[Jeff Higgins]

Heh heh, yup, all in good fun. I see the aliens thing, and particularly the Mars connection, as kind of a "red herring", maybe intentionally so. The discussion regarding the fit and finish of 80 ton blocks, some elevated to 400 feet in the air, is what intrigues me. We really have no rational explanation for that, how it was accomplished in period. Like i said, we would have one hell of a time doing it today, with the precision demonstrated at least in the Giza pyramid. Thousands and thousands of people forced into slave labor ain't gonna do it, no matter how many of them at your disposal, nor how long you have to sustain such an effort. Yet that seems to be the go-to "explanation".

Giza is in a far, far different league than things like Stonehenge and similarly "small" structures wherein it would be entirely conceivable that man and animal "power", intelligently applied, could actually raise the stones in place. Precise fitting of smaller stones is equally explainable, with skilled masons working by hand. I've explored Stonehenge, many Roman ruins, Mayan and Inca ruins, Medieval ruins, and the like (one of the more satisfying benefits of my world travels while fixing airplanes). None of them even come close to Giza. It combines the "best of the best" of all of them, from the precise fit to its incredible accuracy of shape and dimension. Then it trumps them all through the sheer size of its component parts. It would be a challenge even today, with modern machinery, survey equipment, and all of that.