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sour, in Humanities be like
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klein bottle is a number

GBU_28, in aLiEnS!!1

It’s fair to imagine the challenges a building team would face 2k plus years ago.

Like in this example, building levers that are strong enough to lift the load. I bet they broke a bunch of stuff.

But eventually they figured it out, via trial and error. Levers, ramps, etc. They probably couldn’t describe why those things were inherently the best way, but more approached from the “we tried 9 other ways and they suck. This is the best way.”

Next, the phrase “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” is relevant here, but in a backwards way.

Since we struggle to imagine what it would take for an ancient society to master the techniques to build these things, we therefore begin to grasp for unrealistic conclusions (magic…read…aliens).

Same goes for Europeans building cathedrals and stuff, the trick is the history, the methods and the results were more documented and understood.

There are some racism concerns that I think go beyond and around what I’ve discussed, which is more abstract. I’m not discounting the other topics, just not covering them here.

IHadTwoCows,

One thing is for sure: you can’t leverage those stones with a primed FJ 1x6 from Lowe’s. I’ll bet they went through quite a few of those!

NattyNatty2x4,

Lowe’s definitely made lots of USD getting the pharaohs to think the pyramids were a good idea

intensely_human,

Now what were you thinking about a backsplash here?

crimroy, in the best feeling

When you’re folding laundry and the bottom 1/3 of the laundry basket is towels

averyminya, in aLiEnS!!1

Friendly reminder the Mayans had a highway

anzich, in aLiEnS!!1

Pretty sure the Egyptians were smart enough. But the European cathedrals cannot be explained w/o aliens

TwinTusks,

Great Wall of China? Come-on, no body can do that. And its not aliens, its GOD, who show favors protecting his favorite people, the Chinese.

psud,

Not to mention the Chrysler tower. Def aliens

Kolanaki, in 1.1 History
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Time go forward, no go back.

What hard to understand? /s

ornery_chemist, (edited ) in the best feeling

inb4 Gaussian 16 complete citation

jol, in aLiEnS!!1

Actually I was listening to a podcast that explains this. They didn’t have levers yet. They did have other devices but no lever.

nohaybanda,

I think the lever here is a stand-in for mechanical advantage. I don’t believe anyone is seriously proposing they lifted the blocks with a very long stick.

GreenTeaRedFlag,

you can’t just not have levers.

intensely_human,

It was before levers

jol,

Lol of course you can. They were invented at one point. And before that point… You didn’t have them. I recommend: Let’s Learn Everything episode 49: Goosebumps, (Not) Alien Pyramids, and Nessie & Cryptids.

Podcast webpage: www.LetsLearnEverythingPod.com

Epicurus0319, in aLiEnS!!1

Nah, we all know the Great Pyramids were part of the “Giza Mass Autism Array” fired during the Finno-Korean Hyperwar. RIP Finnish social skills

reverendsteveii,

were part of the “Giza Mass Autism Array”

*will be part of

remember that the Finno-Korean Hyperwar is going to have been the war where we first learn how to manipulate chronodirectionality.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, in Humanities be like

data: NaN

data: 1

NaN is 0

paradiso, in Having fun with probability models

I’m honestly surprised to still be seeing this flat earth nonsense. I figured it would’ve fizzled out by now.

sparky678348,

In 99% of cases it’s not literally believed, but argued for the sport of debate

There’s something interesting about trying to come up with fake science to support the bullshit, and that’s all it’s ever been except for fringe cases

RandomVideos, (edited ) in aLiEnS!!1

A couple years ago my chemistry teacher told my class that the Egyptians had really advanced technology (technology even more advanced than our own) thousands of years ago but it all got lost because they started a nuclear war

Edit: she told us that the evidence was that there were smartphone paintings

Adkml,

Great filter theory bit it already happened and nobody noticed.

xilliah,

She must go to some good parties.

DefinitelyNotAPhone,
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Famously impossible thing to detect in historical records: massive amounts of uranium-235.

fossilesque,
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Sounds like he was sneaking sniffs in the flammable cabinet a little too often.

Kidplayer_666, in Thank you plastics :)

Anyone can explain to a commoner?

mtchristo, in aLiEnS!!1

Now find sticks or stick assembly strong enough to lift a few tones of stone without breaking at the rotation center

spikespaz,

There is no guarantee that the lever would break in any position as particular as the pivot point.

oatscoop, (edited )

Here you go.

I’m not saying those are the exact techniques that were used to build the pyramids, but they demonstrate that massive stones can be easily lifted and accurately placed using only “primitive” resources and leverage.

SoyViking, (edited ) in aLiEnS!!1
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Me, looking at the meme: I wonder what happened to that giant pole they put on top of the pyramid to lift the giant weight?

intensely_human,

It became the Nile river.

Source: physics

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