you are fully submerged and displacing with bladders you are unstable. As your depth increases, pressure increases, and your displacement goes down making you sink even faster. The good news is if you get neutrally buoyant you could poke…
Point is, I'm skeptical too but the fellow has made some more videos that go into more detail. They even directly answer some of your questions.
Don't immediately write something off without doing some due diligence first. The more I'm learning about this, the more practical it seems.
Not passing the sniff test for me. Three flaws at first glance… At the end he describes lowering blocks into place by incrementally removing bladders. This does not work. As soon as you are fully submerged and displacing with bladders you are unstable. As your depth increases, pressure increases, and your displacement goes down making you sink even faster. The good news is if you get neutrally buoyant you could poke…
What if a pre-human civilization made them and the egyptians just found them?
Interesting idea, and maybe one worth investigating further. I've always liked the internal ramp theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4O5LOCI68 In the end, lets all at least agree that it was human innovation and not alien technology that built the pyramids.
1. People, in general, are smarter than the ancients and civilization has progressed since then. 2. We don't know how they built the pyramids. Either aliens built the pyramids, or we're dumber than the ancients.
I spent a bit of time over the past few years really old text (some 2000 years+). Nothing in those writings suggest we are smarter than those people.
This entire website looks like a cheap tabloid.