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Great Pyramid -- interesting facts

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Created by theDoctor > 9 months ago, 1 Mar 2010
theDoctor
NSW, 5786 posts
1 Mar 2010 1:15PM
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this will make your head spin...

http://www.timstouse.com/EarthHistory/Egypt/GreatPyramid/interestingfacts.htm

evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
1 Mar 2010 3:44PM
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The Great Pyramid is the most remarkable building in existence on the face of our planet today. It was built with such precision that our current technology cannot replicate it.


We can build far more precise stuff than the pyramids. We are just starting to build at an atomic level, nano-technology. Not being able to build the pyramids today is just a common myth, look at just the Opera House for instance. Not that they aren't impressive structures, I doubt we'll have anything left in 4,500 years.

from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Probe_B


At the time, the gyroscopes were the most nearly spherical objects ever made. Approximately the size of ping pong balls, they are perfectly round to within forty atoms (less than 10 nm). If scaled to the size of the earth, the tallest mountains would be 2.4 m (8 ft) high.


IBM:

www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV1003.html

From the Pyramid site:
Mean Distance to the Sun: Half of the length of the diagonal of the base times 10^6 = average distance to the sun


Using the SE diagonal Base times 10^6 = 162,000,000m or 162,000Km.
The sun is 149,597,890km away. Out by 10,000%

Interestingly my wife is 1.49m tall, when multiplied by 10^9 it is the average distance to the sun.

But there's more. In fact this fact may shock you so much you may believe that I hold supernatural powers and secrets to the keys of the universe.

[awe inspiring music]

My penis is 17.46cm long. Multiplied by 365.25 (days in year) = 6,378.14, the equatorial radius of the Earth in KM. Exactly. True story.




Seek and ye shall find.

maxm
NSW, 864 posts
1 Mar 2010 6:22PM
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evlPanda said...

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We can build far more precise stuff than the pyramids. We are just starting to build at an atomic level, nano-technology. Not being able to build the pyramids today is just a common myth, look at just the Opera House for instance. Not that they aren't impressive structures, I doubt we'll have anything left in 4,500 years.


Well said, evl one.

Computer chips commonly have to worry about quantum effects and research is hotting up into the building of quantum computers - ie computers whose processing uses sub-atomic parts. I'd like to see the ancient Egyptians build even an old, clunky 1960's semiconductor. It's not like they didn't have the sand!

Richiefish
QLD, 5612 posts
1 Mar 2010 6:45PM
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so what are you saying about the length of the pharaohs penis ???

TrevNewman
VIC, 237 posts
2 Mar 2010 12:11AM
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evlPanda said...


My penis is 17.46cm long. Multiplied by 365.25 (days in year) = 6,378.14, the equatorial radius of the Earth in KM. Exactly. True story.



17.46cm, that is very precise, can ask the method/tools you used to come up with that exact measurement, surely there is room for a bit of variation in the measurement of at least 0.5cm dependent on various factors.

saltiest1
NSW, 2575 posts
2 Mar 2010 12:21AM
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evlPanda said...

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[awe inspiring music]

My penis is 17.46cm long. Multiplied by 365.25 (days in year) = 6,378.14, the equatorial radius of the Earth in KM. Exactly. True story.







WTF ??


Is that all?



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