Mercury, Venus, and Saturn will not align on top of the pyramids.
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Even with the other watermarked photo, the planets will not line up on top of the pyramids.
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Quote:In this picture, north is up and east is to the right. The planetary conjunction happens before sunrise, and as you can see from this satellite view you have to face southeast to see it. That means to see the planets and the pyramids together you’d have to be to the northwest of the pyramids. I added an arrow to the picture here to show that.http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...L0JFJPjkkd
From that position to the northwest, the biggest of the three pyramids (Khufu) will be on your left, and the littlest (Menkaure) on your right (this map may help).
You may see where I’m going with this. Look back at the viral picture, and you’ll see they got the pyramids backwards. The little one is on the left (the one in the middle looks like it’s the biggest, but that’s because it’s built on ground 10 or so meters higher than the big pyramid), which means this picture was taken to the southwest of the pyramids, facing northeast. [Note: a few folks have pointed out I was close, but off a bit. Because the pyramids overlap in the picture, the camera viewpoint is clearly close to being in line with them, making it more like south-by-southwest of the pyramids and facing north-by-northeast. This doesn't change my argument though: the planets would still be behind you!]
In other words, if you were standing in the spot where the viral photo was taken and faced the pyramids, the planets would be behind you.
Oops.
Again, this may be forgivable if the picture is just supposed to be an example of what you’d see. But it’s more evidence that this event may not unfold exactly as claimed.
Even with the other watermarked photo, the planets will not line up on top of the pyramids.