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Well, the New York Post has a story that there's a new theory about how the pyramids got built. And maybe they used — apparently there was a lot of water in that area back in the pyramid building days. There were rivers and canals. And they may have used the rivers and canals to power the building of the pyramid. So they may have been harnessing the water power to help them lift the heavy blocks. I'm not sure exactly how they harnessed it, but if I were building a pyramid, let me tell you how I would do it.
I would start with building a canal where I could float all the big rocks. So if you wrapped enough wood around them, I think they'd all float. So you float your big rocks from the quarry right up to the pyramid. But now you've got to get the rock up to the top of the pyramid. How do you do it? Well, I don't know, but the way I'd do it is I'd have the center of the pyramid always empty, like there's a big co
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lumn in the middle of it. And I would have an underground canal so that I could move those big blocks that are floating on wood into the middle of the pyramid. And then I would close off the place that the block came from and I would fill the column with water and it would float those big blocks all the way up to the top of the pyramid, whatever has been built so far. And then you just take it off…
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