@AHC_Channel@history_rev My AIs have failed to find a single demonstration, whether video or image, of someone splitting rock using a wooden wedge, let alone making the hole of the wedge.
@AHC_Channel@history_rev I don't know much about the site, but it does look like the pillars were toppled and re-erected.
The site was also in total ruins either by intention or natural disaster.
@AHC_Channel@history_rev Where is that first big stone located?
The Egyptian ones look like a later culture attempting to recycle the stone. It's as if the Romans had no use for the stones with hieroglyphs and wanted to repose it or destroy it since the teeth were cut into the underlying symbol.
I believe the common explanation for these types of toothed indents is that wood would be placed inside of one, then soaked to cause it to expand, which would cause the stone to crack along the plane of the teeth.
Do you agree? The Iranian indents seem to be on a much larger scale, and in the ground?
@AHC_Channel@history_rev Interestingly, the stone is smooth where the nubs are, and scraped above. Perhaps a closer picture would tell a different story.
But if true, why go through the effort of smoothing in a quarry? Is the smoothing the effect of a technological process?
@TheProjectUnity This would be the second inundation mentioned by the Egyptian Priests to Herodotus in Histories Book 3: An Account of Egypt.
So, not the Ogygian Inundation mentioned by Solon, but the "Food" of Atrahasis/Deucalion/Ziusudra/Utnapishtim ~4800 - 4400 BCE.
General relativity mistakenly turns the abstract concept of time into a physical existent.
Gravity can alter the path and rate of motion, but that's just a change in the standard of measure in the same way that making IPK out of chocolate would introduce a variance in the standard.
https://t.co/f7WBZVWyZG
If you want to understand what time is, or teach your kids, here's an at-home demonstration:
1. Clap your hands at a slow and constant rate.
2. While clapping, walk across the room and count how many claps it took you to get to the other side.
That's time. Nothing more. It's that simple. We use the earth's rotation instead of a clap.
It's not a Sony Walkman that can be rewound and recorded over.
Time is just a relationship between a constant motion and what ever you're measuring against that motion.
Your first sentence is a strawman.
Your second sentence infuses your perspective of "indiscriminate and sacrificial", or unconditional, which doesn't refute my point, it just hammers yours over mine.
The crux of the disagreement is whether the American government was formed to protect the rights of Americans, or anyone and everyone, regardless of whether they are American.
"Rights protections are universal."
Where do you draw the line? Does Operation Freedom Iraq qualify under your definition of universal?
@ChipActual@MarkRPellegrino "Itโs protecting the people whose rights those institutions exist to serve."
This is the key. American government exists to serve Americans โnot everyone. It wasn't formed to indiscriminately and sacrificially serve anyone just because they possess a conceptual faculty.
@jvin248@nobulart@EthicalSkeptic Nice! Trees grow in the direction of the sunlight, so these asymmetrical rings are indicative of the direction of the sun, which ties north/south.
One tree's ring asymmetry would only tell us about that tree. Multiple could be used as an indicator of something broader.
This morning in Cusco, a man hit the iconic twelve-angled stone with a hammer several times, causing irreversible damage. He's since been arrested.
Video credit: El Buho.
@SJosephBurns This may be why aurora at lower latitudes is happening more frequently.
Here's proof of great flood. The pyramids of Giza were submerged.
https://t.co/SNDkIPB2XS
It is not just one anomalous observation. The tools, human activity show that something happened onsite in the Fourth Dynasty, not that a specific thing happened. 6 of your 7 bullet points are not evidence, but inductive suggestion - having no bearing on the actual date of construction.
Inductive evidence is always "interconnected" - because that is the nature of how inductive evidence stands to begin with, that is not a salient framing of its differentiating merit.
Neither is all evidence equal. One must prioritize deductive evidence over inductive suggestion. To wit, regarding your single deductive bullet point:
The quarry mark ochre is painted over two distinct patina types (anerobic and goethite) that take 3 to 5,000 years to form well AFTER stone finishing. This is fatal to the authenticity of the marks.
All the cartouches are in the same penmanship and ochre formulation - and bear NO quarry dust, or handling disruption. Nor are they engineering/construction marks in any form, save for a couple heiratic numerals:
The numeral heiratic script on the ceiling blocks are painted upside down and used incorrect heiratic script and placement.
Vyse did not allow anyone to enter the chamber with him to document these when originally observed. Therefore, no corroboration of origin under the scientific method.
The marks are painted as if to disappear behind the in situ stone, but the artist had to turn their hand to avoid the in situ stone in several cases while applying the marks.
The "quarry marks" are placed both upright and upside down, but also AROUND the in-situ floor and ceiling stones. This is impossible, except under forgery.
The erosion band on the top of Khafre was from oceanic tidal banding (the only possibility).
The MASSIVE (tens of thousands of tons) travertine formations found in the subterranean chamber passage and all across the base of both larger pyramids - require carbonic acid dissolution and then time to reconstitute their carbonate chains.
The quarry mark ochre has not been 14C dated (and can be, as it has an organic vehicle and binder) ... this last refusal to date on the part of Egyptolopgy is the final nail in the coffin of this fabricated argument and lack of ethics.
One does not use dolomite sounding balls and grappling hooks in building a pyramid, one does not displace/chizel a block in situ in oder to build a pyramid. 800 year old wood would not be used in (Dixon Relics) tomb raiding implements as it is too brittle and depleted of lignin/cellulose strength.
These are all fatal to the Narrative. The great preponderance of evidence deductively converges on an older structure. The Narrative Fourth Dynasty evidence is down to 0 salient observations now.