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Pyramid Rover Finds A Third Closed Door
eyefish writes "Well, following on this story and then on this one, we now get to this third story in the series: 'a camera thrust through the south shaft's door last week revealed what appeared to be another door on the other side of a 9-inch-square chamber, for a total of three so far in the pyramid.' This is getting more exciting all the time. I only hope we get to see what's behind the last door before my lifetime..."
If they decide to open Door Number 3 and nothing's there, do they have to forfeit all of their winnings?
"Moderate drinking can help prevent amputated limbs" -- Abigail Zuger, NYTimes, 12/31/02
in the final room a mural on the wall with the Egyptian equivalent of a smiley face sticking its tongue out.
I like playing practical jokes that sit dormant for months, imagine playing one that sits dormant for millenia!
Brian
And ten years later we find out that the hallway is circular, leading through an infinite series of doors...the robot ends up staring at their own asses from behind.
This must get them a lot of PR and funding. I mean, how often can you make an archaelogical announcement that hits the big news sites that says "We found another door!" Normally, you have to find an unlooted pharoh's tomb or Viking traces in Florida or something.
May we never see th
This reminds me of those old adventure games where they made the game world seem bigger by putting you into a loop, so you could keep going in the same direction, and just go round the same locations over and over again...
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
Now, lets see what's behind the door!
NOTHING! Absolutely NOTHING! STUPID!
Objects in the blog are closer then they ap
Considering why the pyramids were built, shouldn't that be an afterlife-time warranty?
And when they open the next doors they will find a large space extending beyond the outer walls of the pyramid! It contains the answer to life, the universe and everything, written in hyroglyphics all over it's walls...
-- Cheers!
Okay, I've been trying to figure out how they managed to get past the second door. They didn't. The article blurb implies that the third door was behind the second, but it's in a different shaft.
Briefly: There are two shafts. The southern shaft is very straight and has a door blocking it, discovered in 1993. They inserted a fiber-optic camera through a hole in the door and found another door behind it. The northern shaft has twists and turns, and they just now were finally able to get to the end of that with the new robot. That shaft, too, is blocked by a door.
National Geographic explains it a little better...
*rim shot*
Remember in Jurassic Park 3? The scientist guy fired some sort of blasting cap into the ground, and then used the resulting seismic waves to "see" the raptor skeleton below the ground. Now why on Earth (or in Egypt...) can't they use some similar seismic/sonar device to solve the innnevitably horrible punch line to this pyramid "door" joke? It seems like this wouldn't hurt anything, although maybe my grasp on reality might be a few fingers short, and that tech from the movie never really existed outside of the celluloid the picture was shown on...
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<I> Am I just jaded or is a 9-inch-square chamber not much of a big deal to find on a 8-inch square shaft?</i>
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... is a fourth, and a fifth, and a sixth, and more, and the last one's wired to some ACME-brand TNT. I wonder if they're stubborn enough to open all those doors?...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.