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And then there was Upuaut11 Nov 2002 In order to fully understand why I find this so fascinating, you have to travel back in time to 1996. My roommate, John, and I were up very very late and flipping through the channels. Then, lo and behold, a program comes on A&E. It was about Upuaut, a small robot designed to climb the "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. This robot would crawl up these steep shafts to find out what was up there. The program was absolutely hilarious to our 2:00-in-the-morning sensitivities. The background music and the narration were dramatized to where we were in stitches. Imagine deep, ominous background music while looking at the feed from Upuaut as it sat in the "air shaft" some distance up from the burial chamber. A crack in the stone is visible. The narrator intones (a paraphrase, at least), "What mysteries lie beyond this obstacle?" You had to be there... Now, six years later, I was reminded of that program. I did a web search. Upuaut has its own website! www.cheops.org I started reading this and became utterly fascinated. I think I was reading websites about Upuaut, its creator Rudolf Gantenbrink, and Mystery of the Door, for hours. There is much to be found out there. It is a story of sacrifice, politics, empire building, and petty rivalry. But I'm only summing my own opinions.
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