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[TamerVirus]

When you talk about pyramids you gotta talk about ancient aliens.
Unless you're talking about mystical pyramid power.

[dragdeler]

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[McTraveller]

When you talk about pyramids you gotta talk about ancient aliens.
Unless you're talking about mystical pyramid power.

I'm sure there were some young aliens involved too.  Actually, probably much more likely that it was young aliens, screwing around with pre-industrial civilizations for shits & giggles (or whatever bodily functions and sounds are appropriate for such aliens).

[redwallzyl]

All is according to plan so far.

Next topic- monoliths and pyramids?

Ancient peoples were cleverer then we give them credit for.

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[Reelya]

All is according to plan so far.

Next topic- monoliths and pyramids?

Ancient peoples were cleverer then we give them credit for.

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That motivational poster is good, except the implication that slaves built the pyramids is believed to be unfounded. Herodotus spread the "slaves" story, but he lived around 2000 years after the big pyramid-building era. The "slaves built the pyramids" myth is a sort of ancient conspiracy theory

My view on them is that they represented an ancient version of the Works Progress Administration.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

Here, they uncovered evidence that lowly pyramid-builders who died were buried in tombs along with beer, bread and other items for the afterlife. Not something you do with expendable slaves.

One popular myth that Egyptologists say was perpetrated in part by Hollywood held that Israelite slaves built the pyramids.

Amihai Mazar, professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, says that myth stemmed from an erroneous claim by the former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, on a visit to Egypt in 1977, that Jews built the pyramids.

"No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn't exist at the period when the pyramids were built," Mazar said.

[redwallzyl]

I'm quite familiar with how the pyramids were build. I am probobly the GD forums expert on things archeological. I espicilly like how the work crews named themselves. "the Drunkards of Menkaure" for example appears on graffiti hidden on blocks. There are all kinds of things people spewing conspiracy like to omit.

like say this:

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You may notice that is the quarry for the stone of the pyramids. You will also notice you can see a pyramid from it. You may also notice the super obvious signs of hand quarrying.

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It's like they mined the materials from right next to the pyramids or something.

There is the massive settlement of workers right next to the pyramids as well.
http://www.aeraweb.org/projects/lost-city/
With big bakeries to feed all the workers as well.
http://www.aeraweb.org/lost-city-project/feeding-pyramid-workers/

As far as assertions of alignment crap go that people throw out.

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Kind of hard to build them anywhere else.



For people to even suggest that the pyramids were not built by humans is the height of idiocy and ignorance. You literally need to ignore all contradictory evidence and basic sense.

[Reelya]

They also need to ignore the evidence that the early Egyptians didn't just come up with pyramids overnight. A pyramid is just a stepped pyramid with the gaps filled in, and a stepped pyramid is only smaller slabs built on top of larger slabs.

There are also the clear mistakes that were made along the way. Sneferu was the first to make a true pyramid after the stepped pyramids, and it took him three attempts to make the design work, the broken one at Meidum, the bent one at Dahshur, then the much less ambitious Red Pyramid, which was the first "proper" pyramid.

There were even construction errors made on the Great Pyramid of Giza.

[scourge728]

I remember hearing there were some rocks they mined at some point that they had to like pick up eroded chunks to quarry or something, something about diamond tipped drills or some such

[redwallzyl]

I remember hearing there were some rocks they mined at some point that they had to like pick up eroded chunks to quarry or something, something about diamond tipped drills or some such

That sounds bunk. For harder rock like granite they used copper saws with sand to cut them.

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[Trekkin]

Now that the thread has slowed down, have a conspiracy theory I came up with while watching UFO "documentaries":

What if all the UFO stuff from Roswell on began as deliberate attempts to hide US experimental aircraft (including Project Mogul) and US observations of Russian aircraft from the public that then morphed into a deliberate attempt to falsify and hide secret, captivating, and ultimately harmless information that could not possibly originate anywhere else? That way, whenever it showed up out in the wild or in other countries' hands, it could be more confidently traced back to its source and serve as a way to find and exclude people unsuited to handle classified information. Suppose it then metastasized into a whole host of secret projects whose whole point was to be conspicuously secret, partly justify the defense budget, and let people feel special for knowing super-classified information that not even [insert important official here] knows?

There need be no extraterrestrials or physics-defying super technologies, just a lot of paranoid people deeply enjoying the ego trip they get from having a need-to-know secret the other guy doesn't need to know. While collectively an operation of significant size, it would inherently be compartmentalized to test compartmentalization (and because secrets are more impressive when fewer people know them), and of course no whistle-blower would have any concrete proof that the alleged proof did not exist.

So there you go: it's not that there are extraterrstrials and the government is lying to us, it's that there are no extraterrestrials and the government is confusedly, officially-unofficially, and pompously lying to itself for kicks.

[Doomblade187]

This ties into South Park's theory regarding 9/11 conspiracy theories: that the government didn't do it, but wants people to think they did, because it makes them look powerful.

[Hanslanda]

Makes more sense than hyperadvanced intelligent life traveling thousands of light years to rape people and murder cows.

[scourge728]

To be fair, presumably in such a scenario they didn't COME to do that, they just kinda ended up doing thing, like how armies for most of earth's history ended up doing that with defeated foes, except they haven't killed us yet

[Hanslanda]

Maybe aliens are wading through an intergalactic ocean of red tape bureaucratic claims before they can invade legally.

[Loud Whispers]

Makes more sense than hyperadvanced intelligent life traveling thousands of light years to rape people and murder cows.

I dunno. In a space society where ftl drives were owned by private individuals I could definitely see some ayy lmaos treating Earth like the cross between a formicarium and a brothel