Scientists don't require time machines to study craters.

[sjastro]

Yes.

On behalf of scientists, who don't know the Truth.

As I said in Post 20:

I have a feeling that, if one was built, scientists would line up around the bend to verify this, that, and several other things.

Why would scientists want to verify a tacky Australian newspaper of the past which kept its readers abreast of the times on page 3.

 

[AV1611VET]

Why would scientists want to verify a tacky Australian newspaper of the past which kept its readers abreast of the times on page 3.

If you could go back in time for 24 hours, where would you go?

 

[sjastro]

If you could go back in time for 24 hours, where would you go?

I would go back to Egypt circa 2500 BC to find out how the engineers completely messed up building what should have been a true pyramid.

 

[Estrid]

Ha.

Id go back and buy a lot of walmart,
Apple, bitcoin, berkshire hathaway...

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Some things are cute when you're a kid, but when you're an adult they're just tragic. Like believing in Santa Claus or the Easter bunny, at this point in your life they're not so funny anymore.

Hey now! I believe in Saint Nick. But despite the rumors, he's not currently living...at the North Pole.

 

[dlamberth]

If you could go back in time for 24 hours, where would you go?

I'd like to go back and re-do a few choices I made in life. Some of which were really bad and hurtful.

 

[AV1611VET]

I'd like to go back and re-do a few choices I made in life. Some of which were really bad and hurtful.

But you only have 24 hours!

Spoiler

Just kidding!

 

[partinobodycular]

If you could go back in time for 24 hours, where would you go?

My plan 'A' is to live until time travel becomes possible, then I'll go back in time to get my dog. I WANT MY DOG BACK... NO IF's, AND's, or BUT's. Catholicism holds that pets don't have an afterlife... therefore, heaven or not, I simply refuse to die. My plan 'B' is any religion that'll let me get my dog back. Christianity is therefore low man on the totem pole. Sorry Christians... you're supposed heaven has nothing that I want.

 

[dlamberth]

But you only have 24 hours!

Spoiler

Just kidding!

Good point...I need a lot more time than than.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I would go back to Egypt circa 2500 BC to find out how the engineers completely messed up building what should have been a true pyramid.

Hmm. Now that I see it again, I wonder...

How did they realize it was to steep? Did the upper part fail and they put the shallower top on the part that didn't fail after clearing the debris? Did the building inspector finally show up?

 

[AV1611VET]

Sorry Christians... you're supposed heaven has nothing that I want.

Except maybe your dog.

(And sorry for your loss.)

 

[AV1611VET]

Good point...I need a lot more time than than.

I was just kidding.

 

[dlamberth]

I was just kidding.

I know. I saw the spoiler alert. Thx.

 

[sjastro]

Hmm. Now that I see it again, I wonder...

How did they realize it was to steep? Did the upper part fail and they put the shallower top on the part that didn't fail after clearing the debris? Did the building inspector finally show up?

An engineering disaster.

There is evidence within the core of the Bent Pyramid that it was begun as a much smaller pyramid, with a slope of some 60°. Structural problems, caused mainly by the unstable sandy underground, forced the builders to encase this central pyramid in a girdle with a slope of 54°27'44". This was the slope for the lower part of the pyramid as it stands today. Unfortunately, the building technique that was used -a technique going back to the Step Pyramids which consisted of using inward leaning courses- did not help to stabilise this monument. Fearing that the pyramid would collapse under its own weight, its slope was lowered to 43°22' somewhere halfway up the building.

Bent Pyramid at Dashur | The Ancient Egypt Site

The Bent Pyramid was the second attempt at building a geometrical pyramid in Egypt. The angle was changed halfway to prevent the building from collapsing.

www.ancient-egypt.org

 

[Tuur]

If you could go back in time for 24 hours, where would you go?

Maybe skip this thread?

 

[AV1611VET]

Maybe skip this thread?

For 24 hours?

You don't need to go back in time to do that.

 

[partinobodycular]

Except maybe your dog.

But according to Catholicism, my dog's not there, and with all due respect to other Christian denominations, I have to presume that Catholicism is the preeminent authority on the matter. Hence, I reject their reality, and substitute my own.

 

[AV1611VET]

But according to Catholicism, my dog's not there, and with all due respect to other Christian denominations, I have to presume that Catholicism is the preeminent authority on the matter. Hence, I reject their reality, and substitute my own.

Wow -- no comment.

 

[SelfSim]

But according to Catholicism, my dog's not there, and with all due respect to other Christian denominations, I have to presume that Catholicism is the preeminent authority on the matter. Hence, I reject their reality, and substitute my own.

You dog wasn't Baptised then .. 'Original Sin' and all of that ..

 

[Larniavc]

Ha.

Id go back and buy a lot of walmart,
Apple, bitcoin, berkshire hathaway...

I’d go back to this afternoon. I had a really relaxing day. Nice and peaceful.