by carmi » Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:50 am
Your facts are fiction, the real facts actually easily contradict all of this crap.
1. The Egyptians used fixed logs of wood and water as lubricant, at least according to their own drawings of the construction process. Not rolling logs of wood. The number of logs that needed replacement with such a technology is just one per 500 stones (according to measurements). Most wood would have been from Lebanon, a bit expensive for using it your way. By reducing the friction with water and burying the logs in the ramp (so they transport the weight force better to the ramp), you can make them last longer. About 7000 logs of wood per year is easily possible with the Egyptian economy.
2. Most stones weighted 2.75 tons, not 20 tons. You said it yourself. A gang of 20 workers, as used by the Egyptians, is able to pull such a stone, even over longer distances. The speed is maybe not high, by enough. 2 million blocks of stone in 25 years equals 220 blocks per day, or 20 blocks per working hour. Modern technology would permit easily 20 times more on such a construction. 200,000 workers had been employed at peak time in two shifts, and divided into 5 gangs of 20,000 men each, even if you assume that only half of the 20,000 had been pulling rocks, this means that 500 blocks had been pulled at a time per gang of workers: Each block could have traveled for one month from quarry to its final location (2500 blocks for 50,000 workers). Experiments even showed a pace of 18 meters per minute was possible on a 1:4 ramp.
Heavier elements need more workers: There is drawing in a tomb of 172 workers pulling a single statue, which would equate to about 25 tons mass. The question is how the 70 ton granite blocks that make the roof structure of the main tomb had been transported. At the same workforce, you would need 500 man pulling one block, which is not impossible, but extremely inefficient.
3. They did not use any cement and that is documented. Many cultures did not use cement until modern times. Also, most cultures did easily go in the
4. The Egyptians had "high-tech" Chariots (better than all contemporary civilizations) already for two centuries when the Great Pyramid was constructed. The wheel was already invented for a long time earlier. Also most early civilizations had easily millions of citizens. Alone the capital of Egypt, Memphis, had 30,000 citizens at the time of the construction, which happened only few kilometers away from Memphis.
5. Even if we still don't know all details of the construction, this does not mean aliens must have done it:
5.1. There are many possible naturalistic explanations for the documented construction, what is only missing is the evidence, which explanation remains eventually the only one.
5.2. The irony is also strong: Aliens travel for light years with technology that would still be modern today and all they do is aiding some Egyptians stacking blocks of rock for 25 years, and that in a very slow and lazy way.