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by ncmncm 4y ago
I would describe them as pecked. The lines are not even straight.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
As I said, we will need to wait for a generation of Egyptologists not so eager to attribute everything to whoever was last to scratch his name onto it.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
A quick DDG image search turns up https://www.ancient-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/saqq... https://www.theancientconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021...
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Example: https://www.ancient-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/saqq...
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Their physical execution is crude. We may presume they were transcribed from papyrus written by poets laureate of the period.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
How do they get the laser out there? What powers it?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Presumably the energy would then be delivered to where it is needed via laser. With so many high-power laser beams going all the time, inner-system navigation might be hazardous. All the more reason to stay out in the Kuiper Belt.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Nobody suggested they were not made by Egyptians. You made that up, too. We don't know which generation of Egyptians did the top quality work. As already noted, inscriptions only establish a lower bound on age, but no upper bound. Evid
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Exactly. If they could still do high-quality work: mirror-smooth surfaced, extra-hard diorite, carved with exact bilateral symmetry, you would expect to find some of it done for highest-status people, even if it were no longer squandered on
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You may look at the stuff carved on the outside of the Saqqara boxes yourself. Even images you can find online are wholly adequate to reveal how crude they are.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
A series on YouTube, Origins of Precision, can help you get up to speed. It is not surprising that historians and archaeologists are not, as a rule, up on that material. But they have no excuse after it was explained to them. There is also
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by ncmncm 4y ago
So, even less plausible than a solar-system-sized radio telescope.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The planet does not need the power; it gets all it needs. It is used in space. They don't crash into each other for the same reason our satellites (mostly) don't: they are in selected orbits. But if we have not worked out aneutron
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by ncmncm 4y ago
There has been no hint of any answer to this question. Did they think no one would notice?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It is never even hinted how any information could ever be communicated back to Earth. It makes me think the whole project is not serious, like launching Voyager with no Deep Space Network to listen. Are they hoping that over the 40 years it
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by ncmncm 4y ago
We can be confident that whoever crudely tagged the boxes did not make them. We do not know when they were made, which is to say which generation of Egyptians made them, or for what, or how, or why they left one in the middle of the hallway
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You interjected the "or maybe aliens" yourself. Nobody else even hinted at it. You reveal that you never had any intention of engaging honestly.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Obviously Egyptians made everything. Who else, aliens? At issue is how. We do not know. No one is working on it, or anyway publishing. Pretending there is no mystery, as is the habit lately, is not honest.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Loss of skills is wholly plausible. Failure, over centuries of development, to re-develop those skills remains a mystery, but is also plausible. The real mystery is that we have no hint of how those feats were achieved, or achievable, with
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It is not. Remnants -- turbine blades -- will survive. Plastic will last for geological eons.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Lost skills is wacky, now?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
That does not account for the entire lack of late, smaller, top-grade work. So, maybe 100-ton mirror-smooth columns no longer impress. Not making anything mirror-smooth, at any scale, or anything 100 tons even if no smooth, really calls i
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by ncmncm 4y ago
By report all are empty now. There are crudely carved inscriptions on some that are very obviously not by whoever did the exquisite original work of making the boxes. Tagging work that was already ancient was a favorite activity of dynastic
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by ncmncm 4y ago
So it appears grave robbers did get there first, but left the mummy case alone. It is good that they acknowledge tunnels were re-used by later generations, but unfortunate that they still think the Ramesses were not such generations. We wil
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I leave it to someone else to explain things to you. I can only pray that no one's safety depends on your understanding of physics.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Sure, what's your address?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
"Counteracted" by force through tension in the cable. Which relies on the cable holding up its own weight. So, in no way "effectively weightless", unless you consider a regular bridge deck weightless because cables are
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The correct figure, as noted elsewhere, is 146 km. But literally the only thing holding up almost all of the span from geosynchronous orbit down to the ground is the pure strength of the cable. Centrifugal force would act usefully mainly
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by ncmncm 4y ago
And now we have SLS, and a planned lunar space station whose only purpose is to be a place SLS can get to; the moon itself being out of reach. Make no mistake, a lunar space station, no matter its name, is not a gateway to anywhere. The onl
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Space elevators depend utterly on extreme material strength to be possible at all, and on centrifugal force only to stay taut. They could be practical with known materials on Mars, but there is nothing there worth building one for.

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