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Thread #27769   Message #342249
Posted By: Grab
17-Nov-00 - 07:22 AM
Thread Name: underneath the Sphinx
Subject: RE: underneath the Sphinx
I don't know how true this is. Certainly they did scan Egypt with ground-penetrating radar; many atlases have pictures of the result, showing a relief map of the Nile tributaries and delta, which looks rather impressive. The reason for doing it though was as a demonstration to the Russians that they could detect underground nuclear silos.

I'd be interested to see what he uses for proof for this. Most of us are (rightly) sceptical of such claims. Where are the records of this archaeological expedition? Who's doing it? If it's been so successful, why hasn't it made the papers (or is this a - yawn - top-level conspiracy)?

I have to say, I find this whole site more funny (and slightly sad) than I do factual. Check out the rest of the site for some seriously far-out theories - not least of which is his suggestion that the Earth is actually hollow and contains a central sun at its core. Nice idea - but (a) you'd never get a sun that small due to the mass required for spontaneous nuclear fusion; (b) even if you did, it would be sigificantly denser than the surrounding hollow sphere so the centre of gravity would be at the centre of the sun; (c) if the central sun is now the centre of gravity of the planet, water will still flood into through the "Arctic Hole"; and finally (d) if the Earth moved even very slightly from true around this central sun (eg. the momentum from someone jumping up and down), gravity would continue to drag the hollow sphere towards the sun (or vice versa if you take his assumption that the internal sun is much lighter than the Earth), and the two would impact - this is called a "high point balance" situation, similar to trying to balance a chair on its 2 back legs. Sorry, but no.

I'm not going to go as far as saying he's an outright whacko - maybe there are some facts in there worth considering - but we're in serious suspension-of-disbelief-and-laws-of-physics territory here.

Grab.