Very heavy Cunk On Earth vibes on this one.
clearly aliens
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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sushibowl@feddit.nl 6 months ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
i think the people saying its a mystery just didnt want to admit it was slave labour
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Nah, it’s just good old fashioned legacy colonial racism. www.sapiens.org/…/pseudoarchaeology-racism/
mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’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.
Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 6 months ago
But it wasn’t slave labour. It was constructed by highly skilled craftsman who seemingly enjoyed better living standards than their non-pyramid constructing equivalents.
Liz@midwest.social 6 months ago
They were paying their taxes to the state in labor, which is probably where the slavery misconception/interpretation comes from.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe that’s what they mean when they say we couldn’t build the pyramids with modern technology. Not nearly enough slaves.
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Except they weren’t built by slaves…
OpenStars@discuss.online 6 months ago
Don’t tell me what to do! :-P
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The 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!!!11one”
Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Opisek@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Love her humour. It’s impossible not to cringe while watching but at the same time it’s captivating.
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I remember watching this vut can’t remember where it’s from.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
These weren’t built in Egypt at all. They imported them overseas from the Mayans.
snugglebutt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Imagine the customs fee on that
niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 months ago
… who had licensed them from the Toltecs.
jaschen@lemm.ee 6 months ago
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?
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Secret trick no one knows to make your own pyramid
-Slaves
Hedlosa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
For most monuments, yea. But in building these all the workers had 3 monthish stints, were fully paid, and had lodgings near the worksite!
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t forget the beerbread, that’s what really sold it.
GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Common misconception, the pyramids were built by workers who got paid in beer and food, after the fields were planted and they had nothing but idle time. They even had the first strike in recorded history
BossDj@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You moron. Build it from the top down, then just flip it over
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wouldn’t that be from the top up?
matterantimatter@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
You do build steel grain bins from the top, down, however
variants@possumpat.io 6 months ago
Maybe you do
modifier@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
This fact was knocking around my brain already and I suspect I have Destin Sandlin to thank for it.
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Found an Australian.
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Khufu’s Pyramid at Giza was a massive undertaking, requiring approximately two million stone blocks weighing an average of 2.5 tons to be set into place, five every minute during the first years of construction [1]
mfs didn’t even use wheels; they were just sliding those huge blocks up ramps! It is pretty amazing.
Was no one really smart enough to put wheels on the blocks? I guess it was probably an axle strength issue.
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Axel strength, and I think I’ve heard they likely used loose sand as “lubricant”. (Do not do this in other situations)
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 6 months ago
Graham Hancock has entered the chat.
letsgo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The Shard in London was built using a top-down approach www.architecturelab.net/…/the-shard/
deus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The ‘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.
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s amazing what you can achieve with…slaves.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Exactly. I was actually thinking of that.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It 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.
mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I 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 and maybe was lost.
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.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Also they probably packed in dirt to act as ramps, and shit loads of labor.
Glytch@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 6 months ago
But did the ancient Egyptians pump up the jam?
GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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 aliens.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Excuse me, they’re ‘job creators.’
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Damn Goa’uld.