The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 47 -
The great ring road upon the sixth pair of equatorial belts.
You have already heard, with the presentation of Uranus, that one of their basic codes is that all their roads must be straight. Although the turning out of straight highways upon that fairly large planet is fraught with many thousands of difficulties, these problems nonetheless are minor compared to those that the terrain of this equatorial belt presents, upon this big solar world.
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Upon the planet, the mountains are at the most, five or six times the height of your highest mountains upon Earth. What is this compared to the height of the mountains upon the sun, which are measured not in metres but miles? Now think of a main highway construction that merely travels over the middle altitude of the lands of this belt, remembering the vast number of deep gorges, the many massive streams, waterfalls, seas and even the occasional sea inlets. Pondering this, you will realise what is involved in building a straight road there.
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But consider furthermore that this highway is a ringroad around the entire solar equatorial belt, both the northern and southern ones (with only the variant of rather rounded guardrails in the south compared to more square ones in the north). Consider furthermore the length of this highway - just on 200,000 GM (1,484,000km).
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The more you think about it, the more magnificent this road will seem to you. Remember also that this highway is a uniform four kilometres wide, and you shall stop dead in your tracks! Consider furthermore over how any thousands of gorges, these bridges must lead, some dropping to a depth of seventy-two kilometres below highway level. Behold, notwithstanding such incredible difficulties, this solid sculptured road nevertheless runs on, high above such dizzying abysses.
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Therewith you have a sketch. But you will say that this road indeed comes into the domain of the possible, but we can only say of building it: this undertaking is indeed possible to God, but let whoever will, believe that created beings also can bring it about, given the materials and mighty hands! We will continue to regard the thing as impossible until shown what higher powers are at the disposal of these people and how they proceed therewith, to bring it within the realm of their hands!
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But I say: just a little patience! Look at some of your animals and compare their work with yours, and your shame shall make you shudder in that you will have to regard the products of your greatest craftsmanship as miserable snail shells. To make it clearer I will take you to a two-metre high anthill. Take this work in conjunction with the size of its builders! By comparison to your size and strength it would be as if you had put up a Chimborasso or the Himalayan mountains? If you think this exaggerated, just do some sums and you shall find the comparison substantiated.
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Take an ant for example and how, together with its tiny head it is hardly one line above the ground; then take the not infrequent three metres height of a big anthill. Divide the number of one-line heights into a height of nine feet. Then multiply your own height by the result and imagine how high your building would have to be to compare it proportionately to this anthill. I shall not even mention the thousand passages and catacombs within this anthill, which are gigantic by comparison with their builders; for it is sufficient to compare only the size of the hill to highlight the building power of these tiny insects to your own.
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Take also the building of a bee and how boldly it hangs its hive of cells by a mere two lines thick brown wax handle from a wall, which surely says more than if by comparison you were to hang your biggest palace by some massive chains upon some high airborne bow.
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Consider furthermore a spider web, how far this animal often draws out its thread, building its web in the midst of these threads mid-air. Does that not say as much as if by comparison you had stretched heavy wires and ropes between the highest alpine peaks, setting up suspension-bridges over gaping gorges and valleys therewith?
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I could present you with many still more marvellous building skills of small animals but the above shall suffice for now. On looking at this closely, you shall recognise your comparatively inferior building capacity. If however these tiny animals put you to shame in their respect, how should it be so inexplicable to you that there should be people who would put your building capacity into the shade on a still larger scale?
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And such are the very people of our sixth solar belt. Their main prowess expresses itself in building, although spiritually it corresponds to those physical human organs through which the actual vegetative building of the body are effected.
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Knowing this, we can pass on to the actual building procedure adopted for such colossal roads. Where such highways run over wide stretches of mountain plateaus, the building is, of course, easier and the effort more minimal. But if passing over deep valleys and gorges, then the difficulties are correspondingly greater, for it can continue over lofty bridges. How are these erected?
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These bridges over a valley or gorge are subdivided into floors, one arch rising above another until reaching the highway level. After that the spaces between the arches are filled in and massive, well-masoned stone slates laid over them and each side fitted with a fairly high stone railing of several metres wide. The floor of this arch work frequently reaches a thickness from one hundred to two hundred metres and in places of gaping valley depths, close on two thousand arch works rise one above another.
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It may be asked how long it takes a building technologists to complete this gigantic arch-work, especially when a mountain valley measures one hundred of your miles (GM) in width? I say unto you: hardly as long as it takes you to erect an average private house. Because firstly, often on such occasions, several million hands get to work erecting, while many prepare the materials and many again deliver them.
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Here too, only the lowest arches are built with great masoned cuboid stones, joined with an especially sticky stone mortar, whilst the higher levels are built with bricks made from a tough clay (readily available in the gigantic mountains of this equator). The baking is done in the sunshine until they turn a brownish colour, producing a powerful tone when struck, signifying their finished state, with these qualities.
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Thus we see how this highway runs above valleys and gorges: we are still left with rivers, seas and even sea inlets. What building procedure is adopted there?
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Just a little patience and we shall see how enterprising and skilful and tenacious these master builders are. They first build a type of ship from solid wood, with a width of forty metres and a length of two thousand metres, this being no problem for them due to an abundance of luscious forest trees, which often surpass the Pyramid trees upon Saturn.
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When this ship, or rather raft is finished, building starts upon it and it begins to sink deeper because of the weight of materials on it. When the first raft layer is level with the water surface another layer of hewed and stripped tree trunks is piled on top and firmly secured with braces, after which the pylon is built up in turn upon the raft. When this layer pushes the barge further into the water another layer is put down and so on. This is continued until the builders see whether at last one side has foundered on the bottom. If the seabed is level then there is no problem, and the pylon can then be built on further up to many thousands of metres.
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If the ground under the water is not level, this of course creates considerable difficulties, and trained divers are sent down to either level the ground or fill it in with materials sent down.
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Sometimes the cliff chasms are too deep for filling, yet the pylon must have a solid foundation. How do they proceed? A massive metal base is prepared and sunk into the water and manoeuvred on top of the protruding rocks so skilfully under the raft mast pylon that it sits upon the huge metal platform.
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You may well ask: do these workers not suffocate (drown) when working underwater for such lengthy periods? No, this is not the case, firstly because upon this equatorial belt there is not as much difference between the solar air and the water as there is on Earth. Because the air is much denser the water is therefore thinner. Thus a trained man can breathe quite easily under water, getting the water into his powerful lungs instead of the air. But this conditioning has to be acquired in earliest childhood otherwise the man suffocates. Wherefore conditioning of several of such people is always under way, as with your sailors, who quite often are capable of living a half or an entire hour underwater well preserved.
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These pylons are then commenced by the thousands simultaneously at about forty metre intervals, depending on the width of the river or sea. When the pylons are properly and firmly anchored at the base, they are interconnected with metal rods at the top. Only then are further pylons erected over the others within the arches, with floors of arches continuing to rise above each other until level with the highway, whereupon the same procedure is adopted as over the valleys.
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What are the road builders going to do when confronted with a fairly wide sea inlet, after their deep-sea probing reveals that their measuring plungers don't reach the sea bed? Because often these bays can be not merely hundreds or thousands of metres but sometimes from three hundred and seventy to seven hundred and forty kilometres deep!
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Here they resorted to barge technology. But such ships are then of a colossal size to match the road, except they use massive logs in place of masoned stone for putting a bridge in place, the latter must however also rise to the level of the highway.
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Firstly this ship is built from the most colossal trees and actually take on the shape of a basket rather than a ship. This ship "basket" then usually is 7.42km long (one GM) and one kilometre wide. The walls of this ship "basket" are usually six hundred metres high and secured as if for eternity, floor upon floor with massive iron rods and braces. Besides three layers of the most massive logs, the floor of this ship is covered with a kind of thick metallic tin. In the water the wood turns into stone. Above water it is saturated with a kind of mixture that makes it indestructible, as if for eternity also. Within this bridge of ships, each ship is fastened to the other with immensely strong metal braces to form a continuous "ship-basket" right across the bight of the entire sea.
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Hence cast a spiritual glance at this ship-bridge from some height and you will have to concede, that by comparison, even your most opulent fantasies will seem to you like pictures in miniature.
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Of course this road is not built over here nowadays, because this highway is already older than your human population on Earth, going back some sixty thousand years. Nonetheless, secondary access roads are at this time being connected to this main road and the main highway maintenance kept up, which frequently amounts to replacement of sections.
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Behold, therewith we have presented the largest structures of these equatorial people. Having nothing further to add we shall go to inspect a temple next time.