Origyptian Wrote:
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> Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> > Hi Steve.
> >
> > Hope you don't mind if I chime in.
> > I think Ori's points about river levels and the
> > surrounding cemeteries are valid.
> > The ground layout of the cemeteries has zilch
> in
> > common with the ground layout of the P'mids.
> > As they say in cockney rhyming slang, "As
> pi**ed
> > as a handcart" (I'll let you figure out what
> > handcart rhymes with) lol
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that water had a lot to do with
> > the construction, but keep in mind that the
> > builders were master surveyors as evidenced by
> the
> > position of the P'mid relative to the geo pole.
> If
> > they could get that bang on they'd have had
> little
> > difficulty in achieving a level over a large
> area.
> > I would have thought that they'd use a similar
> > method of surveying to achieve a level,
> > Can you use water to achieve a compass bearing
> > alignment?
>
> If you float a magnetized ferrous needle, e.g., on
> a delicate leaf (ever see Hunger Games?), it will
> rotate to point to magnetic north if it's in a
> still enough pool of water. Of course, you'd still
> need a square and straight line tools to proceed
> with measurement, planning, and construction.

That's the problem.
Once you've established magnetic north or geo north by celestial observation, bisecting rising and setting. How do you then project that datum point to the ground plan? In other words accurate surveying. Clearly the pyramid builders were capable of this to within an extraordinary degree of accuracy, the cemetery builders not.
Working from magnetic north is problematic even with deviation charts because owing to magnetic deviation the thing doesn't remain constant and certainly not over thousands of years, east least, west best and all.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 14-Jan-17 03:10 by Jon Ellison.