7 New Wonders of the World Named

[NovaStar]

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I thought this recent theory presented by a Frenchman was proved to have been a very likely possibility.

http://www.3ds.com/introduction/revealed/

I can't get the link to work. What is his position?

[SportsTop]

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I can't get the link to work. What is his position?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6514155.stm

[DrJones]

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I'm not that impressed with the Brazilian statue, especially ahead of the Pyramids.

The Great Pyramid (being the only one of the original 7 Wonders still in existence) got an automatic 8th spot months ago, so it was never in danger of being bumped off the list.

I voted for the following:

- Colosseum
- Great Wall of China
- Petra
- Machu Picchu
- Great Pyramid of Giza (I voted before it was removed from the list)
- Acropolis
- Stonehenge

If I had to choose an 8th, it'd be either Hagia Sophia, the Taj Mahal, or the Easter Island statues.

[mjb2124]

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The only one I've seen in person is Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid. Very impressive...

[Cebby]

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You have a lot to learn about the pyramids. Still to this day, no one (rocket scientists included) cannot make the pyramids (great one) that are in Egypt. There is more to the pyramids than the fact that they are structures. It is the mysteries of science and hidden knowledge that went into making them that is astounding.

http://www.infinitetechnologies.co.z...atpyramid.html

Your article's most recent source was 1994, with a few from the 1800s. Just a wee bit outdated.

Yes, it was probably the most advanced structure ever when considering the time of construction, but you seriously think nobody could make a pyramid?

We've put a man on our moon, we build skyscrapers with ease, we can instantly communicate with someone on the exact other side of the planet, we can clone human beings, genetically engineer anything, yet, we can't stack bricks?

[Laettner32]

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there is more to the pyramids than brick stacking. i watched a documentary where there is a small line about the size of a folded newspaper that goes from the main chamber inside the pyramid, to the exterior to allow the spirit to leave. for whatever reason, its not a straight line, but it zig zags throughout the structure and each block was precisely in a certain spot...it is mindblowing.

im not "foil hat wearing, x file watching" dude, but maybe the egyptians had a little "help"..

[CoRruPt-]

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Yeah, but given the lack of technology they had back then in Egypt and were still able to exactly point to certain constellations and such makes it impressive. And other precisions in its engineering when all they had were hand made tools.

I highly doubt we can replicate their pyramid building method without the use of modern technology. Those 'bricks' are ten plus tons.

[SPTO]

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Call me crazy but I'm one of the people that believe the Pyramids were done with the help of an otherworldly entity. The technology argument is a strong one but also look at the fact that there's pyramids of varying designs all over the world. You can't honestly believe that other civilizations came up with the idea independently.

I've also read and heard that the erosion on the Great Pyramid indicates that it's been around far longer then the accepted date given by mainstream sources. The weathering on the pyramids indicate that there was once lots of water around it which wasn't the case even back to the accepted timeline that it was built.

[SportsTop]

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Call me crazy but I'm one of the people that believe the Pyramids were done with the help of an otherworldly entity. The technology argument is a strong one but also look at the fact that there's pyramids of varying designs all over the world. You can't honestly believe that other civilizations came up with the idea independently.

You're crazy.

And sure you can believe that other civilizations came up with the idea independently. A pyramid has the best foundation of all the geometric shapes given the materials they had to use back then. It isn't rocket science.

[RockinDaMike]

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The pyramids point true north more than any building today. How did they do that when the compus was not invented thousands of years later? Or that the pyramids align to the Stars of Orian's belt perfectly.

How do you explain that the Pyramids are in the middle of all land masses put together or the average height of land above sea level for the earth is 5449 inches. This is also the height of the pyramid.

There are so many part of the pyramid that deal with seasons, math, astrology, distance to the moon and sun, i just don't think the Egyptians were that smart to calculate everything so perfect.

[SPTO]

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You're crazy.

And sure you can believe that other civilizations came up with the idea independently. A pyramid has the best foundation of all the geometric shapes given the materials they had to use back then. It isn't rocket science.

At least you didn't bash me as a crazy conspiracy minded person

RockinDaMike makes points that I should've made. There's so much mathematical aspects to the pyramids that just seem to be out of the grasp of the people back then. How the heck could they know all this stuff when building the pyramids?

[SportsTop]

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At least you didn't bash me as a crazy conspiracy minded person

RockinDaMike makes points that I should've made. There's so much mathematical aspects to the pyramids that just seem to be out of the grasp of the people back then. How the heck could they know all this stuff when building the pyramids?

I'm not a mathematical genius, but just because they didn't have a compass doesn't mean they couldn't figure out north using the position of the sun and the north star. Again, that isn't rocket science.

Someone would have to find concrete evidence proving it was impossible to build the pyramids during that time for me to believe they had "otherworldly" help......like a spaceship buried underneath one of them.

[RockinDaMike]

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I'm not a mathematical genius, but just because they didn't have a compass doesn't mean they couldn't figure out north using the position of the sun and the north star. Again, that isn't rocket science.

Someone would have to find concrete evidence proving it was impossible to build the pyramids during that time for me to believe they had "otherworldly" help......like a spaceship buried underneath one of them.

We aren't talking about just pointing north. We are talking about that the pyrmaid point TRUE north.

The Great Pyramid is the most accurately aligned structure in existence and faces true north with only 3/60th of a degree of error. The position of the North Pole moves over time and the pyramid was exactly aligned at one time.

[SportsTop]

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We aren't talking about just pointing north. We are talking about that the pyrmaid point TRUE north.

The Great Pyramid is the most accurately aligned structure in existence and faces true north with only 3/60th of a degree of error. The position of the North Pole moves over time and the pyramid was exactly aligned at one time.

I'm not trying to be callous, but so what?

Geometry hasn't changed. A line is a line, a ray is a ray, and an angle is an angle.

We've become more and more jaded to some of the more simple things in life as technology has evolved.

[RockinDaMike]

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Its cool if you don't want to look into it, but the The Great Pyramid is not just simple geometry and math. It's very complexed. To the way it was positoned, built and its orgins has been a big mystery longer than people have been keeping time.

No one has been able to to fully explain the orgin or its mathmatcis, so thats why its still a big deal.

Its not just angels and rays, its one of the most facinating objects the world has ever seen and its still standing today after thousdands of years.