If you have Google Earth will you please put in the speed of light and tell me what comes up?

The person to whom I posed one of my challenge questions that had c (speed of light) as one if its answers didn’t really like my challenge all that much. 

I think I’ll post another completely evil challenge question.

This post was edited by Livvie at October 12, 2023 5:29 PM MDT

Please do...more fun for me.

AH HA!  Just as I expected.  The video I watched placed the location as the Pyramid in Egypt, then they went into this long discourse of gobblygook, which at the time seemed remotely possible.  Thank you for looking it up. 

I never got the Great Pyramids of Egypt.  When I typed 299 792 458 m / s into the search, I just got six different residential streets.

Thank You,  appears their "report" was more online hokum. 

I had to look this thing up to see what you were talking about.

Here’s the claim:  The speed of light is 299792458 m/s.  That is true.  29.9792458°N latitude passes through the Great Pyramid of Giza.  That’s also true.

The conclusion is that the ancient Egyptians calculated the speed of light and incorporated that into the design of the pyramid.  The number sequence in 299792458 m/s is the same as 29.9792458°N.  This is a coincidence, but the premise that these guys are using is that there’s no such thing as a coincidence.  If that’s their premise, then the conclusion that the speed of light was somehow baked into the design of the pyramid seems perfectly rational to them.

I’m not good enough at arguing to disprove that there are no such things as coincidences, but I do love math and numbers so I can throw some shade on their claim that way.

So, here’s what you have to believe in order to believe that the speed of light was baked into the design plans of the Great Pyramid:

The ancient Egyptians understood SI units 4370 years before the metric system was even invented.  The metre wasn’t invented until 1791.  The speed of light is only expressed as 299792458 m/s in the SI system.  The speed of light expressed in the ancient Egyptian system would have been 103041135 leagues per hour.  I don’t know exactly how they divided hours except that their system used stars for that, so I’ll use leagues per hour.

They would’ve also have had to known that in a few thousand years, a radix of 10 would be applied to the Babylonian system of measuring angles for latitude to divide degrees into decimal degrees instead of the base 60 divisions that the Babylonians used.  They would have had to know that so they could pair the future unit of measurement, the meter, with a future way of expressing latitude.  It’s amazing how they figured that out!

Wait!  There’s even more stuff you’d have to believe in order to believe the ancient Egyptians calculated the design of the Great Pyramid using SI units and decimal degrees!  Yes!  They would’ve also needed to have calculated axial precession so that 4600 years in the future, when the SI system would be used and decimal degrees would be used in some instances, 29°9792458°N would pass through the Great Pyramid of Giza!  They thought of everything, didn’t they?

So, that’s the best way I can explain what you would have to believe in order to believe the guy in the video you watched. This post was edited by Livvie at October 13, 2023 11:27 AM MDT

If you haven't slammed a chair yet, can I do it for you?

And that is what as compared? This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at October 13, 2023 11:27 AM MDT

Wrestling, I suppose. Or when someone makes a strong point and ends it by intentionally dropping the microphone.

If you want things being slammed, make Element 99, our resident science teacher read the comments on those videos, lol. 

Well, you created a "nice" video, but you should do more research about the content.
1) Look at the latitude again and you will see that you are not only "in the range of the pyramids" (or "hitting an airport size field). This latitude is less than .. I guess .. 5m away from the CENTER OF THE GREAT PYRAMID. Not mentioning that, I would say, is BAD.
2) You did not read enough about the history. a) The construction year of the pyramids far from "known". It is a great dispute whether it could have been built around this time. It is very likely thousands of years older. There is lots of evidence for this. We could measure it exactly but the Egytians do not let us complete such measurements. (It could easily determined with a scintillation measurement of sand below the pyramid.) b) It is an astonishing fact, but YES, it is proven that the meter was very well known at the time. Very few tools were found but some "rulers" just exactly reflect 1/4 of a meter. And many sizes in the pyramid are reflecting exact multiples of this "royal" measure. Also be aware that the "meter" is somehow a "natural" length since its reflected in the length of the equator. Now, ask yourself how the egyptians could know the eqator length if they only knew copy cisels. General advice: Disreagard history books and their numbers. It's mostly rubbish.

TL;DR -- Aliens.

But also, if they were this precise about the latitude, it seems to me they really fumbled the longitude.