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[scriver]

Nice to see nobility still being the best of us

[delphonso]

I liked a point someone made that since usually only nonwhite cultures have their accomplishments credited to aliens, taking the claims at face value could imply that aliens are racist towards white people.

I heard this echoed on Two Best Friends Play on Youtube some time ago. I have stolen the joke that follows from them:

"White people showed up to Egypt and they looked at the pyramids then looked at all the brown people and were like, -shrug- must have been aliens!"

[Reelya]

Erich Von Daniken wrote of the Easter Island heads being carved by aliens using lasers and transported using anti-gravity sleds, because clearly a bunch of primitive humans couldn't work out how to move some heavy rocks.

But he had to explain away the fact that the area where the statues were quarried is full of stone axes, literally thousands of worn-out stone axes. So what he said was that after the aliens left, the natives tried to emulate what the aliens had done, but after realizing it was futile they threw their stone tools down in disgust, which is why they litter the ground.

[ChairmanPoo]

I liked a point someone made that since usually only nonwhite cultures have their accomplishments credited to aliens, taking the claims at face value could imply that aliens are racist towards white people.

Its not just nonwhite. I think it correlates more with little presence in pop culture. For instance Stonhenge was built by presumably white people but since the origins are murky it is enough for alien conspiranoics.

Likewise, most these folks know jackshit about the Maya so they claim them for their alien shtick, whereas conversely none of them claim the Colosseum was built by aliens, despite being contemporary to the former, because they are rather familiar with the history of the Roman Empire.

Likewise with the Egyptians: we have lots of records (including a drawing on how pyramids were built) but the average viewer of the ancient aliens dude knows next to none about any of this.

So tl,dr obscurity helps, but it doesnt matter as much whether they had no records as whether the average watcher of the series knows about them

[Reelya]

Yeah, there's even a clear evolution of pyramid design. First the had burial slabs. Then they realized you could just build smaller burial slabs on top of other burial slabs for a stepped pyramid. Then they filled in the gaps. Then they gradually built steeper/taller ones. Nowhere is this clearer than the three pyramids during the reign pf Sneferu (a stepped one, a bent one that was too steep that was hastily capped off because it became unstable, then a shallow one), which show a clear amount of bollocking it up before they got it right:
https://www.timetrips.co.uk/pyramids-factssneferu.htm

You don't see this thing in many conspiracy videos:

[scriver]

Sneferu'd beyond all repair

[MrRoboto75]

Imagine getting visited by advanced aliens and the only cool technology they bless you with is how to stack rocks really well so they don't fall down.

[Dunamisdeos]

If you think about it this is the basis of all human architecture, so with some creative interpretation that could be some cool shit.

PTW

[Naturegirl1999]

PTW

[Cthulhu]

I mean they gave us the ability to stack rocks up and now we live in a nightmare world, if they'd given us anything fancier we'd probably be extinct.

[dragdeler]

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[MrRoboto75]

I mean they gave us the ability to stack rocks up and now we live in a nightmare world, if they'd given us anything fancier we'd probably be extinct.

We say we're smarter than dolphins but they didn't invent employment and taxes so

[dragdeler]

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[delphonso]

If dolphins are so smart why don't they have computer games? Checkmate, marine biologists.

[Dunamisdeos]

If marine biologists are so smart why don't they go to boot camp like the other marines? Checkmate, US Armed Forces.