takeachance
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Message #4927 posted by takeachance (Info) January 22, 2007 21:05:58 ET
Want to know how the Egyptians built the pyramids? I do and after thinking about it a lot, I suspect it was from the strategic use of people, structure, sand and water. With no use of modern power tools they achieved goals that are remarkable even by today’s standards.
They didn’t have much but they did have people, sand and water. It was important that the people needed to be put to work so they couldn’t conspire coup attempts all hours of the day and night. This was their economy and it seemed to work for generations with astounding effects.
I suspect they were able to achieve their goals because of strategic use of their abundant natural resources; the people, the Nile, and the sand.
Through trenches and tanks dug by hand and beast, the Nile supplied a great potential for the builders. Via step-up locks and floating pontoons, I envision a huge working group comprised mainly of people with buckets of sand and others with buckets of water, or maybe manual driven waterwheels, but in essence they used many differentials to add up to a greater function.
I also suspect they used the Pythagorean Theorem to distribute the weight onto floating platforms coupled with hemp rope and reed braces that distributed weight of a single massive block onto a great many equally weight distributing barges or pontoons. This uses the buoyant effect of water and takes advantage of the fluidous nature of floating objects. I can see ten thousand people walking up a ramp to pour water into the next upper level lock. Then I see another thousand filling sand onto the counter bucket weights that work as the counterbalance for the stone creating lift. Do that a number of times and you got it to the placement height.
That is what our generation is lacking, vision….cooperative vision. That is why we have not advanced further into space and I fear it is to our demise as earthlings.
America must become open to new avenues into space. It must get more repeatable and in a much more cost effective manner; preferably one that doesn’t pollute or destroy the earth in the process.
I believe the pyramid launcher or some other ocean driven pellet-gun type orbital launcher might be a path closer than our current shuttle and multi-stage rocket vehicles. Using a similar strategy to how the pyramids were built, I suggest we use the ocean to launch payloads into orbit. If nothing else, use it to throw a multi-stage rocket high into the high atmosphere to where it can then start its propulsion. Firing engines from higher up would effectively allow much less engine and fuel weight to be required for orbit launch. In my opinion, onboard required fuel and engine weight are currently the greatest inefficiencies in our launch methods.
Hell is seeing the potential undone.
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