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Posted: 3/17/2021 9:55:42 PM EST
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Mayan. Went on top and underneath into the center too! They won’t let you do that anymore lol.
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Posted: 3/17/2021 9:57:36 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: TEAR THAT FUCKING GARBAGE DOWN. EVIL PURE AND SIMPLE. GET EM! Honestly I'm surprised the spanish didn't. 
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Posted: 3/17/2021 9:59:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: TEAR THAT FUCKING GARBAGE DOWN. EVIL PURE AND SIMPLE. GET EM! Honestly I'm surprised the spanish didn't. https://i.imgur.com/UKdPnOJ.jpeg Bastards certainly did their best to destroy everything else in Central and South America. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:01:37 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I went to High School in Maadi Egypt... our schools graduation ceremonies were held at Giza... Been to Giza dozens of times.. as well as some of the lesser known sites. You can rent horses for the day and ride into the desert around Giza.. or Saqqara. When you stand there, and realize this stone came in on barges, and was done with primitive bronze age tools, you will understand why shows like "Ancient aliens" have a following. Giza especially.. the math, and understanding of our globe, needed to build it was beyond what we assume there technology was ever capable of. Going off of your last sentence, it seems contradictory to your claim that their tools were primitive. I would assume their tools were quite advanced as we have not done such meaningful work. @BDA |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:13:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Going off of your last sentence, it seems contradictory to your claim that their tools were primitive. I would assume their tools were quite advanced as we have not done such meaningful work. @BDA Then you completely missed my point. Some claiming men did that with reed barges and bronze tools beggars belief. The were certainly highly advanced. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:22:53 PM EST
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Saw the Egyptian pyramids in the distance while doing a fuel stop on the way to Saudi Arabia.
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:31:19 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It is slightly more sophisticated than a fucking rocking pile. It literally is a pile of rocks. So no. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:33:00 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bastards certainly did their best to destroy everything else in Central and South America. Oh no, they stopped people from eating each other! What a shame! I guess they did fail at knocking over every pyramid, they knocked over a bunch though, so good job dudes. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:37:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It literally is a pile of rocks. So no. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It is slightly more sophisticated than a fucking rocking pile. It literally is a pile of rocks. So no. Yeah and an iPhone is literally a clump of silicon, aluminum, and glass. Your pyramid boner is baffling. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:38:36 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh no, they stopped people from eating each other! What a shame! I guess they did fail at knocking over every pyramid, they knocked over a bunch though, so good job dudes. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Bastards certainly did their best to destroy everything else in Central and South America. Oh no, they stopped people from eating each other! What a shame! I guess they did fail at knocking over every pyramid, they knocked over a bunch though, so good job dudes. Yay, destruction of historical records! Burn that library, baby! Nothing in there worth knowing! |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:42:05 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yay, destruction of historical records! Burn that library, baby! Nothing in there worth knowing! Im sorry you will never know the particular way in which they prepared human flesh to make it more wearable. What a loss to mankind. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:42:56 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah and an iPhone is literally a clump of silicon, aluminum, and glass. Your pyramid boner is baffling. iPhones do things, what does a pyramid do besides be a pile of rocks? Nothing. If only Al-Aziz had stuck with it. 
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:45:33 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Im sorry you will never know the particular way in which they prepared human flesh to make it more wearable. What a loss to mankind. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yay, destruction of historical records! Burn that library, baby! Nothing in there worth knowing! Im sorry you will never know the particular way in which they prepared human flesh to make it more wearable. What a loss to mankind. Burn Baby Burn! Merica, Fuck Yeah!! |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:46:13 PM EST
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We took a cruise back in 2012 from New Orleans and one of the stops was the Island of Cozumel. We road the ferry boat to the Mexican mainland and took a bus and visited the Mayan Ruins at Tulum.
  
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:47:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Burn Baby Burn! Merica, Fuck Yeah!! Merica is a complete failure at tearing down pyramids, in fact we built some. I am cheering on Spain and the Ayyubid dynasty. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:51:01 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Merica is a complete failure at tearing down pyramids, in fact we built some. I am cheering on Spain and the Ayyubid dynasty. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Burn Baby Burn! Merica, Fuck Yeah!! Merica is a complete failure at tearing down pyramids, in fact we built some. I am cheering on Spain and the Ayyubid dynasty. Baffling. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:51:45 PM EST
[#17]
Nope, only ever saw those goofy Triforce-lookin' light fixtures in Milwaukee airport.
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:52:17 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Baffling. Its not. Stop loving degenerate rock piles, love human success. Cortes and Saladin have accomplished more than all the rocks ever piled. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:52:44 PM EST
[#19]
I saw the Luxor hotel.
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:54:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Its not. Stop loving degenerate rock piles, love human success. Cortes and Saladin have accomplished more than all the rocks ever piled. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Baffling. Its not. Stop loving degenerate rock piles, love human success. Cortes and Saladin have accomplished more than all the rocks ever piled. 
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:55:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. At 36,000 years old. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 10:57:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Since people have been studying them for hundreds of years you'd think they'd have proven it by now, but they haven't. Wonder why... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 11:00:06 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Then you completely missed my point. Some claiming men did that with reed barges and bronze tools beggars belief. The were certainly highly advanced. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Going off of your last sentence, it seems contradictory to your claim that their tools were primitive. I would assume their tools were quite advanced as we have not done such meaningful work. @BDA Then you completely missed my point. Some claiming men did that with reed barges and bronze tools beggars belief. The were certainly highly advanced. Cool beans man |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 11:05:31 PM EST
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Posted: 3/17/2021 11:08:29 PM EST
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Posted: 3/17/2021 11:10:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: iPhones do things, what does a pyramid do besides be a pile of rocks? Nothing. If only Al-Aziz had stuck with it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yeah and an iPhone is literally a clump of silicon, aluminum, and glass. Your pyramid boner is baffling. iPhones do things, what does a pyramid do besides be a pile of rocks? Nothing. If only Al-Aziz had stuck with it. The pyramids indicate advanced astrological and mathematical knowledge. They pulled off an amazing engineering feat. You are surely aware that the Great Pyramid faces true north? And that the Sphnix marks the precession of the equinoxes? You know how the temples were laid out to demonstrate knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence? Just rocks brah. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 11:36:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The pyramids indicate advanced astrological and mathematical knowledge. They pulled off an amazing engineering feat. You are surely aware that the Great Pyramid faces true north? And that the Sphnix marks the precession of the equinoxes? You know how the temples were laid out to demonstrate knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence? . Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Yeah and an iPhone is literally a clump of silicon, aluminum, and glass. Your pyramid boner is baffling. iPhones do things, what does a pyramid do besides be a pile of rocks? Nothing. If only Al-Aziz had stuck with it. The pyramids indicate advanced astrological and mathematical knowledge. They pulled off an amazing engineering feat. You are surely aware that the Great Pyramid faces true north? And that the Sphnix marks the precession of the equinoxes? You know how the temples were laid out to demonstrate knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence? . You are surely aware that the Aztecs and Maya were about as savage and evil as it is possible for humans to be, right? Or are you only defending Egyptian piles of rock? |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 11:42:55 PM EST
[#28]
Quote History+1 |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 11:51:30 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You are surely aware that the Aztecs and Maya were about as savage and evil as it is possible for humans to be, right? Or are you only defending Egyptian piles of rock? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Yeah and an iPhone is literally a clump of silicon, aluminum, and glass. Your pyramid boner is baffling. iPhones do things, what does a pyramid do besides be a pile of rocks? Nothing. If only Al-Aziz had stuck with it. The pyramids indicate advanced astrological and mathematical knowledge. They pulled off an amazing engineering feat. You are surely aware that the Great Pyramid faces true north? And that the Sphnix marks the precession of the equinoxes? You know how the temples were laid out to demonstrate knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence? . You are surely aware that the Aztecs and Maya were about as savage and evil as it is possible for humans to be, right? Or are you only defending Egyptian piles of rock? Savage/evil and advanced technology are hardly mutually exclusive. The nazis had a very strong grasp of science, and yet murdered 10 million humans. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 12:22:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You are surely aware that the Aztecs and Maya were about as savage and evil as it is possible for humans to be, right? Or are you only defending Egyptian piles of rock? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Yeah and an iPhone is literally a clump of silicon, aluminum, and glass. Your pyramid boner is baffling. iPhones do things, what does a pyramid do besides be a pile of rocks? Nothing. If only Al-Aziz had stuck with it. The pyramids indicate advanced astrological and mathematical knowledge. They pulled off an amazing engineering feat. You are surely aware that the Great Pyramid faces true north? And that the Sphnix marks the precession of the equinoxes? You know how the temples were laid out to demonstrate knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence? . You are surely aware that the Aztecs and Maya were about as savage and evil as it is possible for humans to be, right? Or are you only defending Egyptian piles of rock? Calling them rockpiles is akin to calling humans a clump of matter. The organization creates the meaning. I'm speaking to ancient Egyptian culture. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 7:36:20 AM EST
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I used to fly into Cairo quite often and would visit the pyramids regularly. Going inside was pretty cool.
Cool pic I took from my hotel balcony back in '80:  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 7:56:28 AM EST
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Posted: 3/18/2021 7:59:47 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The pyramids indicate advanced astrological and mathematical knowledge. They pulled off an amazing engineering feat. You are surely aware that the Great Pyramid faces true north? And that the Sphinx marks the precession of the equinoxes? You know how the temples were laid out to demonstrate knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence? Just rocks brah. Meh. Prison inmates figured out how to make toilet wine and tattoo guns out of commissary shit too. Sometimes innovation is more a result of time and idleness than intelligence. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 8:17:22 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, offering various alternative explanations for the cause and date of the erosion. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 8:32:54 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, offering various alternative explanations for the cause and date of the erosion. You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 8:34:50 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You are surely aware that the Aztecs and Maya were about as savage and evil as it is possible for humans to be, right? Or are you only defending Egyptian piles of rock? Why are you putting today’s morals on people from the past? |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 8:36:22 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I used to fly into Cairo quite often and would visit the pyramids regularly. Going inside was pretty cool. Cool pic I took from my hotel balcony back in '80: Attached FileAwesome picture. Nice room! |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 8:51:56 AM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, offering various alternative explanations for the cause and date of the erosion. You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. How do "organic samples" tell us how it rained 10,000 years ago? |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 8:56:33 AM EST
[#39]
Chichen Itza. Didn't realize how fucking far away from Cancun it actually was when we took the trip. I climbed up on top of the ruins of a Mayan temple on Isla Mujeres while trying to catch an iguana on the same trip.
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Posted: 3/18/2021 8:57:07 AM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How do "organic samples" tell us how it rained 10,000 years ago? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, offering various alternative explanations for the cause and date of the erosion. You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. How do "organic samples" tell us how it rained 10,000 years ago? There's evidence of large scale plant life in the Sahara at some point in the past. Using carbon dating, we can estimate the time when that plant matter was alive. Such plant matter could only exist under a regime of large scale persistent rainfall. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You mentioned something before about nothing being older than 6,000 years. If your argument is that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago we'll just have to agree to disagree. If that's not your argument, please clarify. I'm having a hard time seeing what you're trying to say. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 8:57:45 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just dirt ones. Cahokia and the ones near Tuscaloosa AL Oh, and Luxor in LV. Kind of a disappointment I drive past that big dirt pile in Cahokia regularly. This part of the state is covered in burial mounds. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 9:00:43 AM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There’s a Pyramid in my head. There’s one underneath my bed. And my lady's getting cranky Every possible location Has a simple explanation And it isn't hanky-panky |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 10:36:35 AM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There's evidence of large scale plant life in the Sahara at some point in the past. Using carbon dating, we can estimate the time when that plant matter was alive. Such plant matter could only exist under a regime of large scale persistent rainfall. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You mentioned something before about nothing being older than 6,000 years. If your argument is that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago we'll just have to agree to disagree. If that's not your argument, please clarify. I'm having a hard time seeing what you're trying to say. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, offering various alternative explanations for the cause and date of the erosion. You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. How do "organic samples" tell us how it rained 10,000 years ago? There's evidence of large scale plant life in the Sahara at some point in the past. Using carbon dating, we can estimate the time when that plant matter was alive. Such plant matter could only exist under a regime of large scale persistent rainfall. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You mentioned something before about nothing being older than 6,000 years. If your argument is that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago we'll just have to agree to disagree. If that's not your argument, please clarify. I'm having a hard time seeing what you're trying to say. Doesn't sound very specific. What I'm getting at is the pyramids were all built less than 6,000 years ago. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 10:41:15 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Doesn't sound very specific. What I'm getting at is the pyramids were all built less than 6,000 years ago. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, offering various alternative explanations for the cause and date of the erosion. You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. How do "organic samples" tell us how it rained 10,000 years ago? There's evidence of large scale plant life in the Sahara at some point in the past. Using carbon dating, we can estimate the time when that plant matter was alive. Such plant matter could only exist under a regime of large scale persistent rainfall. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You mentioned something before about nothing being older than 6,000 years. If your argument is that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago we'll just have to agree to disagree. If that's not your argument, please clarify. I'm having a hard time seeing what you're trying to say. Doesn't sound very specific. What I'm getting at is the pyramids were all built less than 6,000 years ago. Carbon dating is accurate to well under 100 years in that range. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 10:43:09 AM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Carbon dating is accurate to well under 100 years in that range. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, offering various alternative explanations for the cause and date of the erosion. You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. How do "organic samples" tell us how it rained 10,000 years ago? There's evidence of large scale plant life in the Sahara at some point in the past. Using carbon dating, we can estimate the time when that plant matter was alive. Such plant matter could only exist under a regime of large scale persistent rainfall. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You mentioned something before about nothing being older than 6,000 years. If your argument is that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago we'll just have to agree to disagree. If that's not your argument, please clarify. I'm having a hard time seeing what you're trying to say. Doesn't sound very specific. What I'm getting at is the pyramids were all built less than 6,000 years ago. Carbon dating is accurate to well under 100 years in that range. Are you talking about carbon dating for the materials the pyramid was built with? |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 10:48:56 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Are you talking about carbon dating for the materials the pyramid was built with? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Interesting that none of those pyramids are more than 6,000 years old. Aren't they? Now that's the real trick innit. Just realize that the Sphnix has extensive rain erosion on it and it's been 10,000 years since they've had extensive rainfall in Egypt. They have, you just didn't know yet. We know all the rain patterns for the last 10,000 years? hahahaha ETA: Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, offering various alternative explanations for the cause and date of the erosion. You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. How do "organic samples" tell us how it rained 10,000 years ago? There's evidence of large scale plant life in the Sahara at some point in the past. Using carbon dating, we can estimate the time when that plant matter was alive. Such plant matter could only exist under a regime of large scale persistent rainfall. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You mentioned something before about nothing being older than 6,000 years. If your argument is that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago we'll just have to agree to disagree. If that's not your argument, please clarify. I'm having a hard time seeing what you're trying to say. Doesn't sound very specific. What I'm getting at is the pyramids were all built less than 6,000 years ago. Carbon dating is accurate to well under 100 years in that range. Are you talking about carbon dating for the materials the pyramid was built with? No, as I said I'm talking about the organic material that existed in the Sahara Desert. We've determined that most of the Sahara was covered with vegetation, and thus exposed to regular rainfall, between 14,500 ya and 5,000 ya. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 11:40:05 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You see there's this thing called the Sahara Desert. It doesn't rain much there, that's what makes it a desert. We know from organic samples when it did rain, and why. There's also this thing called the Aswan High Dam. It keeps the Nile in check. Before it (and the low dam before it) was built, that area flooded every year, in fact that flood was an essential part of the agriculture that formed the backbone of the civilization. There's also a shitfuckton of ground water in the area, there's been lots of recent work to control it on the Giza plateau. And then there's the fact that it does actually rain in Northern Egypt. I got rained on in Cairo. Not a pleasant experience. Everything smelly gets smellier, the streets turn slick as ice from the dust and a year's collected chinese shitdiesel engine crud, and everyone finds out at once that they have bald tires and broke wipers. The locals who don't drown or die in car accidents love it though. The Sphinx is carved from bedrock limestone, the layers of which erode at different rates. Those rates have been calculated by people without tinfoil hats, and there is nothing of any weight suggesting that the sphinx as we see it was carved prior to Khafre. The most erosion resistant layer is that of the head, luckily. One need also peel back the timeline of the many repairs done on the statue back as far as the beginning of the New Kingdom before one can date any of it, and that's all just a little too boring for the typical flashy youtube video with a googly-eyed crank narrating over other people's photos. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 11:52:16 AM EST
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Oh, and if we're looking for an earlier date for the Sphinx, we have to take the sphinx temple with it. The temple was built from the stone excavated to form the sphinx.
...so then we need a context for that temple, and evidently one that doesn't include the giant fucking triangular pile of rocks behind it, the causeway from the temple to that pile of rocks, etc. And then we need to believe that Khafre's dad, Khufu, the first pyramid builder of the Giza plateau, built his pyramid out of alignment with the supposedly preexisting sphinx complex, leaving it all cattywumpus until the son built his pyramid in alignment with it. As you research, the "old sphinx" theory just gets harder and harder to justify. The stretches get further and further. The assumptions and guesses get larger and larger, while the idea that it was carved as a part of the mortuary temple to Khafre gets easier and easier. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 11:56:54 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh, and if we're looking for an earlier date for the Sphinx, we have to take the sphinx temple with it. The temple was built from the stone excavated to form the sphinx. ...so then we need a context for that temple, and evidently one that doesn't include the giant fucking triangular pile of rocks behind it, the causeway from the temple to that pile of rocks, etc. And then we need to believe that Khafre's dad, Khufu, the first pyramid builder of the Giza plateau, built his pyramid out of alignment with the supposedly preexisting sphinx complex, leaving it all cattywumpus until the son built his pyramid in alignment with it. As you research, the "old sphinx" theory just gets harder and harder to justify. The stretches get further and further. The assumptions and guesses get larger and larger, while the idea that it was carved as a part of the mortuary temple to Khafre gets easier and easier. |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 12:02:11 PM EST
[#50]
Quote Historysomeday ill get down there to see this |
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