| How to build a Pyramid.
For ten years part of my job was moving safes. At times with only rollers, levers, blocks of wood, and shims, I and my coworker would move up to 6 ton safes around, up and down stairs, ramps, over curbs and such. The Egyptians who built the Pyramid had the exact same tools available to them. When it dawns on you the simplicity of my theory, which I call twide, (the way I would do it), you will ask how I was the first to think of such an obvious method. I use this analogy. You know how Lincoln Logs are notched at the ends so the middles are close fitting? Who do you think was the first to come up with that? A leather elbow patched tweed jacket wearing tenured Oxford professor or a guy in the woods with an axe? Egyptologists and archaeologists largely were the only ones to really ponder this. Not a safe mover with a massive brain. The details are in the basement. Following is the bare bones.
The great Pyramid of Giza stands 481' tall. The sides are 756' long. The slope is a tad under 52 degrees. It's made up of over 2.3 million blocks averaging 2.5' high and 3' x 4' wide and deep. The average weight is 5000 lbs. 203 levels make up the pyramid. The problem is getting a 2.5 ton block up 2.5' at a time with out a forklift. Do that once and then do it 202 times for the highest block. Here is the best way put forth in over 200o years. Set up 5 steps. The first is 6" high. Then 1', 1.5', 2', the top of the fifth step is even with the top of the level the block will sit upon.
The fine art below shows how to go up one step. Feel free to question, mock and ridicule this. If you don't understand something ask. The biggest thing I'm looking for is flaws in this process. The process is finished in the next post. Print them out and tape them to your fridge. Show them to your teachers and drinking buddies. E-mail to tenured professors and ask how a blue collar guy came up with this and they couldn't. Annoy as many people as possible. Try to claim as your own and I'll sue you. I could publish this or write a book on this and get rich. But then you know me. I just want to prove my brain is larger than Billo's. |