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For people who don't believe Egyptians could build pyramids
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:40 am
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:40 am
with the technology available at the time. Spinoff from the other thread.
Does anybody here believe one man using stone and wood, can raise a 20 ton stone by himself?
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We don't give our ancestors enough credit.
Does anybody here believe one man using stone and wood, can raise a 20 ton stone by himself?
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We don't give our ancestors enough credit.
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Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:47 am to BayouBlitz
Yes, but also 
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:50 am to BayouBlitz
Psht everyone knows the great pyramids were really giant hydropower plants used to power the super advanced Egyptians until those upitty Indians used nukes to bring the world back to the Stone Age 
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:54 am to BayouBlitz
OP has clearly been probed. Doing their bidding
Posted on 1/28/24 at 10:57 am to BayouBlitz
Physics is amazing isn't it.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:01 am to BayouBlitz
Here’s my thoughts on this. We can’t figure out how they did it because as a society we devote zero time into building large stone structures. Where we do devote our resources (wooden frame homes, large steel buildings) you continue to see advances because we understand every aspect of the material being used and how to manipulate it on a very large scale. The same would be true of stone if it suddenly became the only source of building material available. The problem is that it takes virtually no time for technology to be lost. Think about WW2 aircraft for example, the tech to build those incredible machines is only 80 years old but impossible to reproduce because the machines that were used to create those planes no longer exists.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:01 am to BayouBlitz
No one questions who built the pyramids in Mexico. A crew of 15 probably built them in a month.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:02 am to BayouBlitz
quote:No rational person would suggest that this occurred 4,500 years ago.
Does anybody here believe one man using stone and wood, can raise a 20 ton stone by himself?
Fun Fact
The stone portion of Stonehenge happened around the same time as the Giza Pyramids were being built and the largest stone there is around 30 tons in weight.
I don’t suggest that one person raised it by himself either.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:07 am to LasVegasTiger
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No one questions who built the pyramids in Mexico. A crew of 15 probably built them in a month.
Built with local stones. Egypt’s stuff has stone quarried hundreds of miles to the north and hundreds of miles to the south
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:09 am to BayouBlitz
Humans have forgotten more than they've learned. Recording knowledge is fantastic, but there's no replacement for developing the skills to apply it.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:12 am to BayouBlitz
Explain the scoops
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:13 am to BayouBlitz
Our own kids can't read cursive and you expect us to remember how to build a pyramid. Pfft
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:14 am to BayouBlitz
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:16 am to BayouBlitz
This sort of thing will never really be showcased or taught because it shows less need for major equipment
Big money makers don’t like when there is less need for expensive equipment
Big money makers don’t like when there is less need for expensive equipment
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:16 am to redstick13
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Our own kids can't read cursive and you expect us to remember how to build a pyramid. Pfft
Indeed. Passing on knowledge is more than handing a kid a book. It is showing them how to swing a hammer or understanding the grain of wood and how it interacts with the tools. Perfecting something as "simple" as woodworking seems intuitive, but there's a lot of minutiae and nuance in the application of knowledge.
The internet has created a lot of "experts" that don't really know shite.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:17 am to BayouBlitz
Its what is inside the pyramids that makes me doubt
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:19 am to BayouBlitz
It is hard to fathom the scale of the Giza pyramids until you’ve been in and on them.
I’ve no definitive answer as to how they were built but I do think they came first and the others in the Nile area were attempts to copy them.
I’ve no definitive answer as to how they were built but I do think they came first and the others in the Nile area were attempts to copy them.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:22 am to Bullfrog
The burning of the Great Library of Alexandria probably set our civilization back a few centuries. It probably was the single most consequential event in history that not many people know about.
This post was edited on 1/28/24 at 11:33 am
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:24 am to Bullfrog
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I do think they came first and the others in the Nile area were attempts to copy them.
Why?Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:24 am to BayouBlitz
So much of human history was lost by damage, languages dying off, or just not being written down. It's asinine to think that the ancients didn't have their forms of technology. I can see the arguments that aliens possibly jump started some of that tech as well.
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