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Robot To Explore Mysterious Pyramid Passage

Posted by timothy on from the beware-the-mummy's-curse dept.

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."

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  1. If they were in US by ACNeal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If they were in the US, we would be the assholes, and would be insulted, and chastised until we let anyone in. If we didn't, we would be called ignorant, arrogant, classless, knuckle scraping rubes that don't deserve to breathe, and how dare we try to foist our control on world history. Somehow this would also make us imperialistic, I am sure.

    But since it isn't in the US, I guess the Egyptian government is well within their rights to control something that was built before the current incarnation of Egypt was even thought of.

    You see, if you aren't American, you can't make a mistake. I just realized this, and boy do I feel bad about being American.

    I am sorry that everyone speaks English.

    I am sorry that France and other countries have to make laws to keep their language alive. This is obviously as a result of some covert American plot to pollute the world with our language. The French saw fit to give over control of everything to the Germans upon the asking, but somehow we have sullied their language, how dare we.

    I am sorry that we came over to Europe in the early 20th century, and again in the 40's. I know we should have just left Stalin kill another 20 million Christians, and Hitler kill another 6 million Jews. We were insensitive, and imperialistic.

    I am sorry that we tried to force capitalism on the North Koreans in order to protect our oil interests. Same with all the Vietnamese. These people wanted, and have thrived under the communism they recieved. We were rude, brutish, and totally out of line in both of these actions.

    I am sorry that we stopped a thug and a thief from stealing millions of dollars worth of property, and a chance to control a significant portion of the worlds oil supply. This was selfish, and imperialistic. I am sorry that we allowed our women service people to remain uncovered, offending all the right thinking people we just saved, because our women have the same rights as the men.

    I am sorry that we stopped a racist, religious zealot from trying to cleanse his country of other races. They clearly didn't belong there, since an arbitrary border said they didn't belong in the same place they had for severl centuries. I am sorry that we stopped his troops from systematically raping all the females of these other races as their troops moved from town to town. Clearly these people deserved to be raped and killed and we were insensitive and arrogant to impose our ideas on that eastern european community.

    And most recently I am sorry that we feel the need to try to dictate how another country can defend its borders. We have no reason to believe a man that has already gased citizens of his own country to test chemical weapons would release a weapon of mass destruction on the world. How dare we get that attitude.

    Yeah, we are just a bunch of arrogant, classless hillbillies over here that don't have the common sense to commit suicide because we are so beneath the rest of the world.

    I am sorry that the rest of the world has to deal with us Americans. If only we had never been organized as a country.