Posted by JoeBloe on 10/14/06 02:16

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:37:05 -0500, Doug McDonald
<mcdonald@SnPoAM_scs.uiuc.edu> Gave us:

>Well, yes. But the base of the Great Pyramid would be rather
>boring, would it not ... just one layer of stones?


Actually, that first layer was an engineering feat beyond compare!

Absolutely perfectly level, and true to the axis of the planet. The
error off true north is about one twelfth of a degree.

Lasers didn't come until nearly 5000 years later.

We can't even hang a picture straight... (well I CAN)!

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