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It must have been ancient aliens! (media.piefed.social)

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Explanation: A lunatic proposal that sometimes is passed around is that many of the great architectural marvels of antiquity were constructed or assisted by ANCIENT ALIENS despite the utter lack of evidence to even vaguely suggest such a thing, and often with very basic mistakes about the history or construction of the questioned structures. Curiously, such accusations of assistance by ancient aliens are almost exclusively leveled towards non-white civilizations by extremely Eurocentric authors.

This is only a coincidence, I'm sure. /s

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Milo Rossi would appreciate this I think

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I love his take on ancient aliens folks as being mechanically incompetent and having soft hands.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Though the Pantheon in Rome is a legitimately marvelous piece of engineering that they were somehow able to pull off nearly 2,000 years ago.

The only difference is that the Pantheon says who made it right on the front facade, and obviously the aliens would never lie to us about that.

(I know Agrippa's original structure was actually rebuilt by Hadrian, but still)

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

The only difference is that the Pantheon says who made it right on the front facade, and obviously the aliens would never lie to us about that.

Only ROMANS could be so duplicitous as to lie about their work!

[–] teft@piefed.social 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I once watched a numberphile video with Hannah Fry talking about how the romans built straight tunnels through mountains.

Ancient people were smart as fuck.

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They built straight tunnels through mountains with water

That shit is crazy all the way

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you have any sources? I would love to read about this.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 month ago

i think any stream will do

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fingerprints of the Gods isn’t about aliens building things, it’s about the worldwide phenomena of (humans) building stone monuments in astronomical alignments that seem to suggest a common purpose.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ugh I hate that stupid argument pseudoscience always uses. Look at this same thing these completely separated groups of humans did, there must be some external factor like ALIENS making it happen. Except there is no such thing as completely separated groups of humans, we are all related. We all have the same brains, which are very complicated machines. We also live on the same planet and interact with the same things. We have the same needs and wants etc. So no wonder we do the same things when facing similar circumstances or trying to solve similar things.

Plus there is the whole "big stable pile of rocks" thing, which is survival bias at work.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I really like the argument:

Oh, the extremely high pile of almost impossible to move rocks? Nah, if I claimed people didn't do those, you would be able to disprove me in minutes in the internet. No, the smoking gun is that the piles are turned this way! Only aliens would build the piles on this direction!

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

It happens all the time. There's a limited number of ways to solve a problem, and nature will trend towards a certain optimum. That's why we have wolves, and Tasmanian wolves, which are basically the same and yet completely unrelated. That's why basically every culture has a form of canoo, and why there are marsupial and placental moles, or hummingbirds and sunbirds. And why American and African pyramids look roughly alike. Or why pretty much every culture has pottery, or fire.