On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:36:39 -0400, Thor Kuntelin wrote:

On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 19:30:00 +0100, Keith Willshaw wrote:

Maybe they did. It wasn't a bunch of Chinese, Aztecs, Egyptians or,
for that matter, anyone today that could build, much less build in the
constraints of time that occurred, the pyramids of subject.

Except for the minor problem that we know that the blocks
of stone used to build the pyramids were worked with
stone and copper tools.

In fact attempts have been made to prove that the pyramid could be
constructed using the known ancient Egyptian tools and methods.
Egyptologist Mark Lehner has made an attempt with a large group of
people but failed to even create a 6 m scale model of the pyramid.

A Japanese team funded by Nissan made another attempt to create an 18 m
high scale model using the same primitive ancient Egyptian tools such
as chisels and hammers. The once so proud Japanese team returned home
disillusioned and embarrassed, since they had to use jackhammers to cut
the hard stone, only small blocks were carved from the quarry.

It's so highly implausible to not be discussible.

We call people who are stuck in the Age Of Pyramid Stupidity
"pyramidiots". If the (pyramid) point fits, wear it.

rofl

Pyramidiots fail to see that these "primitive" stone and chisel users
were somehow master mathematicians with highly advanced geometrical
capabilities. To wit:

The mathematic value of Pi defines the ratio of the circumference to the
diameter of a circle found in the pyramid math.

pi can be found taking twice the base length of the pyramid divided by
its height:

pi = 2 * 440/280 = 880/280 = 22/7 approximating
pi = 3.14159.

Perhaps pi was never specifically calculated, but its value became
incorporated to a very high degree of accuracy for and by future
generations to discover.

Of course, after "chiseling" to perfection the blocks of granite (nary a
human hair can fit in a joint), they would wipe of their sweat, take a
dip in the Nile and resume mathematical excellence.

Of course.