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Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Friday, May 3, 2002, 16:29
Roger Mills wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote: >(I wrote:) > >>No! It's true! Just last night the Discovery Channel revealed that not >only > >>the pyramids, but also Teotihuacan and Angkor are the result of alien > >>technology/astronomical knowledge. My goodness, they hung around for a > >>very > >>long time, didn't they!? Perhaps they're still here........... > > > >Angkor 'd be a new one. I thought it only was Africans and Americans who > >were to dumb to hew big rocks without the help of aliens. > > >The main point of the program seemed to be that (1) the pyramids and the >Sphinx were aligned in accord with compass points, and Orion's Belt, and >something else; >now how did those silly Egyptians manage that? (2) Teotihuacan is a model >of the world, based on a module of 1.06 meters-- so close to the actual >meter that, obviously, the Aztecs must have accurately known the >circumference of the earth. (Ummm, a 6% error does mount up) (3) Angkor is >also a model of the world and aligned thus-and-so (I missed much of this >segment), which actually is true IIRC, the central tallest temple >represents >Mt. Meru in Hindu cosmology.
I'm fully aware that it's these alignments and other advanced features that are supposed to be due to aliens - I do find this particular brand of pseudoscience quite amusing. The "too dumb to hew big rocks" was intended as a rhetorical exageration, serving to portrait those who people in these theories as even more stupid/racist than they actually are. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com