Pyramids; Part 2
6. The rock piling Egyptians weren't stupid. The stones were sized and placed according to the needs of compression loading in the course runs. If you noticed the pyramid attempts before Khufu's, many of those piles blew out because the compression loading wasn't correctly factored to keep the core filler from bursting out the facet sides, leaving rubble piles.
I already discussed a ten ton stone. Do you want me to describe the 1000 ton stones the Egyptions moved on their track and sledge system? Or that you maintain the same one man/seventy five kilogram ratio for each drag team?
Now that would seem to indicate 13,400 hundred men on the ropes? Did you look at the light house we moved in 1999?
http://www.catchpenny.org/movebig.html
You use levers and the rams to shock move that huge mass thereby reducing your drag team to a more managable 1000 men. Gravity and kinetic energy substitute for muscle. Its slow, but give me a lever and a sufficiently massive ram and I can move anything-ANYTHING.
7. Lets do your calculation again shall we?
One man year=2000 hours
20 man years =40000 hours.
2,500,000 stones divided by 40000 man hours=625 stones per hour or eleven stones per minute or 2 tenths of one stone per second.
That is assuming that you are setting one course per run or one facet or had one drag team, one set team and one ram and lever team working on your rock pile.
Nope. Run three courses per facet side(This is laying blocks remember?). Run the race around your rock pile corkscrew pattern. You set twelve blocks per minute.
Now recalculate.
12x60=720 blocks per hour which matches in great excess what you have to meet to pile your pyramid in twenty years using an eight hour day. And you can do that with forty thousand men, not 100,000 men.(including the quarry cutters.).
Sounds impossible(not) even factoring rain days and accidents.
8. Now how do you dress a stone to get a perfect edge?
http://www.peter-thomson.co.uk/ancie...necutting.html
The Egyptians used vinegared wedge, copper bitted bow drills, obsidian toothed wood saws, water, and granite block polishing trowels to cut, dress and shape their stone. We see this from the tool marks on the very polished block you sight as an example. Especially since there was a quality control priest who chiselled the Pharough's inspection mark on the stones he trued up with his copper right angle!(Pesky little bureaucrat!)
The problem with construction professionals is that they are construction professionals. They have to send their kids to college and they know nothing about mummification and Cunieform B. So in reality, they can't comment on how the Egyptians mummified their dead or what Osirus meant in the religious pantheon of Egyptian gods.
Furthermore, they cannot comment on the age of the Sphinx;
http://www.sis.gov.eg/ancient/front.htm
http://www.sis.gov.eg/sphinx/html/sphnx003.htm
All I can say about Doctor Schock's work is that he makes one very important fundamental mistake. He confuses the mechanism of erosion, Water does not erode. Wind does not erode. It is the grit carried by water and wind that erodes and wears away a surface. To distinguish between the two mediums that carry the grit you have to examine the channelling and frankly, in the case of soft sandstone? The erosion channelling from windborne and waterborne grit is damned hard to tell apart.
