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Felix wrote:I can see any of a number of military people he worked around when he was younger saying "you're a lock for West Point"....no, that's not a scholarship offer, but in a young mans mind, being told he was a lock for a miltary academy by someone of power could have been misinterpreted by Carson....he was an 18 year old kid at the time......

smackaholic wrote:When is it OK to start mocking them?

BSmack wrote:
What I don't get is how a legitimately smart person can buy into a church (7th Day Adventist) that was founded on the ashes of the failed prophecy of William Miller that the world was going to end on October 22nd, 1844.

Thermal scan of Great Pyramid reveals mysterious anomaly

A unique heat signature on the eastern wall of the Great Pyramid of Giza could hold secrets to the ancient edifice.
By Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Staff writer NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Thermal scans of the Great Pyramid of Giza show a 6-degree variation in one segment of the 4,500 year old wall. (HIP INSTITUTE/PHILIPPE BOURSEILLER)

Researchers have found something hidden in the Great Pyramid of Giza, but they're not sure what it is yet.

Thermal scans revealed an anomaly in the ancient walls of the pyramid. While much of the wall uniformly heats up and cools down each day, a spot on the eastern side of the structure behaves differently. There was a six degree Celsius (11 F.) difference in temperature compared with surrounding stones.

That distinct heat signature could mean some passage, room or other insight is hidden in or behind that wall.

"This anomaly is really quite impressive and it’s just in front of us, at the ground level," Mehdi Tayoubi, founder of the organization that is conducting the pyramid thermal scanning experiments, told the Huffington Post. But he is hesitant to share potential explanations.

"We have several hypothesis but no conclusion for the moment," he said.

There may be a chamber or passage revealed behind the wall, but any explanation could reveal a lot about the ancient Egyptians that built the pyramid.

"At the very least, this anomaly will shed additional light on the construction techniques of the 4th dynasty Egyptians," egyptologist Beth Ann Judas told the Huffington Post. "It's rather exciting actually. Over the past few years, archaeologists have been learning more about the workmen and officials who are connected to the pyramids, and this gives us more information about their work."

Already, it’s not surprising that the thermal anomaly was found on the eastern side of the Great Pyramid, says Dr. Judas. The east side would have been the front of the pyramid, as almost everyone coming to the structure would have approached from the Nile, to the east. Furthermore, the sun rises in the east and ancient Egyptian religion revered the sun god Ra.

This thermal anomaly was discovered as part of the Scan Pyramids project, organized by the Paris-based Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute. The researchers conducted thermal scans of the pyramid at various intervals, particularly focusing on the mornings and evenings.

As the stones heat up in the morning, and cool down in the late afternoons, they should do so uniformly if they are made of the same material. But if there are different materials – or cavities in the structure – some parts of the pyramid will heat up or cool down faster than others.

When the Scan the Pyramids project is over, the researchers will have scanned the Great Pyramid, also known as Khufu or Cheops, Khafre or Chephren also at Giza, the Bent pyramid and the Red pyramid at Dahshur. The scientists are also employing techniques such as muon radiography imaging, 3D scans, and topographical scans via drones.

Already the project has tackled some exciting questions. Archeologists discovered an anomaly in the northern wall of King Tut’s tomb thought to be another chamber. If that’s the case, the sarcophagus of an ancient queen might be buried there.

But the Scan the Pyramids project scientists are simply looking for anomalies that might suggest something to the archeologists. They hope their scans will produce concrete results that the egyptologists can investigate.

As the project's website begins the about page, "Just because a mystery is 4500 years old doesn’t mean it can’t be solved…"

BSmack wrote:

smackaholic wrote:He's in the church because he was born into it, as is the case with most members of superstitious clubs. I personally think that calling any one denomination any crazier than the next is kind of silly. The only religious group that I find myself distrusting more than others are the muzzies. They have demonstrated that they aren't capable of just coexisting with others.

There are certain cults that bear greater scrutiny because their history is recent enough that the fraudulent nature of their founding is a matter of public record. For example, just about every whackjob cult founded during the 1840s in Western NY. The Mormons, Shakers, Millerites and the Spiritualists were all demonstrable frauds. For example, William Miller said that the world was going to end on October 22nd, 1844. Obviously that did not happen. But that didn't stop his followers from recalculating like a spastic end times GPS.

smackaholic wrote:I assume you were an Obama voter?

What do you think about a guy who sat in the pews listening to Rev g0d damn America?

BSmack wrote:

smackaholic wrote:I assume you were an Obama voter?

What do you think about a guy who sat in the pews listening to Rev g0d damn America?

I think all organized religion is silly. I also think the overreaction to Rev Wright was slathered in hypocrisy. When Obama starts claiming bullshit like the Pyramids were silos, then we can compare.

BSmack wrote:

smackaholic wrote:I assume you were an Obama voter?

What do you think about a guy who sat in the pews listening to Rev g0d damn America?

I think all organized religion is silly. I also think the overreaction to Rev Wright was slathered in hypocrisy. When Obama starts claiming bullshit like the Pyramids were silos, then we can compare.

smackaholic wrote:The issue is not that a "second person said stupid shit", the issue is that he continued to attend services in the church of that racist POS.

BSmack wrote:...the candidate professing to believe things that are demonstrably false.

BSmack wrote:..mad foreign policy cred

BSmack wrote:he probably isn't appointing her Secretary of State and giving her mad foreign policy cred she can use against any of her potential GOP opponents.

BSmack wrote:She was Secretary of State????

Dinsdale wrote: Sorry, Bri -- that's poptart-level trolling. Just stop.

BSmack wrote:



And Wolfie be like "why you comin' up short on my dead presidents, yo?"

R-Jack wrote:

BSmack wrote:



And Wolfie be like "why you comin' up short on my dead presidents, yo?"

How shall I afford a high class ho?

How will I hit dat nasty box?

Will it smell like rotting lox?

Da'bitch he never sent my tix

Shit straight cuts into my bicthass WICs

mvscal wrote:

BSmack wrote:She was Secretary of State????

She was a categorical fuck up as Secretary of State. Just ask Chris Stevens....oh, wait.

mvscal wrote:

BSmack wrote:She was Secretary of State????

She was a categorical fuck up as Secretary of State. Just ask Chris Stevens....oh, wait.

Moving Sale wrote:

mvscal wrote:

BSmack wrote:She was Secretary of State????

She was a categorical fuck up as Secretary of State. Just ask Chris Stevens....oh, wait.

Yea she really shouldnt have shot him... Oh wait.