Lost Civilizations: Before the known

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#343

Something else with the professionals in the field I alluded to when I mentioned careers getting in the way, the difficulties of the politics in academia. I don’t, can’t from my inadequately informed position fault the earnest pursuit of truth by people willing to devote their lives to that sort of rigor. I’m very thankful they exist. The funding for these things doesn’t come from sympathetic billionaires interested in the truth (now there’s Bigfoot for ya) but from contributors looking to put their sticker on the car :racing_car:.

Also in the case of Egypt I can understand why someone like Zahi Hawass has a hardon for the British Museum and a deep resentment for all the previous Victorian inanity. It’s one thing to destroy the evidence of your own culture with self pandering self aggrandizing bs. One episode of Time Team is enough to see that. But imagine the evidence of your culture being carried off by sanctimonious pricks to be “studied” and then having their steampunk analysis foisted on the world while you are denied the opportunity. I’d be pissed too.

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#344

Aside: the Rosetta Stone is a tax document.

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#345

Barney Rubbles tax return?

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#346

How do you suggest they knew the speed of light?

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Look at the speed of light in meters per second, and then go back and look at the latitude of the Great Pyramid. Same numbers out to six or possibly more digits
Coincidence? Coincidence that the pyramid is at the center of the earth’s land masses? Coincidence that the dimensions of the pyramid are an exact fraction of the Earth’s diameter around the poles and around the equator? Are you just f****** around? Or do you really believe it’s all a coincidence? And if it’s not a coincidence how did they know this stuff?

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#347

I’m told the folk who built Angkor Wat knew about procession. Just how the hell they could know that is something I’d like to hear explained

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#348

Well as we’re all doing our best to demonstrate here “thinking” and “knowing” ain’t the same thing.

Cyclic numerical behavior is one of those natural things we saw and screwed with and geometry was one byblow. :joy:

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#349

Procession or precession?

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#350

Lol probably both, that dam AutoCorrect thing will start a war one day

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#351

Something about exempting the priest class from certain forms of taxation.

What else is new? :joy:

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#352

I can definitely see the advantages in having your own cult :thinking:

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#353

If you mean the effect of torque on axial stability, define “understood” in this case. Are you saying they understood it like we do? I doubt that just because they thought in their language. Could they apply what they grokked about forces from their observation? No doubt.

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#354

The circular saw blade I use it’s around a sixteenth of an inch thick and it is difficult to make a cut with accuracy closer than a 32 of an inch. How could ropes cut something to the thousandth of an inch? I’m just now seeing this. I spent my whole life using my hands.
These guys knew the circumference of the earth before they set a stone down. Every stone was cut so precisely that they knew in advance how many stones it would take to go from corner to corner of the pyramid and end up with the proper measurement . even a tiny Gap in any of the stones along the way would throw the measurements off for the rest of the structure. The mistake made early amplifies throughout the construction process. When I put blocks in between floor joists, if my cutter makes every single board even a 64th of an inch long by the time I came to the end of the house my joists are out an entire inch. These guys were accurate to within a thousandth of an inch . Maybe one needs to be a builder to appreciate and fathom what was done. In my mind the technology of the finished product far surpasses the accuracy of the tools archaeologists claim were used to build it

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#355

Seemingly they had the numbers that represent precession repeated all over the site. Maybe the monkeys that hurl their own shite at tourists are actually reincarnated mathematician monks who are still pissed about Pol Pot

Seem it on the telly so it must be true :rofl:

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#356

I agree, they can’t.

That may be true. It’s not a difficult math problem once you have the epiphany. Once you understand the earth is curved that’s something you feel you just have to find out right?

Where exactly? How I approach that depends on what the circumstance is.

I’ve got a true story for this one. I just blazed that Oaxaca bud, yooooour gonna have to give me a minute.

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#357

Are we related? BWAHAHAHA!!! :rofl:

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#358

Probably…could be shared Celtic ancestry.

Or maybe years of excessive ganja consumption means we’re all starting to think alike :rofl:

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#359

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#360

I can’t tell if that’s butter or velvetta. :joy:

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#361

Yes, it’s a coincidence. They didn’t use measure in meters either. They used cubits. So…the distance light travels in meters per second wouldn’t even apply. Remember, the meter is from 1793…a bit after ancient Egypt. Wonder what the speed of light would be converted to cubits…

Is it the exact center of the earth’s landmasses? Measured from where? It’s not a contiguous landmass. I actually have a degree in geography so I’m interested to hear this one.

What dimensions of the pyramid? Everything is a fraction of something.

Sounds kinda like numerology woo-woo.

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#362

It’s all just bubbles and tubes really, that’s all the universe is compromised of, little bubbles and tubes.

And with the energy thing. If it can’t be destroyed, well then that’s eternal right?

Also the movie the One with jet li. That kinda makes sense, but I’m guessing the more parallel me’s that die probably mean I become more like that right, but unknown to me, so does it really matter?

I like reading. The universe in a nut shell and a brief history of time are good reads. I suggest a nice cap and puff before diving in.

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