My crackpot theory is that aliens showed up, told the Egyptians at lasergun-point to build them pyramids, but then didn't give them any help at all. The Egyptians had to work out all the trigonometry and engineering entirely for themselves, while those lazy fucking aliens hung back and contributed absolutely nothing. Fuck those goddamn lazy space aliens.
41Excuse me, they're 'job creators.'
17Damn Goa'uld.
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Don't tell me what to do! :-P
18Very heavy Cunk On Earth vibes on this one.
17The first thing any 10 year old with a pile of rocks does is build a pyramid with them. But "oh man it's so esoteric!!!"
17These weren't built in Egypt at all. They imported them from the Mayans.
13Imagine the customs fee on that
9... who had licensed them from the Toltecs.
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My favorite thing people say is that we don't have the technology to rebuild the pyramids today. Wait, we are able to build skyscrapers but not able to stack some bricks in a specific shape?
12You moron. Build it from the top down, then just flip it over
12Wouldn’t that be from the top up?
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i think the people saying its a mystery just didnt want to admit it was slave labour
10Nah, it's just good old fashioned legacy colonial racism.
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pseudoarchaeology-racism/
17That's dumb, I'm sure some think that because of racism but that can be said of anything. I think for most it's due to the mystery about their construction that still remains and the seeming impossibility of moving huge numbers of truly massive blocks 6000 years ago. If it was an equivalent sized castle or something built with blocks that could be carried by one or two people there would be less motivation to look for crazy explanations.
Not everything is racist.
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Maybe that's what they mean when they say we couldn't build the pyramids with modern technology. Not nearly enough slaves.
7Except they weren't built by slaves...
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You do build steel grain bins from the top, down, however
9Maybe you do
11This fact was knocking around my brain already and I suspect I have Destin Sandlin to thank for it.
3Found an Australian.
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Secret trick no one knows to make your own pyramid
-Slaves
4For most monuments, yea. But in building these all the workers had 3 monthish stints, were fully paid, and had lodgings near the worksite!
14Don't forget the beerbread, that's what really sold it.
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The Shard in London was built using a top-down approach https://www.architecturelab.net/architecture/landmark/the-shard/
4The ‘top-down’ construction method was used, which allowed the first 23 stories to be built before the basement was fully excavated.
So it was aliens, got it.
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Graham Hancock has entered the chat.
3Also they probably packed in dirt to act as ramps, and shit loads of labor.
2It may be passed 4am, and I may be high, but I don't understand why people think aliens had anything to do with the pyramids. Like, is it so farfetched of an idea for humans, back then, to know about 3d triangles?? I don't get it.
2I think it was aliens! Actually not really but a tiny bit maybe. And not that aliens built them, but that knowledge of how to do certain things came from aliens or even earlier humans and maybe was lost (ok I've been watching too much Why Files).
The reason why for me is the large stone size. Understanding simple geometry is one thing, sure, but moving thousands of multi-ton blocks miles and stacking them with precision is another. If it's so easy, I'd like to see a demonstration. We should be able to do it in a year or so by now right?
Also, I find it interesting that we can see with satellites roads used thousands of years ago buried by the Amazon, why doesn't there seem to be remnants of the roads and massive ramps that it's claimed were used to transport these massive blocks for the decades it took to build the pyramids? Also, I'd imagine a massive earthen ramp large enough to do the job would put a good amount of force on the pyramid that could push blocks out of position but that doesn't seem to have happened.
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We learned many things from the mighty Egyptians, such as pyramid building, space travel... and how to prepare our dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello.
1But did the ancient Egyptians pump up the jam?
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It's amazing what you can achieve with........slaves.
-1Exactly. I was actually thinking of that.
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