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Robot To Explore Mysterious Pyramid Passage
a_timid_mouse writes "The National Geographic Society, using the same kind of robot used to search for survivors in the ruins of the World Trade Center, is trying to solve a mystery that lies deep in the bowels of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza. Up a tiny square tunnel is a stone hatch with copper handles that was discovered in 1872. No one knows the purpose of the shaft, and no one knows what lies behind the hatch. Enter the Pyramid Rover."
Let's just hope that Geraldo Rivera doesn't decide to cover it live, which will guarantee that nothing interesting is down there.
So the robot wakes the mummy, gets cursed, and comes out of the pyramid with XP embedded in it's firmware...
The robot will find the first occurance of the smiley face, if only to show up the smuggness of the person who retreived the vax backups.
-Adam
They're returning in 2038 to enslave us.
Good, then we won't have to worry about all the UNIX systems that will run out of space for the date, right?
This was tried several years ago. The robot they used did not have a fiber optic camera, and was unable to see past the door, however, it did have a laser on it, and they shined the laser through the cracks in the sides of the door and were unable to see the dot, so there is some evidence that there is a large room behind the door.
The new robot has a fiber optic camera, and some kind of device which will allow it to see through up to 3 feet of rock.
One thing that kind of pisses me off about the whole egyptology thing, is that the egyptian government is pretty strict on who they let come and do work like this over there. If they don't agree with some of your views on the history of the pyramids, good luck getting a permit to do anything there. The history of the pyramids is very sketchy, and how the traditional egyptologists think their theories are 100% correct is very arrogant.
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Thankfully it's a National Geographic production. If it was a Fox thing, it would have been called: "Temptation Door: Sex Secrets of the Mummies" or something stupid like that.
ImhotepBot crushes the puny Pyramid Rover.
In the Star Trek evil Mirror Universe, virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma is gangsta hiphop star DJ Yo Ma-Ma.
A previous attempt to penetrate the mysterious
shaft ended in disappointment when it was discover
that Lara Croft's cross-section was too large to
permit her entry into the shaft.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.