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News Briefs 28-09-2015

By Gregon

Super-blood-moon! First it steals your mind, and then it steals your…soul! (Sung to the tune of Soundgarden’s Superunkown)…

Thanks @anomalistnews.

Quote of the Day:

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown

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4 Comments

  1. news
    Animals: No self respecting farmer, rancher or shepherd treats their animals to the extreme this article has in mind because it doesn’t make sense. A farmer can’t afford to loose a head that could costs him thousands of dollars, that’s why we have large animal vets. Sure there is abuse, but those farms that abuse are sadistic bastards too stupid to see it hurting their bottom line. There was a story that came out recently about a chicken farm were the chickens were running around and stepping on each other and dying from the stress. A responsible farmer would not want that amount of loss (sometimes a few chickens a day) because it would cost him too much. I have been lucky enough to meet many a responsible farmer. You don’t give a cow a name if you don’t care about it. For a farmer, it would cost too much for them to keep a cow that can’t produce milk of offspring, so it’s sold to slaughter. Female calves are kept with the heard, male calves can be sold off, sometimes not to slaughter but other farmers to breed their cows. Studding a bull can get lots of money over the years in some cases. Anyway, I wish these kinds of articles would look at the farmers who do right by their animals as much as the bad stuff. You’d be surprised.

    Moon: Most of those myths could qualify as myths about the moon in general.

    Blimp: It looks like it has a hernia
    http://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/15214/pic_0013_260.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y

    Alien typeface: We graphic designers come in peace…to steal your sheep *evil glare* (to all none graphic designers, sheep means typeface)

  2. Cuckoo Khufu Theory
    Picking up a load of limestone at Tura doesn’t prove that Khufu built the Great Pyramid. Simply repairing the Great Pyramid (not to mention the rest of the Giza Plateau and other pyramid fields) was an enormous effort. Copper was probably sufficient to cut limestone, but again, this doesn’t prove it was used to in the original construction of the Great Pyramid. If anything, the papyri prove that the 4th Dynasty work was not an “Industrial Scale” operation, but one in which an official is casually or sporadically stopping by Tura for a limited amount of materials.

    This is a good example of Hawass and other archaeologists “seeing what they want to see.”

    Evidently, Hawass still hasn’t heard about Göbekli Tepe!

    1. Indeed
      “The scale and ambition and sophistication of it—the size of these galleries cut out of rock like the Amtrak train garages, these huge hammers made out of hard black diorite they found, the scale of the harbor, the clear and orderly writing of the hieroglyphs of the papyri, which are like Excel spreadsheets of the ancient world—all of it has the clarity, power and sophistication of the pyramids, all the characteristics of Khufu and the early fourth dynasty.” -Mark Lehner

      The aforementioned speaks of an industrial scale and sophisticated operation. I think the papyri only proves even more that Khufu indeed commissioned the said pyramids. One has to remember that Tura was the primary, if not the only, source of all high-end limestone in the Old Kingdom.

      But then again, “we see what we want to see”, eh?

      1. A Slow Lehner
        Have you seen pictures of the tunnels/caverns? They aren’t impressive at all (in comparison to the Great Pyramid), and there is no way of dating their original construction either. The Old Kingdom pharaohs were primarily restoring structures that existed far before their own time. They were recovering from one of a series of catastrophes that essentially forced civilization to reboot each time. I think we will find that Khufu’s work was only the last in a series of restoration attempts.

        First of all, Khufu did not live circa 2,500 BC. An honest chronology would make him much, much more recent. Secondly, a construction date of 2,500 BC for the Great Pyramid isn’t secure either. This may only be the date of one of the major reconstructions. So, I’m sorry but Egyptologists are only trying to bolster their ridiculous ideas and they cannot be trusted!

        The caverns/tunnels are about 3 yards by 3 yards in size and about 30 yards deep, and were dug out of limestone. Not really a huge accomplishment (or comparable to an “Amtrak tunnel” (lol). This is perhaps less than the size of an average tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

        They found a total of 25 stone anchors in the harbor and 99 spare anchors in the storage areas. We don’t know how often an anchor would break off and need to be replaced (or how long the port was used), but this again doesn’t necessarily suggest a massive shipping operation (specifically in support of building the Great Pyramid, haha!). Could much of the shipping involve other locations that just the Sinai? Certainly by the start of the Middle Kingdom ships were going around Arabia to Mesopotamia. Could that not have also been occurring in the Old Kingdom?

        I think this discovery (which also isn’t particularly new) is being highly exaggerated and tells us absolutely nothing about the Great Pyramid!

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