Couldn't be made with todays technology? Interesting. Anyone got a direct quote or timestamp to the episode this claim was made in?
EDIT: Yeah so I did a little digging around and this seems to be from the Coleman Hughes episode and the specific claim he makes is: The stones used to form them (in Giza specifically) were 70 tons, which we currently don't have the technology to move the 100s of miles, through the mountains, they were moved back then.
So yeah. While I don't think that is correct either it still seems like the statement in the picture above is a misquote.
When you quote a person you're supposed to restate what they said word by word. If you editorialize it, then it's no longer a quote but your intrepretation of it.
That's not what a straw man is at all. Why do you hate dictionaries? Now that is a straw man.
Also, there's nothing inaccurate in the paraphrasing present. Joe made a claim that we don't have the technology today to build the pyramids because he thinks we couldn't get the quarried blocks out of the mountains. Removing the additional words after pyramids in that sentence doesn't change the ending, it just removes the explanation of why.
What you're doing is being pedantic, but poorly because you keep getting it wrong.
Nah, word for word reproductions are also extremely easy to take out of context. So no, I don't put much value on quotes, especially short ones on 4chan.
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You understand we can and have cut highways through mountains?
Building a Pyramid would be a tiny project compared to building a railway system. Completely trivial.
were 70 tons, which we currently don't have the technology to move the 100s of miles
Odd your comment seems to clearly show you claiming that we can’t move 70 ton blocks of sandstone despite having equipment that can carry over 5 times that weight.
That is the original claim Joe, not me, made in the podcast episode with Coleman Hughes. I even end my message saying that I don't think that is correct either.