"Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@hotmail.com> wrote in
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In news:44d5fd77$0$12841$dbd41001@news.wanadoo.nl,
dre <v> typed:

and read this before you go berserk...



http://www.margaretmorrisbooks.com/giza_power_plant_meltdown.html

The main flaw that strikes me in that whole highly ambitious argument
is in order to make any form of concrete you need powdered rock. 
Admittedly rock can be powdered by crushing and grinding, so not
impossible with primitive means, just bang the rocks together. But
you'd need an awful lot of concrete to build the great pyramid.

The other aspect is where is the information that shows how this rock
was hardened and set. If the mixture didn't have the right properties
it would not harden properly. The other thing is the author talks
about Diorite pots, this substance is said to be as hard as quartz.
Obviously it would be very difficult to grind such a material into a
powder, and even if you could make a kind of diorite concrete. I
imagine one would need to fire the pots in a kiln so that the
particles could re-fuse together to the same hardness. But what about
granite? How does one make granite concrete? Processes that involve
firing usually require the inside of the object be hollowed out 
otherwise it will crack and fall apart, anyone who has ever done
ceramics knows this. The only other method that might work is some
form of internal heating process involving microwaves or ultrasound
carefully controlled using computers and technology very likely beyond
even what we have today and certainly not available to the Ancient
Egyptians. 

It's an interesting idea but apart from an attempt to debunk the idea
that the Egyptians had power tools the author provides no supporting
evidence to show geopolymerization actually works or is a viable
explanation. She merely uses long words with no evidence to support
her argument. 

In fact I'm pretty certain if one studied geopolymerization fully one
would discover the heat and pressure necessary to fuse some types of
rock together in that way would only be available to a highly
technologically advanced people. Actually similar theories have been
postulated about those Crystal skulls, but moulding and fusing quartz
in that way is AFAIK beyond current technology so if that is how it
was done, it would suggest they were made by a people with technology
far beyond our understanding. 

You need to be fully aware of what Christopher Dunn
presents for his case, as in his lecture/video
"The Giza Power Plant" 2004

and you should also take note of what Stephen Mehler
says in his lecture/video
"Ancient Khemit - Land of Osiris" 2004

These two complement each other very well, and one presents
more than what one alone does.
Ancient Khemit shows two cutting disks from the Cairo museum?
That may have been used to cut the granite with?

One has to be fully aware of the differences of workmanship in the
Giza Plateau area - that you have what is essentially a core
group of constructions, constructed by the Ancients, that may be
as old as 70,000 years ago? That was used for power generation
purposes? {with similiar great pyramids in South America and China}
These were abandoned after the great catacylsm - which buried the
other two - then you have the Egyptians who took over the site,
raised their own temples and what have you...
{Chris doesn't give a date of 70,000 years - and is probably
 looking at the dates 12,000 to 7,000 years ago?}

And so it is very likely that more than one technique was used,
and it is a matter of sorting out who did what with what?

Ultimately to prove what technique was actually used, there will
have to be a reconstruction of the technique, producing samples
of it, done today.
Hopefully someone will do just that? And in the process discover
or rediscover a better technique for use today...

Harvey