Egyptian Pyramid Rover Finds... Another Door

JoeRobe writes "In what appears to be more evidence that ancient Egyptian architects had a sense of humor, MSNBC is reporting that the pyramid rover has determined what was behind the door at the end of a mysterious shaft alluded to earlier - another door."

Comments

Are they sure they can get it out again?

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I the only one who fears that the door, currently very hard to get to because it is at the end of a long narrow passage, might soon be the door, extremely hard to get to because it is at the end of a long narrow passage with a broken robot jammed in it.

Short-term memory gone?

[sohp]

How is this different from a story posted two days ago?

Wait a second... live?

[matth]

How can it be live when the webpage says:

The National Geographic Channel special Pyramids Live: Secret Chambers Revealed airs in the United States on Fox Television on Monday, September 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

The only way I know to air a show at 8pm Eastern and Pacific is to have it recorded! So now, is it live? Or is it recorded?

this was tried

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:this was tried

[aussersterne]

The history of the pyramids is not very skechy, there is an entire library of literature about them going into great detail and there is much documentation that has been translated from ancient records as well; visit your local university library and try reading for a change instead of getting all of your data from TV aliens-are-everywhere specials.

The reason the Egyptian government is wary about letting any old Tom or Dick go digging about is because of the very long history of looting by nearly everyone who's come into contact with ancient treasures over the centuries -- the west being especially guilty of such things. There's also the worry that with today's travel/tourist mania, X-files pilgrims and crowds of pseudo-scientists, the ancient treasures could easily be ground into dust by foot traffic, or worse.

People with academic credentials and valid (i.e. not having to do with aliens, sorry) research interests can still get access when necessary.

Re:this was tried

[Zeinfeld]

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.

Take a look at the British Museum or Louvre sometime and you will see the reason why. Graverobbers took much of the best stuff in the 19th century and hauled it back home with them under the guise of 'archeology'.

If you go and tour the sites you will find walls covered with hieroglyphics with great big chunks missing where an 'archeologist' stole some particularly good looking piece.

The last thing anyone needs is a bunch of crystal waving new age hippies moving in to gather evidence to support their theory that the pyramids were marketing props for aliens selling a new type of chocky mint.

There are legit revisionist archeologists such as Romer who are challenging the chronology which everyone agrees is out of sync with the Greek and with the old testament.

Very tastefull

[t_allardyce]

You gotta love America, "Tonight we break in to ancient burial sites LIVE!" Will it have musical performances? What about cheesy hosts who do mummy jokes every 5 mins.?

Beware the Curse!

[Fear the Clam]

Pretty crafty letting a robot take the blame. I can hear the stories years from now...

"And the next morning, the robot failed to come out of its tent. When they went in to check, they found the robot frozen in horror, its monitor displaying The Blue Screen of Death!"

If someone's planning on making a DivX...

[wirefarm]

If someone's planning on making a DivX of this, I'd really love to see it.
(I'm in Japan and don't these channels.)
I feel a bit guilty for asking, so feel free to leave in the commercials - I'll watch them as my penance.

Cheers,
Jim

(jim at mmdc dot net)

Shaft exploring

[_ganja_]

I watch Shaft exploring programs almost every night, just need to get the right cable channels.

Best site for info on this...

[Anonymous Coward]

The BEST place to get info about the shafts and the history is:

http://www.cheops.org/

It is a site constructed by Rudolph Gattenbrink and contains all of his findings in a very public way... AutoCAD drawings of how each block was cut to form the shaft, etc...

Zahi Hawass (The director of the Giza site) loves to take credit for anything and everything.. I true ego-maniac... I would love to see Rudolph Gattenbrink get the credit he deserves...

There is a petition located at:

http://www.dailygrail.com/petition/

Re:If someone's planning on making a DivX... OT

[morgajel]

yes this is off topic, and yes I will get modded down as such.
man, if I had cable, I'd LOVE to give you a divx of it. hell, I'd even mail you a copy of the cd. Why?
Because it's frickin fair use!
If you can't watch a show, it is within your FAIR USE to have someone to record it at a later time.
My parents would always do that for me when I'd miss saturday moring cartoons to go to my sanchin ryu classes. that was fair use... that's the DEFINITION of fair use.
So why is this different? because it's Divx? because he asked on an open forum? if that's the case, would it be illegal to ask your bowling buddies if they could tape a show for you?

he said he'd be willing to watch the commercials, which he probably wouldn't anyways if he was watching it live(channel surf, bathroom, etc).

This is the kinda shit that makes me sick. that someone automatically thought it was in bad taste because he was excersizing his fair use rights.

To the parent poster, as I said, I don't have cable either. If someone does score you a divx of it, let me know.I doubt they'll ever release this bad boy to dvd.
as for the moderators who are gonna mod me as flamebait or a troll, blow me. I have promise you I have more karma than you have mod points(unless it's an ed.).

Isn't it obvious?

[UncleBiggims]

It seems obvious to me what this shaft is. It leads directly into the Queen's chamber so it must be a laundry shoot. Unfortunately, Khufu's dirty Sun God Underoo's must have been stolen 1000's of years ago.

Egyptian Engineers:

[Your_Mom]

Egyptian Engineer 1: "Hey Ahumhuphet!"
Egyptian Engineer 2: "Yo!"
Egyptian Engineer 1: "Check it out, I designed this really long, small passage that leads to a door, then it goes on, and leads to another door!"
Egyptian Engineer 2: "Why?"
Egyptian Engineer 1: "...dunno... thought it would be cool"
Egyptian Engineer 2: "Man, this is like your idea to draw aliens on hieroglyphs! Its not like anyone is ever going to /see/ these things!"

Re:Egyptian Engineers:

[Anonymous Coward]

Egyptian Engineer 2: "Why?"
Egyptian Engineer 1: "...dunno... thought it would be cool"


MY GOD! They've discovered the first case mod

Re:Enter from the outside...

[Psiren]

why don't they just carefully excavate into it from the outside, instead of going to all the touble of sending these robots in etc...

Let me get this straight. You want to explore one of the wonders of the world, by cutting fucking great holes in it?! Please tell me you're not a brain surgeon.

My favorite part . . .

[a_timid_mouse]

... and I only watched the last 5 minutes or so . . .

Robot proceeds forward through hole in door . . .

Excited Host Lady: Describe what's happening now for us!

Expert: The robot is proceeding forward through the hole in the door.

Excited Host Lady: Oooooo! Those look like hieroglyphics! Writing on the wall!

Expert: Cracks. Those are cracks.

Re:My favorite part . . .

[Scratch-O-Matic]

You missed an earlier part worth seeing, when the sarcophagus was opened to reveal a human skeleton:

Expert: I hope this will shut the mouths of all thoses idiots who say this place wasn't built by Egyptians.

Learning about ancient cultures

[Washizu]

They might find more information about the ancient race of skeleton people.

My special thoughts

[Jupiter9]

I can't believe I watched this. I knew it was going to be the worst 2hours of television I've ever seen, but still I was sucked in.

How come they didn't take the camera rover out and put the one with the drill in there to drill a hole through the new found door?

I thought they had xrayed the door already, did they know that the new door was there?

How many doors and how many specials will it take to reach the secret chamber?

Who was that British-accent babe commentator? Did any other guys here want to drive their rover up her secret chamber?

Somewhere...

[blixel]

It's another door.

Somewhere from the great beyond some dead Pharoh is laughing his ass off.

Bugs Bunny

[docbrown42]

After watching the show last night, why do I suddenly think of Yosimite Sam opening door after door, while Bugs nails up new doors on the other end?

-Ed

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Two running themes on the night...

[RebelTycoon]

Here are more beer pots... They must of contained beer...

And, look at the fingerprints... Surely Eygptians built this... My question is, wouldn't they have done their best to make sure flat surfaces were just that, flat, and free of fingerprints, because I would think fingerprints would make the thing look ugly.

Next point which really got to me was the fact that NO SLAVES were used and that it was a labor of love... That's such BULLSHIT. The evidence presented allows one to conclude several facts.

1) There was good food... Meats, fish, probably fruit. BUT was there enough for all? This I doubt. The better food was either a reward for the most productive teams OR for the skilled workers.

2) There were dorms... But only for about 2,000... This would mean an estimated 23,000 had to sleep elsewhere... Again leading to a conclusion of two or three possible workforces.

3) "Advanced" medical surgery was available... BUT for who? The skilled workers or the slave mules?

My conclusions...
1) There were slaves, used as mules to get the stones into near position.
2) Skilled workers positioned blocks accurately, these would receive the medical treatment and better accomodations.
3) Managers... All factories have them, why wouldn't the "advanced" Eygptians... Of course managers and overseers would be taken care of.

Better food was used for feeding the skilled and managers, and used as a reward for top performing slaves...

Re:Two running themes on the night...

[mikerich]

Without any access to the programme itself...

Here are more beer pots... They must of contained beer...

We know the Egyptians drank beer in preference to water as the fermentation process helped purify the water and reduced the risk of waterborne disease.

And, look at the fingerprints... Surely Eygptians built this... My question is, wouldn't they have done their best to make sure flat surfaces were just that, flat, and free of fingerprints, because I would think fingerprints would make the thing look ugly.

No, the interior of the Pyramid is really quite roughly hewn (albeit a lot better than most pyramids). Only the outer courses were finished to a fine standard after the blocks were lain in-situ. Constructing the big pyramids required blocks to be placed every minute or so, there was no time to do anything other than the roughest of shaping.

Next point which really got to me was the fact that NO SLAVES were used and that it was a labor of love... That's such BULLSHIT. The evidence presented allows one to conclude several facts.

Perhaps they didn't show all the evidence?

1) There was good food... Meats, fish, probably fruit. BUT was there enough for all? This I doubt. The better food was either a reward for the most productive teams OR for the skilled workers.

Sorry wrong. Not only was Egypt one of the traditional breadbaskets of the Near East (by Roman times it fed large parts of the Empire), but a good portion of the land was owned by Pharaoh (we have the estate records). This food was used to feed people on state projects.

Meat would have been rarer than in the modern diet, but there would have plenty of vegetarian foods, beer and bread to keep people going.

2) There were dorms... But only for about 2,000... This would mean an estimated 23,000 had to sleep elsewhere... Again leading to a conclusion of two or three possible workforces.

Sorry, wrong again. The Gizan necropolis has never been completely excavated. Large amounts of the site - including temples are now buried by modern developments, other parts of the site are buried under the waste from the quarrying in later times. There is plenty of room for more habitation. Your argument is like saying because we've only found a few houses in Yorks' Coppergate there can't have been a Viking city called Jorvik.

3) "Advanced" medical surgery was available... BUT for who? The skilled workers or the slave mules?

Egyptian medicine was the highest regarded in the Ancient World. Imhotep, architect of the first pyramid was also renowned for his medical learning and much later identified with Aescapulus by the Greeks.

This was a state organisation, the Pharaoh would have been interested in a healthy workforce. There is no reason to suspect that health care was anything other than good.

The Pyramids are social engineering on an epic scale. For one third of the year the Nile would have flooded all of the arable land in the country. 90% of the workforce would have been unemployed and restive - so they were put to work on the Pyramids. In exchange, they got food and the country remained stable.

Unfortunately, the structures also sucked wealth out of the economy and helped bring about the disintegration of the Old Kingdom.

One problem we have looking back at Egypt is that we try to put our own processes into the heads of people who thought and worked in a very different way. We know that the Romans and the Greeks used slaves to construct their vast projects; we've read the Bible and seen how Exodus talks about Israelite slaves in Egypt and we colour our image with those thoughts.

The Egyptians did keep slaves, they weren't squeamish about the fact and their temples and tombs are decorated with images of slaves.

During the Old Kingdom Egypt was a very isolated country and did not have ready access to foreign populations for slaves. Slavery becomes much more common (although never as common as in Greece and Rome) in the Middle and New Kingdoms as Egypt broke out of its isolation and began to invade Nubia (to the South), Libya (to the West) and the modern Near East.

But we don't find any signs of slavery on the pyramid sites. We do find household junk, dockets, mentions of the origins of the workforce and so on. We know they were Egyptian workers.

My conclusions... 1) There were slaves, used as mules to get the stones into near position.

Unskilled labourers certainly with skilled team masters, but not slaves.

2) Skilled workers positioned blocks accurately, these would receive the medical treatment and better accomodations.

Modern reconstructions show that unskilled labourers working under supervision of skilled workers can perform the task to the required precision.

3) Managers... All factories have them, why wouldn't the "advanced" Eygptians... Of course managers and overseers would be taken care of. Better food was used for feeding the skilled and managers, and used as a reward for top performing slaves...

There were managers, we have their tombs. Of course they had better food (more meat, wine that sort of thing), but that doesn't mean the people working for them were slaves any more than the fact that the head of a company earns more than his staff, enjoys fine Bordeaux and has a house in the Hamptons.

Best wishes,
Mike.

Re:Two running themes on the night...

[Reziac]

Thanks for posting this, it saved me the trouble :)

What people also forget is that "slaves" in the ancient world were not the yoked, whipped, starved, and generally mistreated image that modern folk have got from movies. It was more like an indentured job where you could count on food, clothing, shelter, and sometimes a small wage, oft as not with a target date when the slave had the option of buying himself free (most didn't -- where would they go that paid as well?) In those days, the average freeman was doing well to have work that paid in sufficient food and housing, never mind money; about all he had over the average slave was social status, and sometimes not even that.

And there wasn't a big police force available to catch runaways -- so if you mistreated your slaves, they were liable to just up and leave and there was nothing the owner could do to stop them. I recall reading of an incident where some Roman landowner did so (mistreating slaves was a serious criminal offense under Roman law), and the entire slave workforce simply picked up their tools and left.

In a talk back in 1983, C.J. Cherryh (who used to be a history teacher) pointed out that furthermore, slave labour (what moderns think of as slaves, that is) is inefficient for big projects like the pyramids, where you need a stable workforce who have some clue what they're doing. OTOH, for several months of the year (during the entire flood season), the Pharoah had a few million idle farmworkers with nothing better to do than drink beer and cause trouble -- the sensible thing to do was put them to work on big public projects where they got paid and stayed out of trouble. The bigger the project, the more idle farmers were kept busy, and the fewer social problems as a result. Pharoah wasn't stupid. :)

C.J. also spoke of HOW the big stone blocks were moved. Nile River clay is so slick that when it's wet, you almost can't stand up on it. C.J. decided to try a little experiment with her 8th grade class. She didn't have stone blocks and Nile clay available, but did have wet grass and a two-ton metal construction weight. She harnessed her 8th graders to this two-ton block and -- well, the moment they got it moving, it damnear ran them over, it was that easy to move on mere wet grass. So the boys decided to ride on the block while 8 girls pulled. It still all but ran away with them, and in their haste to avoid being squished, they managed to drop it into a ditch. They'll never get it out of there, right?? Ha! The kids heaved on the ropes and it came flying up out of the ditch, over their heads and landed somewhere beyond 'em. Eeep!!

C.J. concluded that with Nile clay to provide slipperyness, the major problem was not getting the massive stone blocks moving, nor hauling them up the ramps, but rather keeping them from running away under their own power!!

Re:ok

[Anonymous Coward]

Because they now need to explore the opposite shaft (which has never been fully explored) to get the red key and then return to the orginal shaft and open the second door.

And behind the second door

[goldcd]

they find a priceless gold sarcophagus of unimaginable scientific value - how the f*ck do they intend to get it out?

VERY MISLEADING

[Anonymous Coward]

>A bit of history here...Rudolph Gantenbrink
>and his team discovered the door some years
>ago. Zahi responded by rushing them out of
>the country and making sure that they
>wouldn't be able to come back.

This is actually a VERY misleading statement. Gantenbrink, by way of Robert Bauval, let the word out on the findings of the 'door', whereas it is standard procedure for *everyone* who is doing research there to go thru the Council of Antiquities FIRST.

That Bauval was associated somehow with it is probably what tipped the balance (for fairness, you can read Bauval's account of the events in Secret Chamber by RB, chapter 9 I believe). The combination of having an "alternative" historian (that means one who cherry picks his 'evidences') together with the the breaking of the rules relating to announcement of discoveries is a big no no for egyptology, simply because these things get out of control, in terms of wild and completely unfounded speculation, REALLY quickly.

Many might not realize this, but there is a huge *industry* revolving around the "mysteries" of ancient egypt, where authors who know very little of (or chose to ignore) the HUGE coherent picture that egyptology is, ignoring montains of evidence supporting it and countless others that go against their own "brilliant" speculation, end up transforming a culture into a "legacy", heavily hinting at mythical places such as Atlantis (a spurious story already of which ONLY plato talks about, and in terms heavily metaphorical), and often sliping into concepts like "noble or higher race" and the like.

The world of "alternative egyptology" is fascinating at first glance, but is roten from the inside, trust me on this.

Another point is that the "door" hardly is a door, as it is located in a shaft that is 8x8 inches, unless someone has a book to write about little beings using this shaft as a corridor for their daily affairs (I suspect this would easily be linked to our alledged martian legacy in a sleight of hand). The two "handles" could be many things, but even if they are handle, that doesn't make the thing a door, it just makes it a plug, with handles.

The third thing i'd like to mention is the latent hatred of that "alternative research" community toward people like Zahi Hawass, who has, despite these people crave to dig everywhere, been dedicated to protecting and researching the Giza site for many decades. Granted Zahi has a big mouth, granted he doesn't know how to talk to journalists, but his dedication and honnesty are obvious to anybody who looks into the field (and no, reading Graham Hancock's 'work' does not qualify). Mark Lehner is in a somewhat similar yet different position, since as an ex-Cayce believer, he began his career with the goal of finding things like the "Hall of Records" (his academic training was financed by ARE, the Cayce fundation). Having learned a lot since his debuts, and having grown up, he is now bashed by his old buddies for being honnest. (don't you find it strange for instance that RB's "orion correlation theory" used to 'lock' giza to 10500BC, just as Cayce 'predicted' ? Thorough examination shows there is no such lock to such an epoch to be found, and the OCT has now been reduced to a "astetically pleasing representation" that lacks any form of precision, and hence any predictive power, rendering 10.5kBC completely and utterly arbitrary)

The way I see it, "alternadoxy" is jumping to the gun on this, let's just wait and see what they find, if they indeed find anything, because whatever is or isn't there, it'll be one hell of a special.

The alledged hijacking of Rudolf Gantenbrink's work is a straw man, Gantenbrink is refered to in all the papers you will find in academia relating to the exploration of the shafts. The nature of research dictates that one researcher follows another on a site, research is not for personal glory, it's about uncovering the truth. That Gantenbrink isn't always mentioned in the press is not the big deal that "alternadoxy" makes of it, after all, Dyxon isn't either and probed the shafts many decades before Gantenbrink (in his probings, he did find that the southern queen's chamber shaft seemed to be blocked at the height we know of today as the location of the plug). Also Gantenbrink has been associated with this special, if only in providing his experience to the i-robot team.

As for "why so long?", well the pyramids aren't going anywhere, these things always take time, specifically because we do NOT want to rush in. I think the REAL question to ask is :

Why NOW ?

Well, think about it, it'll probably boost egyptian tourism by solving a mini-mystery. That tourism took a big blow after 9/11.

Now THAT qualifies as very good reason to be doing this now rather than later.

Re:VERY MISLEADING

[lemox]

Is this some kind of archeology FUD-bot?

Both this comment and its parent appear in the previous story ("Egyptian Pyramid Mysteries to be Explored Live") just take a look at the title of each page.

The writing on the wall...

[Kredal]

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, and all blocked by really heavy stone doors.

Re:ok

[gosand]

So can someone explain to me why they didn't open the door? I mean seriously.

Short answer - RTFA!

Did you even see the show? The "door" is in an 8"x8" square shaft that entends up at about a 45 degree angle. I think the shaft was 200 ft long.

Over months, they built a special robot that chould get to the door, and it tried to move it. They used some kind of sonar to determine that the door was only 3" thick, so they tested out a device to drill a 3" hole in it, so they could insert a small camera and light.

So instead of thinking that you are so clever, maybe you should have watched the show, or at least read the article before going off on some pseudo tirade.

What's behind the door that Ito-san is next to?

[gsfprez]

(in all caps, stupid /. filter)
Kuni : Naaaaatthing! Absolutely naaaaaaathing! stoooooooopad !!!! You're so stoooooopad!!!!!
(/Weird Al UHF reference)

A Pathetic Excuse for Science

[Anonymous Coward]

This entire thing was an exercise in what I would hesitate even to dignify as psuedo science. Egyptology is not science in the first place; not any more than astrology is. But this was even shy of real egyptology.

The entire show consisted of outright lies and wild speculation presented as fact. For example, the statement that 'the people who lived here could not have been slaves because they were 50% male rather than a majority.' Huh? How does that make the slightest bit of sense? The Egyptians took slaves of any gender. I do not happen to think that most of the pyramid labor was slave, but that was hardly a supporting arguement.

The director of anitquities made quite a show of concern for good science and taking proper care of the sites explored. But in the end, he essentially attacked that tomb with a chisel and a crowbar for no apparant reason. All he had to do was place a hydraulic jack under each corner and lift. But he damaged the sarcophagus to look like Indiana Jones and was shocked to find... a skeleton! Inside a grave- imagine! He pretended to read a 'curse' on the side of a tomb, despite the fact that he was tracing the characters in the wrong direction (across 2 seperate lines) and the fact that no inscription resembling a curse has ever been found on an Egyptian tomb. Ever. It was a myth invented before the Rosetta stone was found.

It would have been nice if they had mentioned the fact that not a single set of human remains has ever been found in an Egyptian pyramid. The theory that these were built as literal tombs is yet unproven.

Perhaps they might have incorporated the opinions of geologists, climatologists and other actual scientists in the course of this 'documentary.' But that surely would have ruffled the feathers of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, which apparantly exists for the purpose of justifying conclusions that were reached 100 years ago by untrained, British treasure seekers.

I also took issue with the computerized recreations of the building of the pyramids. National Geographic completely ignored the fact that 4,000 years ago that area was a very temperate climate. No desert, no sand. A lush, green paradise that looked nothing like it does today. This fact was completely ignored throughout all the reenactments- even those that were clearly staged in the US with caucasian actors. Why go to all that trouble of staging a desert unless you really just don't know a damn thing about ancient Egypt?

The truely embarrasing element of all this is that National Geographic was responsible. I expect better from them. This wasn't even pop science- just a big, fake exercise in tomb raiding and lies for the entertainment value. Cancel my membership, please.

Re:A Pathetic Excuse for Science

[Krieger]

The program really was a travesty. It seemed entirely like a vehicle for Hawass to try and discredit the "Pyramidiots".

As much as some of the pyramidiots are way out there. Many of them seem to raise some very legitimate and troubling questions about Egyptology. They in fact made me just interested enough to start reading academic texts about Egyptology and it does appear that some of the so called discoveries that have been found throughout the exploration of the pyramids have been fake. The "gang" graffiti of heiroglyphics that Hawass showed is in fact the only writing found in the pyramids. And it is possible that it was done by Egyptologist that got to that level to justify the expense of his expedition.

I still find many of the current arguments about the construction of the pyramids to be unconvincing. At a minimum the timing still seems wrong. The other pyramids in the country seem to be proof. They have the step pyramids and then they have the pyramids at Dashour. The strange upsurge of amazingly well architected and built pyramids in the middle of a dynasty only to relapse into horrible pyramid building less then a few centuries later. And most of all without any evidence of civil unrest, war, or other catastrophe to explain the sudden loss of technology.

So as much as the Pyramidiots are out there it would be interesting to see the Egyptologists take them seriously just long enough to convinvingly refute (or attempt to) their claims. It would certainly go a long way to discredit them. Because it seems that the Pyramidiots have managed to make some decent discoveries themselves, or at least ask questions that caused the exploration of the new ideas.

Link For FOX's 18-35 Male Demographic

[LittleGuy]

She's BBC News Commentator Laura Greene.

Re:Yeah, but...

[British]

They should just give up and leave the robot inside there.

Then, hundreds of years from now, explorers will find it, and think ancient Egyptians had robot technology, completely skewing world history up.

Pyramid Undergoes Colonoscopy - on Live TV

[tenzig_112]

Here are some notes from Giza's recent colonoscopy

Physicians were shocked to discover that, due to its advanced age and weight, the monument belongs to the highest risk categories for a number of diseases.

Through an interpreter, Giza told reporters that he decided to go ahead with the procedure in order to set an example for others. Wonders of the World, it seems, are notorious for taking terrible care ofthemselves. They never bathe, take no exercise, and avoid medical care at all costs. Stonehenge, for example, hasn't seen a Chiropractor in half a millennia.

Originally bound for PBS or The Learning Channel, the project eventually landed on the network best known for routinely airing rectal contents: Fox Television.

Re:ok

[MoneyT]

Because the hyroglyphs on the second door said:

"By breaking this seal you agree to the terms of the license contained herein.

I learned 5 new things last night...

[elbowdonkey]

First of all, having Tivo last night was like a fluffy dream come true. As the distance between "real" content decreased with each commercial break, I became more and more thankful for the commercial skipping features. All told, my viewing of the real content probably only trailed live users by a handful of minutes.

According to Zahi, I learned a few new things:

1. Not a single slave helped build the pyramids.

2. Using a crowbar to chip into a 4000 year old sarcophogas is just fine, rather than using more delicate means (did you see the huge chunk of the lid flake off as he got a little too excited?).

3. Zahi thinks the rest of the world with theories opposed to his "kind and loving egyptians built the pyramids" are idiots because of a thumbprint on the sarcophogas lid. (!?)

4. Zahi's bone specialist confirms: no slaves here, we have 50% men and 50% women in our findings (as if slavery was something only men had to endure).

5. Robots aren't as snazzy as portrayed in the movies. Most movie robots would have been at least able to MacGuyver their way through the second door.

proof of time travel

[shren]

Somebody has been using the speed of light distorting effects of pairs of copper wire to travel back in time and set up a room in a pyramid so they can make a very long series of TV documentaries.

Hey. I'll give you a big pile of gold if you'll make a room that's impossible to get into in this pyramid. Say, up a narrow shaft, behind a couple doors. And throw in a trap that will crush a small robot.

Robot?

It's like a cat, but not holy.

Oh. Ok. Sure. Why not?

Due to lack of funding..

[MongooseCN]

Due to lack of funding, and the need to get through the second door, the next robot is going to be a LEGO cart with TNT strapped to it.

There is a door to the east

[Sonicboom]

> East

You open this door, and there is a long passageway to another door. A NASTY DWARF THROWS AN AXE AT YOU!

> OPEN DOOR

You open the door, and there is a black sceptre and a bird cage on the floor. "XYZZY" is written on the door.

> XYZZY

You are in a well house.....