Jiri
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Isn't it amazing that museums will give some people access but not others? I wonder how they make that determination? Hmmmm.
Sometimes they make mistakes, too.
Isn't it amazing that museums will give some people access but not others? I wonder how they make that determination? Hmmmm.
Jiri said:In that case, what you call hunter-gatherer societies had the most leasure time available, especially if they were more gatherers than hunters. Rather than waste time on building pyramids they could tinker and invent. They had up to 200,000 years to do that since such is the dating of the oldest fossils of physiologically true Sapiens Sapient.
Ummm, nope. Hunter-gatherers spend the majority of their time collecting food to eat, because it isn't located in one place they have to move around constantly searching for food. In other words, they were nomadic.
This also means that they can't develop any technology which involves large structures or machines, since they can't caryy those with them. It isn't until Homo Sapiens started to develop agriculture and ceased being nomadic that they could begin to really develop technology, because they then had more spare time, and weren't constantly on the move.
Just as there are zero pictures of any other tools. Which by your intimated argument means those tools didn't exist. Hoist by your own petard?
Because no evidence exists that they had pulleys. However, experimental archeologists are finding interesting and inventive ways to reproduce Egyptian structures using only the technology that was known to be available at the time.
The trouble for modern humans is that we have the tools to do this easily, which means that it's very hard for us to see how it could be done with only basic tools. If anything, I think you are the one who gives these people too little credit. They were able to build incredibly complex, massive structure to quite exacting standards with only fairly basic tools, and we modern humans haven't worked out exactly how they did it. To me that's seriously impressive.
But you appear to believe that they required tools passed down to them from some prehistoric superculture, or aliens, which is to completely remove the credit from the egyptian builders and pass it off to myth.
Our digestive systems are adapted to an omnivorous diet, because our ancestors were nomadic opportunists. Very few places on Earth naturally have such a ready plentiful supply of food for any length of time as you seem to suggest. And "good ole Paleolithic times"? Remember them well do you?To the low numbers of humans, many places they lived in were like the garden of Eden. In places, it must have been a little like living in an orchard, or next to a big pantry. Food was plentiful, and everyone was rich in that respect. People have vegetarian digestive systems, best adapted to nuts as the main source of protein. With just a little effort, one could probably create plentiful stores of durable food, such as nuts, dried fruits and vegies, wild grains, and honey. Thus, there was no need for moving great distances, unless you had a herd mentality, had meat on your brain, and wanted to follow the herds from the shores of Atlantic to the ranges of the Urals.If not, you could build a comfortable house, such as found at Gonnensdorf (of 12,000 years ago), and devote yourself to a bit of gardening, or tinkering with things in your workshop.
Did you ever pause to reflect on how the Garden of Eden could just be the memory of good ole Paleolithic times ?
Did you ever pause to reflect on how come the Bible opens up with the correct supermodern definition of what people should eat? Where did that knowledge come from? The herdsmen?
The move to settled agriculture allowed humans to keep animals penned, rather than following and hunting, which meant a more ready supply of protein rich food, not to mention dairy produce.They became enslaved to their herds, and providing food for their cattle and pigs were the primary stimuli for agriculture, which is a euphemism for agri-barbarism![]()
Can't have it both ways. If you want to argue that a lack of pictures of one thing indicates that that thing didn't happen, then you have to accept that a lack of pictures of another thing indicates that that thing also didn't happen.My petard blew up over your head..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0And they fail in their pathetic attempts so miserably. Just to test you, how would you transport those 50 to 70 tons heavy Granite blocks up to the King's Chamber?
Just because you can't see how it could be done doesn't mean that it can't be done.To me it is seriously impossible in great many cases.![]()
Again, nope, because we can see a slow steady progression in technology from the wheel up to the modern technology used to build skyscrapers. Your argument goes backwards, saying, in essence, that the wheel came from degraded skyscraper technology. An argument for which there is zero evidence.By your logic America didn't build the skyscrapers, because the wheel was invented in Mesopotamia..![]()
Just to test you, how would you transport those 50 to 70 tons heavy Granite blocks up to the King's Chamber?
Damn, Hokulele appears to have called it.
Well done. This line holder does extrapolate to (it forces) several straight lines. Both of us should produce the same lines based on this lineholder, else we'd have to be blind. Go ahead and show us how it is done, and that you now understand this part of the method.
Atta boy, Belz![]()
I fail to see what Sneferu proves, as he was an OK pharaoh, which is exactly when I said pyramids were built.
As for the sphinx, its earliest theorized builder would still place it in the OK as well. You really are making no sence with this.
There is no support for this and most anthropolgists think otherwise. because hunter gatherer society also required constant migration and the movement of camps etc to be effective. At the very least it required extended trips away to go outside of the local area.In that case, what you call hunter-gatherer societies had the most leasure time available, especially if they were more gatherers than hunters. Rather than waste time on building pyramids they could tinker and invent. They had up to 200,000 years to do that since such is the dating of the oldest fossils of physiologically true Sapiens Sapient.
yes but it does give strong dating to the time of the pyramids and evidence of what tools were used etc.They could have been working anywhere in the vicinity. What you say is no final proof of anything. even if they too had worked on the Pyramid.
show me one picture of your special tools.. YOu can't, but I can show you evidence of the tools I support as being there.Show me one picture of them building a big pyramid using those tools. You can't, there are zero such pictures.
I am not talking abou the masses I am talking abou the government and its use of the armies etc. There is evidence that government used its more advanced bronze weapons etc in combat and its attempts to take control of Syria/Palestive, but what it did have was not sufficient and the tools you suggest are not present in the archaeological record at all.Indeed, you need much better tools to build a big pyramid. But, the Egyptologists will not even allow the builders use of pulleys.
Egypt had its temples. Their knowledge was not handed out to the masses.
La Marche and Nazca do give evidence of advanced ancient science. Cyclopean architecture also points materially to an unknown prehistoric civilisation. Tihuanaco gives you Stone-Age architecture, and so does the Sphinx, the two temples nearby Sphinx, Osireion, etc. Did we forget about the Yonaguni structures?
http://www.morien-institute.org/imk9.html#caveout
You get the model planes, especially the golden ones from South America. You have the Abydos Helicopter code.
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Plato places Atlantis between Europe and the Americas, on a Cuba sized island, somewhere, but you already knew that
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To the low numbers of humans, many places they lived in were like the garden of Eden. In places, it must have been a little like living in an orchard, or next to a big pantry. Food was plentiful, and everyone was rich in that respect. People have vegetarian digestive systems, best adapted to nuts as the main source of protein. With just a little effort, one could probably create plentiful stores of durable food, such as nuts, dried fruits and vegies, wild grains, and honey. Thus, there was no need for moving great distances, unless you had a herd mentality, had meat on your brain, and wanted to follow the herds from the shores of Atlantic to the ranges of the Urals.If not, you could build a comfortable house, such as found at Gonnensdorf (of 12,000 years ago), and devote yourself to a bit of gardening, or tinkering with things in your workshop.
Did you ever pause to reflect on how the Garden of Eden could just be the memory of good ole Paleolithic times ?
Did you ever pause to reflect on how come the Bible opens up with the correct supermodern definition of what people should eat? Where did that knowledge come from? The herdsmen?
A more likely model is that agriculture was the stimuli for agriculture, it would have provided a huge amount of nutrients that they needed. Also don't forget that even up through early complex societies such as egypt, fishing, foraging, and hunting were all very important parts of nutrition as well.They became enslaved to their herds, and providing food for their cattle and pigs were the primary stimuli for agriculture, which is a euphemism for agri-barbarism![]()
yes, to you, but you do not have thousands of unpaid workers to do the job for you.And they fail in their pathetic attempts so miserably. Just to test you, how would you transport those 50 to 70 tons heavy Granite blocks up to the King's Chamber?
To me it is seriously impossible in great many cases.![]()
Sometimes they make mistakes, too.
Oh yeah? How so, give an example, for I am unaware of showing you anything else but standard number relationships.
Someone will be belittled here, you, or the Stone-Age mathematicians. Being obstinately blind to their logic makes you seem incapable of understanding it. It is just a natural consequence of what you do.
Why was I steadfastly ignored by the museum? Not even a ranking French diplomat could make Monsieur Henry de Lumley give me a promised reply.. Why don't you try on my behalf? Where is your intellectual curiosity, and I'm sorry to say, integrity? Would you recommend that I be given access to the vaults with the La Marche materials? No, you would not, you would warn the museum against letting an 'obvious cracpot' across its porch.
I did not expect anything else. You see, our estimations are mutual. You think I am a nut, and I think the same of you and everybody on your side. It's not that I think you to be obtuse, so help me, you are just not willing to pay attention to my factual research observations because of your mental blocks.
On the whole measureing the origional thing, I would just like to note that last night I watched my girlfriend working on a comparative study of mammalian claw bones, and her measurments were accurate to the fraction of a fraction of a millimeter. That is what you should be targeting Jiri.Well, that is not my concern. You are the one who has leapt to a conclusion based on incomplete or faulty information. If you were unable to access the original source, then why were you so hasty to go out and measure such a crude representation?
If you have a legitimate scholarly interest in this (as opposed to simply wanting it to be true), perhaps you would be best off taking your theories to a university archaeological department. Perhaps they would be able to arrange a way for you to measure the source piece. At the least, you could present your findings to them for review.
Well, I can't read Jiri's page, the Great Firewall of China prevents it, but I can answer this one claim. The first accurate measurement of the precession of the equinoxes was made By Sir Edmund Halley in 1718. He did it by comparing the positions of bright stars to those noted by Ptolemy and Hipparchus. The Greek astronomers were fastidious measurers and notetakers, and they never gave an accurate value for the equinoctial precession.-That the ancients calculated the precession of the Earth.
Well, I can't read Jiri's page, the Great Firewall of China prevents it, but I can answer this one claim. The first accurate measurement of the precession of the equinoxes was made By Sir Edmund Halley in 1718. He did it by comparing the positions of bright stars to those noted by Ptolemy and Hipparchus. The Greek astronomers were fastidious measurers and notetakers, and they never gave an accurate value for the equinoctial precession.
The problem is the accuracy of the positional measurement. The precession is less than 1 arcminute per year, so if your measurement accuracy is 1 arcminute (which is better than the Greeks had) then you can't measure any motion over a 1 year period, your errors swamp the measurement. To get a reasonable measurement would take over 100 years, assuming your measuring device remained perfectly constant over that period. But there's no guarantee of that with the sorts of measuring tools the Greeks had, and it gets worse if you go further back in time. The best measure the Greeks had was over the 170 years between Ptolemy and Hipparchus, and Ptolemy's measurement were gleaned form other sources, which introduces additional errors. This means that the errors were quite large. Halley was taking a measurement base of almost 2000 years, which makes the positional errors tiny in comparison to the distance the equinox had precessed in that time. These days we have the ability to measure stellar positions to less than 1 arcsecond, far smaller than the equinoctial precession, which allows us to make accurate measurements over a period of just a few years.Thank you, sir.
Perhaps Jiri has some evidence that this is incorrect, and that Stone Age primitives accurately computed the rate of precession.
If you want an idea of how small arcminutes and arcseconds are hold out you thumb at arms length. It should be approximately 30 arcminutes across. An arcsecond is one 60th of an arcminute, so 1/1800th of the width of your thumb. Now try measuring a change in position of 1 arcminute without a telescope. That was the challenge for the Greeks, and Jiri's "ancients".