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Date Posted: 22:36:51 09/20/08 Sat
Author: Owen
Subject: Re: Another way of looking at it.
In reply to: Jay 's message, "Re: Another way of looking at it." on 21:37:02 09/20/08 Sat

I'm afraid your response makes no sense to me. Yes, its hypothetical (duh!) as I have never built a pyramid. And me erecting a tiny pyramid would prove (or disprove) what, exactly? How am I ignoring the amount of labor saved using petrochemicals? I didn't even realize that was a point of contention. As to underestimating the amount of labor needed to build Cheops, it was an engineering firm (Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall, working with some Egyptologists) that made the estimate I cited. They do jobs like renovating the Pentagon, building the Rand Corporation headquarters, stuff like that. Maybe you should let them know that their figures are off; I don't feel qualified to second guess them, myself.

www.dmjmhn.aecom.com

"...we have no damn idea how those were built..."

Well, unless aliens were involved they were built with human labor, regardless of how!

And your last comment is a metric of........how well the still is working? Because I'm stone cold sober (unfortunately) and it makes no sense to me.

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