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re: Anybody else following ancient aliens theories?
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:41 am to kingbob
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:41 am to kingbob
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Architectually speaking, pyramids are the most stable shape a building can be. Early man had no means of supporting buildings via tension, only compression. They are pure compression. Thus, the simplest, easiest, longest lasting shape early man could build.
Obviously...but why do you want to shite on aliens like that?!?
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Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:43 am to rebeloke
Mars was probably a happening place a million years ago, but then global warming happened and they ultimately lost their atmosphere so now there's barely any signs of life there. We better do something quick here about global warming are we are going to turn into Mars.
Or maybe General Zod went there with his terra forming machines and just destroyed the whole planet b/c he felt like it.
Or maybe General Zod went there with his terra forming machines and just destroyed the whole planet b/c he felt like it.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:44 am to LucasP
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None of these civilizations had contact but they all thought of floods and dragons out of nowhere?
The explanation for that doesn't have to involve alien silliness.
Look into Göbekli Tepe. What is looking most likely in light of such finds is that we had the whole timeline for human development wrong. We had probably moved on from the hunter-gatherer phase and achieved the agricultural, civilization-building stage in certain areas much earlier than we thought we did.
These civilizations probably share common architectural tendencies and mythologies like the flood because they likely share a common root in the ancient past. There was probably a great proto-civilization located in what is now the Persian Gulf. At the time, we know based on climate research and sea levels it would have been a very fertile valley, into the head of which would have flowed the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, as well as another river that is now a wadi in Saudi but would have been a great river at the time. These would have formed one giant river down the center of said valley.
This would have been the Eden of legend. Rising sea levels at the end of the last glacial maximum flooded this area. This gave rise to the flood mythology.
The exodus of peoples from this valley spread the remnants of this culture throughout the world. In the Mayan/Incan/aztec cultures you see legends of "white gods appearing on ships" to bring them knowledge. Thta isn't aliens, it's this proto culture from the Persian Gulf Valley during its diaspora following the flood. You see the Sumerian city of Uruk appear just north of this now flooded valley right after it would have flooded with the "first" written language, this culture appearing out of nowhere... supposedly.
It doesn't have to involve aliens at all. It just has to do with us getting the timelines and origins of various cultures wrong and having the essential archaeology to get it right obscured from discovery by lying at the bottom of the Gulf.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:48 am to LucasP
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So you're proposing that early man had this much understanding of engineering and architecture without help from aliens? That's a bit far fetched.
Have you ever played with blocks before?
My 4 year old builds pyramid like structures all the time, b/c it doesn't take a fricking genius to realize that you make a nice big base, and then slowly work your way up decreasing the size of each levels base until you get to the peak of your building. The bigger the base, the taller the structure.
My 4 year old understands this.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:49 am to Cooter Davenport
Ever heard of Occam's Razor? The simplest solution is always the correct one. What's more complicated, that convoluted mess you just typed out or aliens?
With all this evidence, denying ancient aliens is just self delusion at this point.
With all this evidence, denying ancient aliens is just self delusion at this point.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:50 am to rebeloke
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Rebeloke
Why did YOU have to be the one to post this? There have been some very good aliens discussions on the OT, but anything YOU post is immediately dismissed as hot garbage bc you suck. Stop posting
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:51 am to TeddyPadillac
How did they make the cuts and transport the rocks. Some of the cuts defy explanation.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:55 am to LucasP
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Ever heard of Occam's Razor? The simplest solution is always the correct one. What's more complicated, that convoluted mess you just typed out or aliens?
With all this evidence, denying ancient aliens is just self delusion at this point.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:57 am to rebeloke
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Some of the cuts defy explanation.
No, they don't.
Your personal incredulity notwithstanding, that is...
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:02 am to rebeloke
Step 1: chisel crack
Step 2: insert dry wooden wedge into chisseled crack
Step 3: wet wood and wait
Step 4: wood cracks rock as it expands leading to near perfect flat planed sides
Step 5: finish with chisels to make absolutely perfect
Step 6: use pullies and massive frickton of slaves to load blocks on canal barges and raft to building site.
Step 7: use massive frickton of slaves to offload blocks from barges onto wooden rollers and pull up ramps to installation location.
Step 8: fit stones into place
Step 2: insert dry wooden wedge into chisseled crack
Step 3: wet wood and wait
Step 4: wood cracks rock as it expands leading to near perfect flat planed sides
Step 5: finish with chisels to make absolutely perfect
Step 6: use pullies and massive frickton of slaves to load blocks on canal barges and raft to building site.
Step 7: use massive frickton of slaves to offload blocks from barges onto wooden rollers and pull up ramps to installation location.
Step 8: fit stones into place
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:11 am to kingbob
Some of y'all might like this : Atlantis is Real
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:14 am to rebeloke
Martians like boobs too!
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:15 am to Upperdecker
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:19 am to LucasP
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Architectually speaking, pyramids are the most stable shape a building can be. Early man had no means of supporting buildings via tension, only compression. They are pure compression. Thus, the simplest, easiest, longest lasting shape early man could build.
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So you're proposing that early man had this much understanding of engineering and architecture without help from aliens? That's a bit far fetched.
So Hasbro didn't come up with "weebles wobble, but they don't fall down"? Color me shocked.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:26 am to rebeloke
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How did they make the cuts and transport the rocks. Some of the cuts defy explanation.
no they don't.
How did they carve statues 2,500 years ago? Are all the statues from ancient Greece made by aliens?
You don't have to be a genius to understand the basics of physics. Like i said, my 4 year old son recognizes how to build a more stable structure by making a pyramid like structure with his blocks.
I helped build a log cabin from scratch. We didn't have a means to move the large logs that were sometimes a quarter mile away from our cabin site through the swamp. We simply used our brains and muscles efficiently. lift the big log up (sometimes using a lever to help), put some smaller logs under it, roll it across the smaller logs while taking the last log and bringing it to the front. We got 4 logs that weighed probably close to 1500lbs 15ft in the air using our muscles, levers, and blocks. We were as primitive as could be and rarely used modern tools for all of this. The only modern tool we used was a chainsaw, and nails and a hammer, if you want to call nails and hammer modern.
Like i tell my kid, which i stole from Stewie, "whether you think you can or can't, you're right"
You seem to think we can't.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:29 am to TeddyPadillac
do you even ancient aliens bro?
This post was edited on 2/10/16 at 10:34 am
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:32 am to rebeloke
Check mate, suck on that truth deniers.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:35 am to TeddyPadillac
Think about all of the things that ancient aliens could have given us. Blue jeans and tee shirts would have been nice, but no, they had to give us fricking pyramids.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:41 am to Allyn McKeen
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they had to give us fricking pyramids.
Megalithic structures impart a sense of awe and a relative sense of insignificance in the face of culture at large. Not the worst thing to have.
Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:48 am to Allyn McKeen
The Nazca Lines in Peru, the Solway Firth Spaceman & Puma Punku are very intriguing to me.
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