Origyptian Wrote:
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> Warwick Wrote:
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> > using simplified numbers .....
> >
> > 2,500,000 blocks
> >
> > divided by
> >
> > 7000 days
> >
> >
> > equals
> >
> > 357 a day
> >
> > Not getting into the fine calculations here but
> > needless to say. the numbers are nowhere near
> as
> > daunting as many think
> >
> >
> > Warwick
>
>
> So 357 multi ton blocks per day is "...nowhere
> near as daunting as many thing"? You think
> they were able to keep that up throughout the 200
> years it took them to build all those stone
> pyramids?
>
> How do you factor in the quarrying and shaping
> (tools?),transporting (vehicles?), manipulating,
> lifting and positioning (no pulleys?), not to
> mention the workforce logistics (including food,
> medical, spare parts, retooling, shifts, training,
> etc., into a project that's not daunting? What are
> you including in your calculation of 357 blocks
> per day that makes you think it's anything but
> totally inconceivable, unfathomable, and
> inexplicable?

Just 357 stones per day!!!

Imagine that! Just 357 unevidenced impossibilities every single day. ONLY 357 stones dragged a quarter mile up 120' in the air.

The Egyptians said they'd rather walk upside down than work at night.