aLiEnS!!1

For some reason people seem to think they’re fundamentally smarter than people were back then.

Yeah, you may have technically had a better education, but you’re not inherently more intelligent than the average person back then, and a genius from that time is still miles ahead of you.

It's fair to imagine the challenges a building team would face 2k plus years ago.

Like in this example, building levers that are strong enough to lift the load. I bet they broke a bunch of stuff.

But eventually they figured it out, via trial and error. Levers, ramps, etc. They probably couldn't describe why those things were inherently the best way, but more approached from the "we tried 9 other ways and they suck. This is the best way."

Next, the phrase "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" is relevant here, but in a backwards way.

Since we struggle to imagine what it would take for an ancient society to master the techniques to build these things, we therefore begin to grasp for unrealistic conclusions (magic...read...aliens).

Same goes for Europeans building cathedrals and stuff, the trick is the history, the methods and the results were more documented and understood.

There are some racism concerns that I think go beyond and around what I've discussed, which is more abstract. I'm not discounting the other topics, just not covering them here.

Pretty sure the Egyptians were smart enough. But the European cathedrals cannot be explained w/o aliens

The constant barrage of Joe Rogan clips of idiots claming it was impossible to move these huge stones over those distances with the tech at the time was what drove me to disable YouTube shorts.

Lifting it is like 1/100th of the challenge. Moving it across hundreds of miles, cutting it, getting it to the top of the pyramid, and setting it in place are all bigger problems than simply lifting the stone.

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world,"

A couple years ago my chemistry teacher told my class that the Egyptians had really advanced technology (technology even more advanced than our own) thousands of years ago but it all got lost because they started a nuclear war

Edit: she told us that the evidence was that there were smartphone paintings

But we all know the lever was invented by Jayzus Christ in America when Washington and Lincoln were reading the Bible and praying together!

Also, ramps.

Actually I was listening to a podcast that explains this. They didn't have levers yet. They did have other devices but no lever.

“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ”

• Archimedes

I know how they're built because I watch Witual. Internal ramp theory babeeee!

Friendly reminder the Mayans had a highway

The aliens had to come to Earth to learn how to build pyramids from us

The great pyramid of Giza weighs around 6 million tons https://weightofstuff.com/how-much-does-the-pyramid-of-giza-weigh/

An average human can apparently develop about 200N https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/push1.html

Meaning that an average human would need a lever about 3×10^8 m long (considering a 1 metre load arm) to move the pyramid.

Do you find this credible?

ETA: some people think I'm serious. This is quite the flabbergast.

Nah, we all know the Great Pyramids were part of the “Giza Mass Autism Array” fired during the Finno-Korean Hyperwar. RIP Finnish social skills

Ancient alien theory is extremely racist and I am shocked people don't reject it on those grounds alone.

Me, looking at the meme: I wonder what happened to that giant pole they put on top of the pyramid to lift the giant weight?

You've cracked vertical lifting, now onto moving blocks a thousand miles from the quarry!

I don't think they had levers strong enough to lift up those big rocks without snapping at a... I think the term is "sheer point"?

Now find sticks or stick assembly strong enough to lift a few tones of stone without breaking at the rotation center

Egyptian slaves built the pyramids.