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originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
So you are using 'copper made tools and arrowheads' as possible proof of an advanced civilisation using technology like a magical transportation device despite there being absolutely no evidence whatsoever of the latter?
I understand you want this to be Atlantis and you've certainly put a lot of time and effort into this.
There may even be some interesting finds waiting to be discovered at this site - and many other sites around the world, I have no doubt there are massive gaps in our knowledge and understanding of human history and development - but I respectfully suggest you're barking up the wrong tree here.
So you are using 'copper made tools and arrowheads' as possible proof of an advanced civilisation using technology like a magical transportation device despite there being absolutely no evidence whatsoever of the latter?
I understand you want this to be Atlantis and you've certainly put a lot of time and effort into this.
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: Byrd
It was shown as a example of the "Hidden" technology. Your suggesting the Egyptians did not mummify their elite dead, and it was natural?
You've lost me here. Mummification is something that occurs naturally, like the mummies in Peru (which are fairly recent) And how did we get from discussing objects along a road to mummies? Let's go back to the road, please.
One issue at a time.
Ill get to the rest in time.
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: Byrd
It was shown as a example of the "Hidden" technology. Your suggesting the Egyptians did not mummify their elite dead, and it was natural?
You've lost me here. Mummification is something that occurs naturally, like the mummies in Peru (which are fairly recent) And how did we get from discussing objects along a road to mummies? Let's go back to the road, please.
One issue at a time.
Ill get to the rest in time.
Certainly there were. The Gebelein predynastic mummies are the most famous (and contemporary, by the way, with the glacier Otzi mummy) In addition,they would have seen naturally mummified animals...they're not that uncommon in arid areas. We've seen lots of mummified (naturally) animals here in Texas.
By the way, the mummification technology evolved over time. The early dynastic ones and Old Kingdom ones aren't well done. The process changes and evolves over time, becoming pretty decent in the New Kingdom era (over 2,000 years later)
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
I think you are missing the point I made. The most ancient records indicate there was a life extension technology that was in use, and used for the "gods". If a uneducated commoner saw this he would have no concept of it, other than seeing what it could do. Hence the Cargo cult mentality. It also may be true that the Biblical Patriarchs had access to this technology, but that all ended with the "Flood".
originally posted by: Byrd
The timeline of Very Old Ancestors is the same with the Babylonians; no mention of it until about 1500 BC, when there's sort of an "arms race" of "my lineage is older and more holy than yours" where everyone decides they're descended from gods and long-lived heroes. Even the very old Epic of Gilgamesh doesn't get into the hunt for immortality until 1700 BC or thereabouts.
originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
I looked further into the Berber connection.
The city where Solon is said to have heard the story of Atlantis had, at that time, been ruled off and on by Berber princes for about 200 years or so. During his lifetime it was held by native Egyptians, though. (And also it was the capital of Egypt.)
www.britannica.com...
en.wikipedia.org...
Since Berber occupation of the Maghreb region has been established as going all the way back to 10,000 BC, they most certainly have a long enough continuous history to reach the time of the story. If anyone kept records, oral or otherwise.
You get that even from just reading Timeaus. He explains that the first ancestors were the gods, who had children who had children.... etc.... with shorter and shorter lives until you reach the present.
He seems to believe that everything gets more corrupt as the generations progress. The aristocracy was assumed to be fewer generations removed from the gods, and the peasantry to be more generations removed.
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
I looked further into the Berber connection.
The city where Solon is said to have heard the story of Atlantis had, at that time, been ruled off and on by Berber princes for about 200 years or so. During his lifetime it was held by native Egyptians, though. (And also it was the capital of Egypt.)
www.britannica.com...
en.wikipedia.org...
(confused look)
The 26th dynasty is pure Egyptian. And the Berbers never ruled Egypt. Libyans did, but not Berbers.
They're different.
originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
This may not come to anything, but something interesting I came across.
en.wikipedia.org...
This mountain is about 200 kilometer North West of the Richat structure. Close, but really not very close.
Still, it is basically made of magnetite.
It has a blue color, which would probably make it stand out enough to attract visitors. When they arrived, they would find that the rocks are magnetically attracted to each other. (I'm thinking that would probably pique their interest.)
Just imagine if some culture that far back had somehow gained early access to the iron age? Just by pure luck of having a large source of magnetite nearby to mess around with. That would make them very powerful. Nigh unstoppable in their time!
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
This may not come to anything, but something interesting I came across.
en.wikipedia.org...
This mountain is about 200 kilometer North West of the Richat structure. Close, but really not very close.
Still, it is basically made of magnetite.
It has a blue color, which would probably make it stand out enough to attract visitors. When they arrived, they would find that the rocks are magnetically attracted to each other. (I'm thinking that would probably pique their interest.)
I believe you're confusing magnetite with lodestones. While lodestones are naturally occurring magnetite, not all magnetite is magnetic. en.wikipedia.org...
Just imagine if some culture that far back had somehow gained early access to the iron age? Just by pure luck of having a large source of magnetite nearby to mess around with. That would make them very powerful. Nigh unstoppable in their time!
Did you look up the dates for the Iron Age? It varies according to region, and in some places it begins around 3000 BC. However, it did not begin that early in Africa.
If a theory takes you down too many rabbit holes, then you're probably better off simply staying above ground.
originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
This may not come to anything, but something interesting I came across.
en.wikipedia.org...
This mountain is about 200 kilometer North West of the Richat structure. Close, but really not very close.
Still, it is basically made of magnetite.
It has a blue color, which would probably make it stand out enough to attract visitors. When they arrived, they would find that the rocks are magnetically attracted to each other. (I'm thinking that would probably pique their interest.)
I believe you're confusing magnetite with lodestones. While lodestones are naturally occurring magnetite, not all magnetite is magnetic. en.wikipedia.org...
Ok. That makes more sense. It did seem odd for natural magnets to be so common.
So magnetite to an ancient person would basically just be another kind of rock.
If Atlantis had depended on a specific mountain for all its iron, being unaware of any other means, then it could start an iron age, but then see that age come to an end when the city collapses.
Fun for fiction, I guess. But it doesn't seem likely at this point, if Kediet_ej_Jill is made of a substance an ancient would view as merely black colored rocks.
If a theory takes you down too many rabbit holes, then you're probably better off simply staying above ground.
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: Byrd
As far as the "Water Line" I'm at 99% its a water line. Now in saying that some loose ends popped up when I was ready to concede. Besides I really do want to put this to bed so I can move on to some other discoveries. But one of those nagging Colombo moments came along grrr and I cant get it to resolve. grrrr.
LOL When I saw this I knew I had to share lol lol
TextSun kinks are sections of rail road track that leave their containment because of expansion. Everyone can see that when it happens, usually in very hot locations. Its expected and planned for. The rail is one rail running for hundreds of miles, to repair you cut a section of rail out, pull it together, and slag weld it. Water lines have "U" shaped sections built into them to allow for expansion, contraction. This is why many water lines are above ground to allow for expansion, and easy repair.
originally posted by: Mike27
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
TextSun kinks are sections of rail road track that leave their containment because of expansion. Everyone can see that when it happens, usually in very hot locations. Its expected and planned for. The rail is one rail running for hundreds of miles, to repair you cut a section of rail out, pull it together, and slag weld it. Water lines have "U" shaped sections built into them to allow for expansion, contraction. This is why many water lines are above ground to allow for expansion, and easy repair.
Believe it or not, the ground temperatures are pretty stable after a depth of about 8 feet.
Then you have the cooling effect of the pipe's contents.
A underground leak usually is unseen above ground, because gravity ...
I'd like to see real world examples of the underground u shaped expansion joints.
Underground does not use U joints, but rather accordion sections. Show me this pipe is 8 ft deep. If you study the 62 miles you find the vast majority of these leaks to surface on the road next to the line of stones. Leaks will follow the path of least resistance while under pressure, this pipeline is under pressure, correct? Ask anyone who has a main break what happens.
originally posted by: Mike27
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
TextSun kinks are sections of rail road track that leave their containment because of expansion. Everyone can see that when it happens, usually in very hot locations. Its expected and planned for. The rail is one rail running for hundreds of miles, to repair you cut a section of rail out, pull it together, and slag weld it. Water lines have "U" shaped sections built into them to allow for expansion, contraction. This is why many water lines are above ground to allow for expansion, and easy repair.
Believe it or not, the ground temperatures are pretty stable after a depth of about 8 feet.
Then you have the cooling effect of the pipe's contents.
A underground leak usually is unseen above ground, because gravity ...
I'd like to see real world examples of the underground u shaped expansion joints.
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: Byrd
Yes look for other info. But I like to look at something by myself, first. Work through the logic independently, uniquely first, so I'm not just a sheep following the heard, sort of thinking. Then form my own conclusions. Then bump it against what everyone else has concluded. Not, first. This way my thinking is not being controlled by any other agenda, overt, or covert.
I looked around for other pipe lines in Africa that use the same ideology of marking the location of buried pipe lines using large concrete, or stones of the same size or similar size that use two rows of offset spacing. Well, I just couldn't find any. All of the others are above ground on pedestals. Others are buried but only use sign posts every so many feet showing where the pipe is buried. If you ask me, the expense of marking a pipeline in the observed manner, is absolutely, insane. No wonder the original company went broke.
Your going to get LEAKS. Now, does your great mind see the columbo moment??
From this point there are possibilities but when you run them out, they end up illogical.