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parasearchers Donating Member (264 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:24 PM
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Huge Cave Complex May Lie Beneath Giza Pyramids
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 06:07 PM by parasearchers
An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.

Populated by bats and venomous spiders, the underground complex was found in the limestone bedrock beneath the pyramid field at Giza.

"There is untouched archaeology down there, as well as a delicate ecosystem that includes colonies of bats and a species of spider which we have tentatively identified as the white widow," British explorer Andrew Collins said.


http://parasearcher.blogspot.com/2009/08/cave-complex-may-lie-beneath-giza.html
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TexasLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:26 PM
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1. wow, hope they can give us lots more info
I love this stuff. Thanks for posting
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parasearchers Donating Member (264 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:04 PM
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8. Thanks! :)
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:26 PM
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2. you gotta love anything with bats and venomous spiders --
that is unless a drunken irshman is worried about your sex life.
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_dynamicdems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:28 PM
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3. That's exciting.
Well, except for the bats and venomous spiders.

Photos here: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/13/caves-giza.html
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:20 PM
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17. Thank you for doing Miss. Cleo's work for her.
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 06:20 PM by Ian David
Yes, THAT article is interesting.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/13/caves-giza.html
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_dynamicdems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 08:38 PM
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29. Fascinating. Can't wait for the Discovery special on this.
And "they" say there isn't much left on the earth to be discovered. They, as usual, are wrong. :)
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:33 PM
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4. This would be exciting if it wasn't from a paranormal site posted in the forum for REAL science.
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 05:35 PM by Ian David
This may be true.

But can you find it from someone who doesn't think Bigfoot might rape his sister?

Oh, wait...

That's YOUR site?

Sorry.

Take your woo-woo crap elsewhere.

PS: Dear god you're sloppy. You even link to the wrong fucking article on your website.

What the FUCK, man!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:06 PM
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 07:31 PM
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26. is the Discovery Channel website any better of a source?
this was linked to from Archeologica's Archeology news links page last week
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/13/caves-giza.html
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 11:06 PM
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33. No.
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:03 PM
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31. What makes you so crude????
Just wondering???????
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crikkett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 12:58 PM
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38. groovy, another name for my ignore list!
you really went too far in your disapproval, Ian David. I'm happy to ignore you.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:44 PM
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5. Snakes.. Why couldn't there have been snakes?
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parasearchers Donating Member (264 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:07 PM
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11. :)
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:45 PM
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6. A couple of tips
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 06:05 PM by salvorhardin
1) Learn how to use permalinks. In Blogger blogs, they are the links with the time in them on your posts. Like this: http://parasearcher.blogspot.com/2009/08/cave-complex-may-lie-beneath-giza.html

That way you can link directly to the blog post without making people scan backwards through the front page of your blog.


2) Please don't post pseudoscience in the science forum.
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Howardx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:07 PM
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10. its ok to be a dick though
apparently.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:16 PM
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13. Being a dick works for me. n/t
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parasearchers Donating Member (264 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:11 PM
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12. Well looking at my posts, nothing I have posted has been far out.
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 06:12 PM by parasearchers
And if you bothered to look the originator of the article was MSNBC.

Look before you leap :)
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:17 PM
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14. There IS no original article. You linked your cave article to a piece about UFOs.
Am I supposed to channel the cave article telepathically from there?
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parasearchers Donating Member (264 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:19 PM
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16. gosh you really ought to look at it again, use the mouse, thats the
item on your table next to your computer :) Click on that link, on the article.

Have you thought about getting Anger Management therapy?
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:22 PM
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19. You fixed the link AFTER I pointed it out to you.
Come on.

You can't be sloppy AND stupid at the same time.

It might give people a negative impression of woo-woo.
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parasearchers Donating Member (264 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:23 PM
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21. Wow, Someones Off their Lithium Drip. :)
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:23 PM
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22. Wow, someone's power crystals have misaligned their chakra.
May I suggest a coffee enema?
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parasearchers Donating Member (264 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:25 PM
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23. Tsk Tsk, dont you know all that Crystals and Chakra stuff are Psuedo Science?
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 06:26 PM by parasearchers
Really, I would have thought you were more enlightened :)
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:27 PM
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24. Did Bigfoot tell you that during a UFO abduction?
This is actually kind of fun.

No hard feelings?
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Howardx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:18 PM
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15. was it "psuedoscience" when schliemann found troy?
based on what was written in the iliad? this isnt much different than that.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:22 PM
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20. Nope. This looks valid, despite the lack of credibility of the OP.
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 06:48 PM by Ian David
Now that they've fixed their blog to link to a legitimate source in the reality-based community.
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:20 PM
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18. So then link to the actual article.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 05:46 PM
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7. .
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 05:46 PM by frogcycle
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 07:13 PM
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25. Not really surprising...
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 07:18 PM by Why Syzygy
but fortunate!

Here's the MSNBC link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32417238/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Here's where "modern science" breaks down.

Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has dismissed the discovery.

"There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We know everything about the plateau," he stated.

That's what the archologist in England said too, after they found a new Stonehenge.

No professional jealousy at all...

http://www.drhawass.com/
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 07:47 PM
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27. That guy is such a dick
All he does is block any opportunities to study any sites in Egypt. EVER.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 08:07 PM
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You've got to wonder about their motives.
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 08:09 PM by Why Syzygy
Why enter a discovery field where everything is already discovered?

Like this one:

Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise. (...)

"I think everybody assumed such monument complexes were known about or had already been discovered," added Pollard, a co-leader of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, which is funded in part by the National Geographic Society. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.) (...)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090615-stonehenge-tombs-crop-circles.html

edit: The Grovelbot took my post number#!!
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_dynamicdems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 08:44 PM
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30. He is, isn't he?
And notice how he only gives opportunities to people who agree with him (and who put him in their specials)?

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Silver Gaia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 11:58 PM
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39. Agreed.
My hubby (archaeologist) says he's a sloppy archaeologist, too. We watched him on TV when he was opening a sarcophagus in some tomb (can't remember who/what it was), and he was incredibly sloppy in what he was doing. Not careful at all.
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14thColony Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 06:18 PM
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40. Zawass will later claim HE made the discovery
during his next action-packed Discovery Channel special of him exploring the caves.
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:50 PM
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32. Is this the Cuba-was-Atlantis Andrew Collins?
If it is, I actually found his ideas a lot more plausible than most Atlantis theories -- but it still puts him pretty far out on the margin.

And then there's this, which argues that the angels of the Bible were really alien bird-men: http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Article/The_Forbidden_Legacy_Part_One.html

Interesting enough if you're in the mood for unfettered speculation, but not exactly the guy you'd go to for serious archaeology.
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parasearchers Donating Member (264 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:09 AM
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35. interesting, dont know about that
I was going off what the two news sources said. Would be interesting to know if he was the same one.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 11:10 PM
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:33 AM
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36. Find more on this story at Discovery News
Cave Complex Allegedly Found Under Giza Pyramids
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 11:41 AM
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37. I'm not surprised. You think the aliens...
Made their human slaves build that shit just for the hell of it? I'm kidding, of course. I watched the History channel last Sunday, LOL. FASCINATING! I can't wait to find out more.
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