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Originally posted by buddhasystem
Really. I've been there and saw these big piles of rocks.....
It's pretty interesting stuff, but I wouldn't call it an earth shattering experience.
Please don't. I'm not saying you will be dissapointed, but it's not really that big a deal.
Let me repeat, these are giant piles of rocks. Piles of rocks. Piles of rocks.
Originally posted by PhotonEffect
And how about the inside of the Great Pile of Rocks? Were you able to go in?
It's pretty interesting stuff, but I wouldn't call it an earth shattering experience.
I wouldn't either. I was thinking more awe-inpsiring.
This statement is funny to me. It sounds like you're begging me not to go.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Frankly, since we already are on this topic, large mountains like Denali and a few others are "more" awe-inspiring than the man-made pyramids.
But I suppose it's a matter of taste in the end
Oh no, by all means you should go -- it's just that you sounded so desperate to go I had to offer consolation.
When in Cairo, and decide to eat at a local eatery (I recommend the Old Market) you can re-use a few words you probably know already (chai, baba-ganouj, falafel) -- and you won't be hungry Good luck.
In all of the above steps, there must be:
Protection against criticalities.
Protection of the workers from expected radiation.
Protection against fires.
Good geometric separation of the various steps so that any one accident would endanger as few steps of the process as possible.
A means for workers to suit up before operations and a way to decontaminate after operations.
As I looked at the dome over the heads of the angels, I saw something that looked like a throne made of sapphire. 2 The LORD said to the person dressed in linen, "Go between the wheels under the angels, and fill your hands with burning coals. Then scatter them over the city." So he went between the wheels as I watched.
After the LORD had commanded the person dressed in linen to take burning coals from between the wheels beside the angels, the person went in and stood beside one of the wheels. 7 One of the angels reached into the fire that was between the angels and took out some coals. This angel put them in the hands of the person dressed in linen.
Then the man said to me, "The northern and southern side rooms that face the open area are holy rooms. These rooms are where the priests who come near the LORD eat the holiest offerings. Because these rooms are holy, the priests keep the holiest offerings there: the grain offerings, the offerings for sin, and the guilt offerings. 14 Once the priests enter the holy place, they must not go out of the holy place into the outer courtyard until they leave behind the clothes that they wore as they served. These clothes are holy. The priests must put on other clothes. Then they can go into the area that is for the people."
15 When the man had finished measuring the inner part of the temple area, he led me out through the east gate. Then he measured all the way around the outer area. 16 He measured the east side with a measuring stick. It was 875 feet long according to the measuring stick. 17 He measured the north side. It was 875 feet long according to the measuring stick. 18 He measured the south side. It was 875 feet long according to the measuring stick. 19 He came around to the west side and measured it. It was 875 feet long according to the measuring stick. 20 So he measured all four sides. There was a wall all around it. The wall was 875 feet long and 875 feet wide. It separated what was holy from what was unholy.
When they enter the gateways to the inner courtyard, they must wear linen clothes. They must have no wool on them while they serve in the gateways to the inner courtyard and in the temple. 18 They must wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments. They must not wear anything that makes them sweat. 19 When they go out among the people in the outer courtyard, they must take off the clothes that they wore as they served. They must leave their clothes in the side rooms of the holy place and put on other clothes so that they do not transfer the holiness from their clothes to the people.
The heart of the pyramid is the Kings Chamber and the heart of that is the sarcophagus. This was also the heart of the process. The uranium oxide would have been fitted into the sarcophagus. It may have been put in as bricks or pellets or even in granular form...... The granite must be able to withstand the high temperature and radiation emitted by the fissioning uranium oxide.
It must allow passage of most of the neutrons, which it does. Color photographs show that this granite sarcophagus has undergone radiation and heat damage in a very gradual manner over a very long time.
Its appearance is very reminiscent of metals and minerals, which experienced long term radiation in the canyons of the plutonium mills at Hanford.
The damage, or “wear”, indicates an operating time of many years.
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
Earth2,
We should send an Egyptian member of ATS to the pyramids if there are any,equipped with a Geiger counter-because if plutonium was enriched in there ,there should still be residual radiation i would think.
Remember that granite is slightly radioactive as well though,so they would have to take that into account.
If the internals of the Great Pyramid were a nuclear breeder system, then there was a sizable wash through of water, which went to the Bottom Chamber. From there the water would have descended to an underground sand layer. Assuming retention of the uranium and plutonium oxides, the major, soluble, radioactive isotopes are Cesium-137 and Strontium-90. Because they have half-lives of 30 years and 28 years, respectively, they would no longer be detectable.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
en.wikipedia.org...
A typical BWR is still pressurized to keep enough water in liquid form inside the reactor so there is enough neutron moderation. This is not optional -- w/o that extra pressure, water will be evaporating so quickly that the nuclear reaction would proceed at a very slow rate. The design in the OP link has atmospheric pressure and thus unfeasible. ...
Originally posted by gwhint
Whats your take on the rest of the 6 pyramids sitting along side of the great one.
Do you have any theories on these and dont forget the second biggest in the world is only yards away from the great one, were the rest possibly just storage facilities and I have to admit you have caught my eye with your theories, keep looking for the truth and you will find it, gwhint
When needed, a fresh nuclear module would be taken from a niche, loaded into a wagon in the small chamber adjacent to the Burial Chamber, brought up the first sloping passage, passed through the security portcullis, and on up and out the Descending Passage. A used module with spent fuel might have been brought to the Third Pyramid for reprocessing or it may have been abandoned. If such a module were brought to the pyramid, it might have been brought to the Antechamber and taken around the sloping passage where it could have had spent fuel removed in the small pit within that room. The emptied module may then have been taken down the sloping passage to the Burial Chamber for refitting with fresh fuel. The spent fuel could then have been taken to the Great Pyramid for processing. The spent fuel would have enough remaining plutonium (less than 30%) to boost the nuclear breeding in the Sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber. This recycling is only a possibility.
Originally posted by WuTang
What do you mean by second and third Pyramids?
Also, my textbooks say nothing of any "bottomless pit" below the subterrameam chamber. In fact they refer to it as an uncomplete chamber, the "abandoned throne room".
Another question; Why would they build the water inflow pipe at such a high point on the pyramid? It would be much more efficient to place it much further down, as it would require a lot of energy to pump the water that high up the wall.
Thinking even further on the water system, the amount of water the shafts could carry (20 cm by 20cm) would not be anywhere near enough to get a good flow through the chamber in which this nuclear material was supposedly being manufactured. .... A 20x20CM hole could not sustain the kind of flow that would be required for chambers that large.
Lets even say the aliens did had some way to blast that water with the pressure required for a solid flow. This presents another problem. The pyramid was granite blocks packed together with gypsum mortar. With that kind of insane pressure, the mortar would blast out from between the blocks, and I would even go so far as to postulate that it could even move some of the granite blocks.
Also, why would the air shafts from the queens chamber be plugged with successive limestone plugs?
Why would aliens bury boats around their nuclear processing plant?
How would the queens room be accessed if water was flowing throughout the structure?
Why would the aliens build temples around their nuclear processing plants?