Anomalocaris Posted June 20, 2016 #1 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Great Pyramid of Giza Is Slightly Lopsided Quote The Great Pyramid of Giza may be a Wonder of the Ancient World, but it's not perfect: Its base is a little lopsided because its builders made a teensy mistake when constructing it, new research reveals. Read more at Live Science Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionmark Posted June 20, 2016 #2 Share Posted June 20, 2016 What? The Martians committed an error? Impossible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted June 20, 2016 #3 Share Posted June 20, 2016 That assumes all of the missing stones were of the same size, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmt_sesh Posted June 20, 2016 #4 Share Posted June 20, 2016 4 hours ago, paperdyer said: That assumes all of the missing stones were of the same size, correct? It's already understood that the average size of the masonry blocks overall is around 2.5 tons. A few of the blocks have indeed fallen out of place, but the majority of the missing masonry is comprised of the Turah limestone casing stones which were removed from most of the pyramids in the early Islamic period. So, overall, that's not going to compromise the team's findings. An interesting article. It's great to see how legitimate science is being applied to these ancient monuments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmt_sesh Posted June 20, 2016 #5 Share Posted June 20, 2016 4 hours ago, questionmark said: What? The Martians committed an error? Impossible! Come now, you know it was not the fault of our ancient alien overlords. They forced us humans to do all of the work, and we're deeply flawed. I suspect the aliens got so frustrated and tired of us that this is why they abandoned us so many ages ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted June 20, 2016 #6 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Quote This means that, at most, the west side was only 5.55 inches (14.1 centimeters) longer than the east side. Though that would leave the pyramid not quite square, it's a remarkable level of precision for a monument constructed more than 4,500 years ago, the researchers noted. "The data show that the Egyptians possessed quite remarkable skills for their time," Dash wrote in the report. "We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such precision using only the tools they had." *** The fact that the degree of error is almost the same and that it is so small provides "good evidence that the pyramid and its associated temple were laid out on a common, very precisely oriented grid," Dash said. link ~ What's a couple of inches between the gaps eh ? ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilthor Posted June 20, 2016 #7 Share Posted June 20, 2016 This article in no way diminishes the astonishment of those of us so (chronically) inclined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmt_sesh Posted June 20, 2016 #8 Share Posted June 20, 2016 1 hour ago, third_eye said: link ~ What's a couple of inches between the gaps eh ? ... Good enough for government work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F3SS Posted June 21, 2016 #9 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Somebody bumped the string. The surveyors laid it out the stakes perfectly then some hungover laborer wasn't watching where he was going and tripped over the string. He thought he should fix it but nobody noticed and he thought eh it ain't my job. All in all I don't blame him. It took thousands of years for anyone to notice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F3SS Posted June 21, 2016 #10 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Fwiw, 5 inches over a few hundred feet is pretty much perfect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Unicorn Posted June 21, 2016 #11 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I'm not a pyramid expert but that is still very accurate! Considering the age,repairs, and past climate effecting it, could something in climate have caused some of it, like a tremor or flood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F3SS Posted June 21, 2016 #12 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I'm pretty sure it sits on an enormous slab of bedrock and a slight shift over eons could be possible but how do we know this inaccuracy wasn't corrected with the capstones? It could have been built out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraldnewfie Posted June 21, 2016 #13 Share Posted June 21, 2016 yet we cant build skyscrapers that last 100 years or anything at that matter, yet these still amaze people on how it was made 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Unicorn Posted June 21, 2016 #14 Share Posted June 21, 2016 2 hours ago, geraldnewfie said: yet we cant build skyscrapers that last 100 years or anything at that matter, yet these still amaze people on how it was made Yeah, the Pyramid stood up to time better than any of our modern structures so far. We don't seem to want to build anything so permanent or as accurate as the Ancient Egyptians did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted June 21, 2016 #15 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Modern buildings are very accurate, if you build a skyscraper being off by a few inches can be a big problem. The pyramids are stacked stone, essentially man made mountains. And they aren't built that we'll, there are lots of empty voids, backfills of sand and rubble. It used to be covered with a nice polished facade, though that's long been removed. And as for why we don't build them today, well we don't have any god kings. In terms of plain engineering, the Gothic cathedrals or Roman collesium, or even the modern skyscraper are much much more impressive feats of engineering. The pyramids are much less complex, and due to that and what they are made of have lasted more intact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastieRunner Posted June 21, 2016 #16 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Maybe when the capstone got added it messed up the balance ... haha ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmt_sesh Posted June 22, 2016 #17 Share Posted June 22, 2016 6 hours ago, shadowsot said: Modern buildings are very accurate, if you build a skyscraper being off by a few inches can be a big problem. The pyramids are stacked stone, essentially man made mountains. And they aren't built that we'll, there are lots of empty voids, backfills of sand and rubble. It used to be covered with a nice polished facade, though that's long been removed. And as for why we don't build them today, well we don't have any god kings. In terms of plain engineering, the Gothic cathedrals or Roman collesium, or even the modern skyscraper are much much more impressive feats of engineering. The pyramids are much less complex, and due to that and what they are made of have lasted more intact We don't have any god-kings? You dare say this with the Evil Overlord Mummy Moderator around? Kidding, really. God-kings are so yesterday. The closest we have today is Donald Trump—Life! Prosperity! Health! Now I'm really kidding. But you don't even have to goes as recent as the Coliseum or skyscrapers for an example. Less than a thousand years after they built the Great Pyramid, the Egyptians were erecting their great temple precinct at Karnak. And that temple complex represents an engineering and building advance several orders of magnitude greater than the pyramid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woopypooky Posted June 22, 2016 #18 Share Posted June 22, 2016 11 hours ago, shadowsot said: Quote Modern buildings are very accurate, if you build a skyscraper being off by a few inches can be a big problem. Nonsense, a 20 storey building can be off by 1 feet due to combination of column skew on all 4 sides.Even if off by 1 meter, nobody is wiser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersonFromPorlock Posted June 23, 2016 #19 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Drat, And wouldn't you know, the warranty ran out last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionmark Posted June 23, 2016 #20 Share Posted June 23, 2016 On 6/22/2016 at 0:38 PM, woopypooky said: Nonsense, a 20 storey building can be off by 1 feet due to combination of column skew on all 4 sides.Even if off by 1 meter, nobody is wiser. He most probably us referring to thew scant places the pyramids have where "you can't fit a piece of paper between the stones"... which to be truthful is fitting for about all stones in it... on 20% of its surface (as you cannot place a stone to rest on a hole without defying gravity) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersonFromPorlock Posted June 25, 2016 #21 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Just as a point of interest, Baseline Road in Cherryfield, Maine, laid out as a surveyor's baseline for a federal mapping survey in 1858, was found using GPS in 1991 to be within 1 centimetre of its nominal 5.4 mile length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFOwatcher Posted June 30, 2016 #22 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Well, I find it (the study of The pyramids) all amazing and very interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizno Posted July 20, 2016 #23 Share Posted July 20, 2016 On 6/21/2016 at 7:46 AM, geraldnewfie said: yet we cant build skyscrapers that last 100 years or anything at that matter, yet these still amaze people on how it was made If we built skyscrapers out of millions of tons of rock stacked with gradual slopes, they would last as long as the pyramids as long as they were built in geologically stable areas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ailill Posted July 25, 2016 #24 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Leaning Pyramid of Giza. That should be good for tourism. Thank, aliens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanslune Posted July 26, 2016 #25 Share Posted July 26, 2016 On 6/21/2016 at 5:46 AM, geraldnewfie said: yet we cant build skyscrapers that last 100 years or anything at that matter, yet these still amaze people on how it was made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Building_(Chicago,_Illinois) The oldest standing skyscraper was built in 1891. We have built lots of things that will last thousands of years, the Maginot forts among them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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