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Date Posted: 21:24:20 09/20/08 Sat
Author: Owen
Subject: Re: Another way of looking at it.
In reply to: Mark D 's message, "Re: Another way of looking at it." on 14:58:18 09/20/08 Sat

"I have no problem standing by the original statement " You could not produce enough rock via human energy (even with an army of slaves) to do even the most minimal maintenance on OUR ROADS." Either you have no idea of the magnitude of human effort involved in building the pyramids or the Roman roads, or you have no clue as to how vast our system of roads is...."

Our population is almost 200 times that of the Nile valley at that time. The pyramids are not just piles of broken rubble, they are 100% cut stone blocks. Cut without iron tools. Moved into place without wheels. The exterior blocks are so carefully shaped and fitted that a credit card cannot be slipped between them. (I tried.) Some of the blocks were transported over a thousand miles to the site. This was done with an average workforce of only about 15,000 people (Great Pyramid). The base (over 13 acres) is out of level only a fraction of an inch. The whole exterior surface was originally highly polished white limestone. It is hard to understand how large the thing is without actually standing at the base of it; photographs do not do the trick. The amount of labor involved is absolutely mind boggling. But you feel human labor could not provide the volume of gravel sufficient for simply filling potholes. (And we're not talking about actually filling any holes, simply generating enough gravel.) Negatory? No can do? Are you joking? Are you drinking? I think you underestimate the amount that can be accomplished when no labor unions are involved.

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