Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "How Were the Pyramids Built?" video.

  1. Kamil's View Haven't watched the whole video, but I read the list (have you edited your post?) of "25 facts" on ancient-code site and what was on Wiki about "incredible precision". First, I'm still puzzled how one can talk about ratios and precision, when whole 7,7m (25,2 feet) of it's supposed height are gone, meaning it has never been measured with sufficient precision, only speculated. Besides, almost 6cm average error between four 230.4m sides (58mm, making ration of error 58:230400) is bigger than precision demanded from first or second year students after a couple days of tinkering with an old teodolite and a good old measuring tape, it's 2cm per kilometer (error ratio 20:1000000, which means, students with no experience are expected to do work 12.58 times higher precision than that achieved by ancient Egyptians, no lasers, no GPS, just tape and an old theodolite. Again, it's not that we can't achieve it, we just can't afford it, nobody is going to pay for such work, we have limited budget and very short deadlines, unless it's a scientific or military project. P.S. I do realize, that measuring is much easier than actually building. But asking for doing job more neatly is always answered by the guys on site the same - are YOU gonna pay me for extra work?! BTW, Egypt too couldn't actually afford this, after building the Giza complex pyramids Egypt went bankrupt and there was some turmoil for a while, later that they went with smaller scale objects.
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  2. Kamil's View I don't see these as many separate issues. Let's run a checklist: They had pretty good astronomy, so math - check. They had not centuries, but several millenia of experience in building stone structures before them, as one from Near East are aprox. 15k years old, so they were further in past compared to Egyptians who built pyramids than those Egyptians compared to us. So, experience & craftmanship - check. Time available - check. Manpower - check. Resources - check.
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  3. With WHAT precision? Pyramids are so eroded, we DON'T know to what precision they were built, as outer layers are lost, error can be as big as half a meter on each side. And there was no need to drill "internal tunnels" just as there is no need to carve out "internal rooms" in any modern building.
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  4. ohyea354 "See the Hexagram & Pentagram shape?" Now look at the classic football (soccer) ball, so called "Telstar" design, it's all pentagons and hexagons! So, obviously, guys who played football back in 1970s must have encrypted the sacred knowledge about DNA in their game!
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  5. Kamil's View Maybe I fail to see the Great Mystery because I've studied architecture, which also included some bits about gradual evolution of pyramid building techniques as part of culture and arts history course.  8D P.S. Do you know what is one of the phrases heard all too often in construction? "We can't afford to be too pedantic and build with flawless precision, because time is money!"
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  6. Alan C Alignment with celestial objects isn't that strange, IIRC what we call the constellation of Orion was considered by ancient Egyptians a figure of Osiris, their main good god, so why not make objects in that shape? After all, many Christian churches are made with a layout in the shape of cross, Buddhist temples are made to mirror their cosmological views etc. That's not the point. Stars have been used for navigation and keeping calendar for many thousands of years, might have also been used to help draw parallel lines on the building site of pyramids, So why use of astronomy is seen as something special and incredible by guys like Kamil is beyond me. Of course Egyptians somehow tried to express what they considered important! So what?
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  7. ohyea354 While Joseph is wrong abut us having evidence for each and every culture there have been your "answer" wasn't any good either. Yes, you are right, Internet has contains a lot of information, but so does tabloid newspapers and celebrity "news', that is - most of is rubbish, something like "death rays from microwave oven destroy all nutrients in your food!!!". Besides Joseph was somewhat right still if it comes to advanced civilizations, because they use... well, supposedly use materials that can stand the test of time, unless there are some other cultures that "recycle" older artifacts, like Arabs did with outer layers of pyramids, or ancient Greek bronze statues that were molten for their metal (that's why we mostly know about them from marble Roman copies). That's especially true for anything made of silver, gold and gems, like Mesoamerican and Andean cultures. Where if the culture is primitive in the technological sense, the evidence will mostly rot away as it's made mostly of organic materials.
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