In news:1154491452.283401.181480@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com,
riplin@Azonic.co.nz <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> typed:

Amanda Angelika wrote:

Why would they be recognisable as such? The Victorian Archeologists
who dug most of the mummies up wouldn't have recognised a battery

Every time that you post you show that you know less, no wonder you
are impressed by the priests of UFOlogy.  Batteries were well known in
Victorian times having been invented in the 18th century by Volta and
applied to make electroplated goods such as EPNS silverware and
jewlery before Victoria came to the throne.

Well actually I did spend some time dealing in antique silver, this is a
misconception, what is termed English Silver plate is different to EPNS.
English Silver plate was made by sandwiching metals whereas EPNS (using an
electrolysis process) came later. Which is one reason apart from age why
early English silver plate is more valuable then more modern EPNS, the
process quality and silver content is entirely different.

you use google to see the perfect alignment?
hahaha...that's like using a car to paint a picture.

What makes you think Google Maps are that inaccurate?

It isn't the maps that are inaccurate, it is attempting to see an
alignment to the side of your monitor, or some other 'north', when the
mouse can rotate the image and you may have barrel distorsion in your
monitor.

Google maps don't Rotate, and I have a very high quality 19" Dell CRT
monitor with a resolution set to 1024 x 1280, I don't get barrel distortion
Dell make some of the flattest distortion free monitors available and being
an artist and graphic designer by trade I recognise the importance of a
decent monitor :)

I would think they
would have to be extremly accurate since they are used with Global
positioning systems.

GPS by itself is accurate to about 100 metres.  So if you were to take
a GPS reading at two corners of the pyramid and draw a line on a map
between the points given this may be in almost any direction.

The Magnetic Poles are not static in any case,

If you think that the alignment is to 'magnetic north' or was done
using any form of compass then you are even less informed than I
thought.  I posted a method of doing it using just a stick and a
string.

Well if they were able to make batteries, you'd think they might have
noticed loadstone always points north. In fact so do many natural rock
formations containing Iron ore and can be used by geologists to asscertain
polar shifts. Even on Mars :)

if they are accurate to 1
degree that's accurate enough.

And that is certainly achievable using a stick and a string, no ET
required, no compass, just a bit of common sense and a couple of
clues.

Finding North isn't a big problem I never said it was, finding the centre of
the landmass is however a different matter.

forget google!
it isn't a science tool!
only pretty pictures...

There's no reason to suspect it's inaccurate.

It is only as 'accurate' as your mouse and your monitor.  The width of
a pixel will put it 'out' a degree or two.

Nope there are only 360 degrees in a circle there are 1.3 million pixels on
my monitor.

Why? I'm not trying to educate anyone, convert people or prove
anything. I don't care what people believe. All I am saying is the
pyramids do seem to be very accurately aligned and people can check
it out for themselves.

They are reasonably accurate, as accurate as can be done with a stick
and some string.

LOL

You sould also note that the sides are not all exactly the same
length, they are out by a few inches, the sort of accuracy that would
be expected for the measuring being done with bits of string or a
wheel (cf how they used to measure roads until recently).

Bearing in mind what one sees today are ruins, that have for the most part
lost their outer casing and been erroded by thousands of years of wind blown
sand one would not expect then to be as accurate as they were when first
constructed.
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Amanda