What on Earth...

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I don't particularly trust the government either. But that doesn't mean they are the keeper of every silly secret someone thinks exists. It boils down to this. A smart person approaches a question by wondering what the answer could be. A dumb person immediately claims to know the answer.

I'm going to be pondering that for a while.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Let's keep the cultural references in the realm of (supposed ) science-fiction. Eh?

I was,

Cute.
Sortof. Like an oyster is cute.

More like a malevolent cephalopod of unknowable evil haunting your dreams from the Outside looking in over your shoulder just as you barely become aware that you and your prostate are not alone anymore....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

....or that.

[HONDO74]

So now we have moved away from Egyptians and iron knives to doctor who that gives prostrate exams.

Does he do it with that finger (looks kinda short) or with one of those tentacles from his face.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...now , that is a question from a creative American (!)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Does he do it with that finger (looks kinda short) or with one of those tentacles from his face.

Suggest you make an appointment, and find out, 1st hand,

[HONDO74]

Does he do it with that finger (looks kinda short) or with one of those tentacles from his face.

Suggest you make an appointment, and find out, 1st hand,

I would but only if you are recommending the good doctor from personal experience.....

[Roy]

Why does he remind me of Dr. Zoidberg?

[webenda]

There are some Egyptologists and archeologists that might still have another viewpoint, one that theorizes a direct interference/involvement by Extra-terrestrials.
More nitwits in the manner of NJPiney's nitwit.

However. Neeeeeexxxxt…..
How on Earth, then....
...would we explain the 70 TON red-granite boxes, and some of diorite, with their 30 TON lids found @ the Serapeum, Saqqara, Egypt, with their 2/10,000 of an inch laser-straight perfection of fitted surfaces and fit-together seams???Huh? Huh?
Here Christopher Dunn holds a flat up to the stone. A flat is not a measuring instrument. He is guessing the gaps are a few thousand of an inch. Looks like about 0.250 inch to me.


A few thousandths of an inch, well within the capabilities of the Pharaoh's stone masons.

Here Christopher Dunn holds a wood and steel carpenter's square up to the cover of a box. A square is not a measuring instrument. He is guessing the angle is 90ish degrees.




By simply believing some Bronze Age Egyptian workers just bronze-tool-pecked and chipped them into shape and existence and reality?
Well Murph, that is how the boxes got started. Is that hard for you to believe? Do you think the carved stones of the pyramids were delivered from outer space by flying saucers also?

...AND subsequently squeeeeeeeezzzed them into their tight little close-fitting (to say the least) niches? Huh? Huh?
Doesn't look like tight little close-fitting niches to me.


How did they get those boxes down the very narrow "hallways"?
Pulling and pushing Murph. The hallways were made just tall and wide enough for the purpose of moving the boxes (in unfinished from.)


They just moved them into their niches by a little wiggling and schlepping? How many men would that have taken.
It is written in the Torah, "The Children of Israel moved the boxes... 600,000 adult males on foot, besides the children." (Exodus 12:37)
So, it took 600,000 and each one had to move (a little math here: 70 ton / 600,000 = .233 lbs or 3.7 ounces) 3.7 ounces.

And they did it all with ropes?! Huh? Huh? AND 25 boxes, no less.
You said it.

C'mon. Some things are not explained-away by conjecture and religious philosophies, are they?
No, they are explained by going into the tunnels and seeing for yourself.

The Serapeum labyrinth, man, that's no bull.

What on Earth are they, and how did they come into being and get to where they are?
Already answered.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Excellent job, Wayne! I knew I could depend on you to reply with logic and more information. You have a way of giving a guy a good shake by the shoulders, saying, "Straighten-up and cut the crap."

P.S. I am not totally convinced, however, one way or the other.
Yet, what you have so kindly provided is profound in the intellectual maturity of its approach. Thank you.

[webenda]

P.S. I am not totally convinced, however, one way or the other.

No one can slave for two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick to the one and despise the other. You cannot believe the Truth and the Nitwits.

A principle borrowed from Matthew 6:24.

[Roy]

Too bad Christians burned down so many libraries. Who knows where man might be right now, if it weren't for them.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And then there was the Library of Alexandria. We will never know how much knowledge was lost in that conflagration.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

P.S. I am not totally convinced, however, one way or the other.

No one can slave for two masters; ...A principle borrowed from Matthew 6:24.

Yes we can. We do it all the time. Corporate bureaucracy (managers, dept. managers, etc.); school systems, with department heads and principals, and state supervision; legislative and executive branches of government; retail stores, with management and marketing concerns differing.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK. So strap this question on for a little bit:
What on Earth...

For no good reason, I have begun to wonder about the birds. Yes, the birds.
What happens to them - where do they go - during a storm, particularly when there is a heavy wind, with or without rain

Recently, we here in the Northeast have had 40mph and 60mph winds, sustained, even without rain. Now, I know the birds start their move into the trees when the sun begins to set, using their "songs" ; chirping to lay-claim to a particular branch or niche in a tree for shelter during the night. That much is obvious.

However, during high winds, what do the birds do with themselves? Can they really hold-on tightly enough on a tree branch/twig to weather (yes, the pun is intended) a high wind?

Part of my sincere motivation in asking is that after the wind is done, we don't see zillions of bird carcasses and injured bird bodies littering the ground, do we. In fact, I have never seen a single bird body, injured or dead, on the ground after a windy storm.

What happens to them? Are they really able to hold on that tightly and for, at times, prolonged periods of time?

And if the wind contains rain, heavy winds must make the rain drops feel like bullets to them - big bullets, no less. For example, I can recall getting caught in rainstorms while riding motorcycles, and even at low speeds, the raindrops felt like bee-bees, and hurt. And I'm way bigger than a bird.

So, What on Earth happens to birds during high winds, and why are there not numerous bird carcasses on the ground after a storm?