So I guess the Nile is the water feature? Craig Bligh Technical Writer, Product Development MXL Consolidated Pty Ltd Level 3, 62 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000 Phone +61 2 8249 0000 Fax +61 2 8249 0099 Email craig.bligh@xxxxxxx www.mxl.com Wise Software Solutions for the Global Education Market -----Original Message----- From: Michael Edward Granat [mailto:megranat@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:58 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [austechwriter] Re: How they build the Pyramids (Was Re: All About Indesign) See below: At 20:21 21/8/2003 +1000, you wrote: >just today as I was slaving away (cut to shots of slaves dragging large >blocks of stone to top of pyramids) Wrong, Sean (O.D-H). Let's see... How did they build the great pyramids at El Giza? a. Aliens built them, cutting the stone with laser beams and popping the blocks into place with tractor beams from their flying saucers. b. Slaves cut huge stone blocks with microscopic accuracy, using hand tools, then pushed them hundreds of kilometres from the nearest quarries, using the last remaining trees as rollers, then were lifted into place by goodness knows what. c. Nobody built them - they're a hologram projected to confuse the tourists. d. They were formed out of a superior concrete that was poured into place, block by block, making all the seams look perfect. According to a geology conference of a few years ago (that was promoted in The Age, back in July 1998) if you said "d", go to the top of the class for choosing the only likely method. They're concrete, mate! (Small pink Grollo mixer trucks have been found buried nearby, not!) Full of crushed stone from nearby quarries, sure, but they are made from something far better than our so called modern concrete - a geopolymer of all sorts of goodies. The investigating geologists even found flow lines in the stone. How else could the Egyptians have built them in less than the lifetime of a pharaoh? BTW, I hear that In-design is ace. Would love to attend but it's a 1000 kilometre hike up the Hume. Hope the meeting is a success. Sincerely, Michael Granat Write Ideas P.S. The unfortunate consequence of this discovery is that The Sphinx is now considered to be the world's largest garden gnome. P.P.S. You should have seen the mailbox that went with it! P.P.P.S. If anyone wants to receive a JPEG image of a scan of that Age advertorial, just E-mail me direct. ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************** ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************