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  1. Re:Another Mystery by dublin · · Score: 1 · on Canadian Inventor: Pyramids Were Rocked Into Place

    West is all wet (sorry, couldn't resist), but there are other goofy if interesting and somewhat possible explanations for the pyramids, including that they were the giant water pumps that enabled Egypt to be the breadbasket of the ancient world, as we know to be historically true. As usual for wierdo sites, any good stuff here may be cheek-to-jowl with outright trash: http://www.thepump.org/

    It's an interesting and creative explanation, anyway, and explains better than anything else I've seen the more unusual design features of some pyramids...

  2. Re:The Great Pyramid as a water pump? by c.emmertfoster · · Score: 1 · on Pyramid Rover Finds A Third Closed Door

    Agreed, it is a fascinating theory, and seems as though it could be a plausable one, at least upon cursory inspection.

    Unfortunately, the article entitled "The Man Who Saw the Past," by the Founder of the organization makes the mistakes of Heresy Equals Correctness, and Bold Statements Make Claims True. He rather comes across as a crackpot, to the detriment of his foundation.

    Not to mention the fact that he mentions Nikola Tesla. Dead giveaway as a pseudoscientist :P

  3. The Great Pyramid as a water pump? by some+guy+I+know · · Score: 1 · on Pyramid Rover Finds A Third Closed Door

    I think that this is the link for which you are looking.

    (Note that I, personally, neither agree nor disagree with the theory presented therein, but I find the idea intriguing.)

  4. it's a water pump by g4dget · · Score: 2 · on Egyptian Pyramid Rover Finds... Another Door

    Come on, you know it's a steam powered pyramid water pump :-)

  5. It's part of the plumbing! by Ashurbanipal · · Score: 2 · on Robot To Explore Mysterious Pyramid Passage

    Everybody knows that the Great Pyramid was a water pump, right?

    Kunkel expounds his astonishing theories.

    Give this guy some money, please, so we can either be amazed or have a jolly good laugh at his expense.

  6. Giza as a large water pump? by Suidae · · Score: 2 · on Update on the Kite-Obelisk Project

    One group is suggesting that they used water power for some of this stuff: The Pharaoh's Pump

  7. Re:The point is not whether that's how they did it by sharkey · · Score: 2 · on Caltech Team Raises 6900-Pound Obelisk, By Kite

    Here is another arguement on another slightly "out there" way the pyramids could have been raised.

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  8. Re:Modern Kites by jackb_guppy · · Score: 1 · on Caltech Team Raises 6900-Pound Obelisk, By Kite

    check out Huge Kite Museum for sample of size that can be built from low tech material.

    also see Chronological Table of Kite History- time wise it works

    So all is possible...

    My person favorite: Pharaoh's Pump Foundation -- the pyramids are gaint water pumps!!