Collapsible blimp? Nonsense. A better plan: inflate the pyramid. All the passages will get bigger and then you can just walk in.
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Here’s the mouse that’ll “man” the blimp’s gondola ala March of The Wooden Soldiers.
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Not a single Stargate reference? Boing Boing users, I’m disappointed in you.
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“Indeed” Teal’c
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I agree. Egiptian architects may not have suffered from horror vacui, particularly in places that could not be seen. Why use a lot of stone blocks if they are not needed?
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The archaeologists are probably expecting the space to be utterly empty, and are OK with that - they’ll be thrilled to write detailed papers on the construction techniques revealed by studying the stone blocks on the walls of the room. If they find some millennia old masonry tools or an inscription, that’ll be a fun bonus.
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I have this vision of the researchers sending in the blimp, but then it crash. In embarrassment they cover up the hole and everyone forgets about it. 1000 years later a new group of archeologists make a thorough exploration of the pyramid and find this strange piece of technology hidden away in a sealed chamber. To them it will be like the Antikythera mechanism, something that show the ancient Egyptians were much more advanced than anyone believed.
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Easy, we just need to set off a Big Bang in the middle. How the faster than light inflation is dealt with is left as an exercise for the student.
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The sad part? I’ve been rewatching every SG series for a month, now, every episode, all day, playing in the upper right corner of my screen while I work. Just started SG:U over the weekend. 328 episodes (so far), three movies.
And it didn’t even occur to me.
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Since it’s Egyptian antiquities, a test exploration using this amazing new technology is currently scheduled for 2079.
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You underestimate dating technology. I imagine there will be enough traces of the right nucleides to show that it must have been created post-1945.
Nowadays they date rocks by looking at the amount of trapped He-4 created by alpha particle emission. You would be shocked how sensitive this stuff is.
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Archaeologists expect an empty space, the pyramid-loving public expect radioactive mummies. In between these expectations there is advertising slot gold! But yeah, at best we can hope for the ancient Egyptian version of construction-worker detritus.
They’ll have to make the hole large enough for Zahi Hawass to get in there and take credit for everything they find.
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A tiny hologram of him could ride in the gondola of the mini blimp.
Few days ago I saw a video of an archaeologist explaining why there is probably no big secret chamber to explore. Muon imaging can’t tell you if you detect a lot of small holes or one big hole, just like when you make a X-ray radio of the human body.
Sadly the ScanPyramids mission didn’t had any archaeologist or Egyptologist among them to explain them that the pyramids cores probably are just big messy piles of rocks full of gaps.
This mini blip looks really cool, I bet it could be really useful in places like Fukushima.
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