I need this mysterious "rock expanding" technology.
It is amazing to me how these people call the ancient Egyptians primitive.
Although they may be considered primitive by today's technological standards, they were very, very smart and accomplished tremendous things with very little resource.
They were not primitive intellectually. They were smart, capable and intelligent people.
Two more points I'd like to address about the cutting of these rocks number one archaeologists replicated the way these rocks would be cut with technology they would have during the time that these rocks were cut. Number two. They would drag the rocks. They dragged the rocks.
Oh, and constructions like the Great pyramids would often take generations to complete and these weren't done in a couple of years these things took decades if not more.
They had the exact same brains we do. Something people like this seem to not understand.
TBF, the ancient Egyptians would probably also not understand that.
Well yeah, those guys thought our hearts were our brains, but they weren't claiming it was beyond their abilities to build a pyramid.
Although they may be considered primitive by today's technological standards, they were very, very smart and accomplished tremendous things with very little resource.
They were not primitive intellectually. They were smart, capable and intelligent people.
This is exactly the point many people don't understand: People in the past were not less intelligent than today's people.
We developed more ways to discover stuff and more precise tools to measure and detect things and of course with computers we got the ability to handle extremely complex data. All of this gives us an edge over past people science wise but we had very capable thinkers 200, 600 and 4000 years ago. All basic principles of mathematics have been developed a long time ago.
They also see something like an expertly-knapped flint hand axe and think "I could do that in my back yard in five minutes" because they don't understand that something that looks primitive might actually be a really useful tool and actually not easy to make.
The pithy version of that is that we know more things than our ancestors, but we're not smarter than them.
This is why I have a hard time taking anyone seriously who calls any human society, past or present, "primitive."
Also the current theory is, get ready for it...they used boats. They flooded the area the Pyramids were being built and just floated them in on barges. With water.
'Beyond human thinking' my ass.
They flooded the area the Pyramids were being built
I don't think that's "the current theory".
I think you might be talking about digging canals. It's conceivable that a canal would be built to take the rocks to the construction site. Just recently however we've found evidence of a tributary of the nile that flowed past the sites of a number of pyramids.
I've read tributary as trebuchet first and was equally impressed and confused for a moment.
Just launching them to the top with extreme precision so they land right into their spot.
People have said the same things about stonehenge
exception. there's a huge trend toward alien theories about human achievement based on geography. you can bet your ass even if something like the colosseum was in central africa people would be saying it's alien tech.
And virtually no other European ancient site. Stonehenge is usually the lone exception.
Aliens just didn't like white people.
yeah, because the only way that brown people could have built anything impressive is if gods/aliens helped them.
Notice how these people never call into question the coliseum or the parthenon? It's just thinly veiled racism.
I think many of the people who push this aren't overtly racist, but there is no question that the source of all of this, Madame Blavatsky, was just a racist.
I like to remind people that the heaviest stones for the pyramids were about 400 tons while a few thousand years later in Lebanon the largest stones for the temple complex in Baalbek are about 1250 tons.
But no one questions that the construction there
Ok, I'll go first... Who the fuck says 2 million and 300 thousand? Either say 2.3 million, or 2 300 000 or even two million and three hundred thousand. Fuck it, even two point three million would work. But 2 million and 300 thousand? You're the fucking alien dammit!
2 million as well as 300 thousand
Not only were humans not able to stack rocks, they didn't stack rocks in every continent that still stand to this day
where's the guy with the crazy hair
He couldn't make it as he had a prior reservation for an anal probing session
How did the aliens manage to make that when they could have spent all their time on the internet, or watching movies, playing video games, porn, going to concerts, driving cars, taking flights on airplanes, etc whatever.
It's obvious humans could never make something as advanced as a giant ...rock.
Imagine how much more video games and porn you could consume if you just had two more arms and hands?
I'm not so sure we have the brain capacity for putting one thing on top of another thing.
I don't believe that for one second.
But I'll be honest, I was thinking about cookies when I saw your reply.
What's going on?
I'm glad the size of bricks has been reduced. A wheelbarrow is useless here.
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