Ancient Egyptian Had Airplanes???

[TragicMonkey]

No, I mean vertical as in, "shaped like a fish tail fin", not merely pointing upwards.

Sometimes birds have to poop really badly. You try eating nothing but seeds, and you'll learn what constipation can do.

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

Sometimes birds have to poop really badly. You try eating nothing but seeds, and you'll learn what constipation can do.

But what about raptors? Do Secretary Birds instead have uncontrolable poopage and thus stinky tail feathers?

 

[geni]

It is odd that gliders came so late. Silk bamboo or some carefuly chose wood have been around for over 2000 years and it only needed a few guys to do a bit of experimenting for progress to be made. The problem appears to have been that everyone looked at birds and tried to build something that flapped.

 

[TragicMonkey]

But what about raptors? Do Secretary Birds instead have uncontrolable poopage and thus stinky tail feathers?

I missed the episode of Oprah devoted to that topic.

 

[Jiri]

Well actually, during the show they cited some unknown hieroglyphs recently found that "appeared" to resemble a plane, helicopter, boat, & submarine...I didn't think they looked like any of those things but I'm no fancy archeologist.

As for the toy scaling up, they actually put it through a flight simulator that tests fighter jet designs and it flew quite well on the air streams with a human pilot. I don't know how he was able to steer it but then again I'm not sure how gliders work, maybe he shifted his body weight...or something.

It is very good for you not to be reminded of advanced craft by the glyphs from Seti I's temple at Abydos, because there is some very conclusive proof that the glyphs are not so called "palimpsests", as the consensus goes still. Should these glyphs not be palimpsests, then what might they be?

 

[ponderingturtle]

In his book The Bermuda Triangle - and at least one of its sequels, The Devil's Triangle (which refers to an area in the Sea of Japan), woo author Charles Berlitz for some reason feels compelled to launch into a digression about the ancients having marvellous technology. Berlitz sites passages of the Mahabharata and Ramayana as evidence that the ancient Indians had not only airplanes, but rocket-powered fighter jets, missiles, and nuclear weapons. The Egyptians weren't as advanced, apparently; the most they had was the toy glider and electricity - as evidenced by bas reliefs depicting light bulbs (Okay, I'll give Berlitz that one - they're not really light bulbs of course, but it doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to see light bulbs there).

Those are not light bulbs but electric eggplants, I mean if you can run an electric current through a pickel and make it glow why not an eggplant? All it takes is soaking it in salt water.