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> Its funny how you pontificate like you were there
> or had any evidence of this...lol

Did it ever occur to you to read and try to understand?

> No it doesn't - why don't you link to what Petrie
> actually said? You refuse? Why is that?

Fifty times I've donme this and fifty times you snipped and ignored it. Obviously I'm not doing it for you.

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Hence it runs on, till, close to the edge of the basalt pavement, it branches in two, and narrows yet more; one line runs W., and another turning nearly due S., emerges on the pavement edge at 629.8 to 633.4 from the N.E. corner of the pavement, being there only 3.6 wide. From this remarkable forking, it [p. 50] is evident that the trench cannot have been made with any ideas of sighting along it, or of its marking out a direction or azimuth; and, starting as it does, from the basalt pavement (or from any building which stood there), and running with a steady fall to the nearest point of the cliff edge, it seems exactly as if intended for a drain; the more so as there is plainly a good deal of water-weanng at a point where it falls sharply, at its enlargement.

Snip away but make sure you don't read it first. If you accidentally read it then don't understand it.

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> > The counterweight ran
> > due north down the cliff face alone this
> > straight
> > run.

Yet in the very next post you suggest the stones flew down the cliff face.

You just want to confuse things.

> No the site YOU picked behind the Sphinx is a
> 100-125 meters from the quarry - you should
> actually look at the map Sam.

No. it is very near the edge of the quarry and a little downhill.

> Really so how big does a sail have to be to move -
> up a steep cliff face a 'boat' that weighs how
> much?

It's easy to compute.

It required only about 1000 lbs of force.

Of course it depends on wind speed so on days with light wind they used teams of men to reset them. They didn't work at all on calm days during temperature inversions.

> So it ran up hill huh? Did they have
> anti-gravity?

I know you can't look up the word "metaphysics" but maybe you can use a dictionary to look up "funicular".

> You think the AE were complete idiots - to put men
> into a funicular that - stops how? Have you
> thought of that? No of course not. The funicular
> drops, hits the ground and stops - what happens at
> the other end Sam?

The funicular "flew up and alit".

494a. bring this (boat) to N. Which boat shall I bring to thee, O N.?
494b. Bring to N. that which flies up and alights.

They didn't say the boat flies up and slams into the pyramid. It alights like a bird and they describe this a few times.

The bigger danger was falling out;

1533b. thou hast laid them in thine arms like herdsmen of thy calves.
1534a. Thou art as he who prevents them from slipping out from thine arms.

> You've given enough clues for only two
> funiculars:

I'm amazed you noticed. I actually thought you had no reading comprehension at all.