I need this mysterious "rock expanding" technology.
yeah, because the only way that brown people could have built anything impressive is if gods/aliens helped them.
Notice how these people never call into question the coliseum or the parthenon? It's just thinly veiled racism.
I like to remind people that the heaviest stones for the pyramids were about 400 tons while a few thousand years later in Lebanon the largest stones for the temple complex in Baalbek are about 1250 tons.
But no one questions that the construction there
I think many of the people who push this aren't overtly racist, but there is no question that the source of all of this, Madame Blavatsky, was just a racist.
I don't that's because of racism... The racism is that many people think Egyptians were white... Search for it online and you'll find many depictions where they at most have a light tan.
It is amazing to me how these people call the ancient Egyptians primitive.
Although they may be considered primitive by today's technological standards, they were very, very smart and accomplished tremendous things with very little resource.
They were not primitive intellectually. They were smart, capable and intelligent people.
Two more points I'd like to address about the cutting of these rocks number one archaeologists replicated the way these rocks would be cut with technology they would have during the time that these rocks were cut. Number two. They would drag the rocks. They dragged the rocks.
Oh, and constructions like the Great pyramids would often take generations to complete and these weren't done in a couple of years these things took decades if not more.
They had the exact same brains we do. Something people like this seem to not understand.
Although they may be considered primitive by today's technological standards, they were very, very smart and accomplished tremendous things with very little resource.
They were not primitive intellectually. They were smart, capable and intelligent people.
This is exactly the point many people don't understand: People in the past were not less intelligent than today's people.
We developed more ways to discover stuff and more precise tools to measure and detect things and of course with computers we got the ability to handle extremely complex data. All of this gives us an edge over past people science wise but we had very capable thinkers 200, 600 and 4000 years ago. All basic principles of mathematics have been developed a long time ago.
They also see something like an expertly-knapped flint hand axe and think "I could do that in my back yard in five minutes" because they don't understand that something that looks primitive might actually be a really useful tool and actually not easy to make.
This is why I have a hard time taking anyone seriously who calls any human society, past or present, "primitive."
The pithy version of that is that we know more things than our ancestors, but we're not smarter than them.
Also the current theory is, get ready for it...they used boats. They flooded the area the Pyramids were being built and just floated them in on barges. With water.
'Beyond human thinking' my ass.
They flooded the area the Pyramids were being built
I don't think that's "the current theory".
I think you might be talking about digging canals. It's conceivable that a canal would be built to take the rocks to the construction site. Just recently however we've found evidence of a tributary of the nile that flowed past the sites of a number of pyramids.
They weren't super smart, they simply had an infinite supply of slaves.
The "slaves built the Pyramids" thing has been pretty well-debunked by anthropologists and archaeologists, who both agree that something as monumental as building the vehicle of the Pharaoh's ascent to the afterlife would not have been something Egypt would've forced slaves to labor on. Aside from the obvious chances of revolt, there's a lot of religious reasons, and many agree that it was likely seen as a GREAT honor - backed up by inscriptions of the masons that worked the stone (found in some reliefs), or painters, etc. It's not unlikely that they used slave labor to quarry and transport the stones to the building site, but not to actually physically haul and build things AT the site.
People have said the same things about stonehenge
Funilly enough:
Cheddar Man: DNA shows early Briton had dark skin
Aliens just didn't like white people.
Ok, I'll go first... Who the fuck says 2 million and 300 thousand? Either say 2.3 million, or 2 300 000 or even two million and three hundred thousand. Fuck it, even two point three million would work. But 2 million and 300 thousand? You're the fucking alien dammit!
2 million as well as 300 thousand
probably the same people that use 13 hundred instead of 1300
Listen!
So you smell something?
where's the guy with the crazy hair
He couldn't make it as he had a prior reservation for an anal probing session
Are they free or do you need a coupon ?
Not only were humans not able to stack rocks, they didn't stack rocks in every continent that still stand to this day
How did the aliens manage to make that when they could have spent all their time on the internet, or watching movies, playing video games, porn, going to concerts, driving cars, taking flights on airplanes, etc whatever.
It's obvious humans could never make something as advanced as a giant ...rock.
Imagine how much more video games and porn you could consume if you just had two more arms and hands?
Ok fine. You just sold me on what's possible in the future.
I'm not so sure we have the brain capacity for putting one thing on top of another thing.
I don't believe that for one second.
But I'll be honest, I was thinking about cookies when I saw your reply.
What's going on?
I'm glad the size of bricks has been reduced. A wheelbarrow is useless here.
A wheelbarrow is useless here.
Just get a bigger wheelbarrow, easy.
Yeah, but they don’t pay you in beer now, so I’d call it a wash.
These people think we are all as stupid as them.
“wElL I cAn’T eXPlain tHis aND theSE prIMItIve brOwN fOlk sUreLY ain’t SmArtR tHen mE so it MuSt be aLeEyUns”
These people think they can travel back in time and are some kind of god.
Behold, i'm the man of the future. We have computers.
What's a computer? How do you make it?
Uuhm, get a rock and make him think, i don't know man.
I think I would do okay, but that's because I had a watch fascination when I was in school. Big thing that revolutionized navigation was stable clocks that could work on a boat. Depends on how far back you go really.
