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This ancient aliens nuttery has been around since the 1950s, with books by Erich Von Daniken and Immanuel Velikovsky. Much of their "proof" can be easily refuted by anyone with a basic understanding of science.
Carl Sagan did an amazing point-by-point counter of Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision" in his book "Brocas Brain"
Also, there's some sources of Erich Von Daniken book that is just nazi propaganda masked as "research".
Never understood the whole conspiracy angle on the pyramids. When I was in school we always learned that the fascination with the pyramids wasn't just with the labor, engineering and man power required but with the division of labor, the social command and the economic planning required.
Remember that the pyramids have no direct tangible return on investment and were multi generation endeavors. So the question encroaching a contemporary observer is: ¿What must the structure of a society look like that produces such monuments?
Never understood the whole conspiracy angle on the pyramids.
Racism. Every stupid conspiracy involving ancient civilizations is always rooted in some sort of racism. "Egyptians aren't white, so they clearly couldn't have done something so big by themselves!!!" - "The Mayan nobility is depicted as having weird shaped heads, thus it was aliens that taught them how to make those great pyramids!"
Fascinating article
Once upon a time I had a whole conversation with a guy about whether the pyramids were made by aliens. He had an issue with the size of the blocks, so I explained how it was likely done-
His gotcha response - where did they get the rope? So I had to explain that ropes have existed much longer than nylon.
Block is slowly driven up a very long, gradual ramp to the work site, where it is wedged into place.
Sometimes they like to complain about the length of such a ramp being unreasonable, but then they don't think about it, even for a second:
Someone who thinks rope is a recent invention needs to, in the most literal sense, go touch some tall grass. If he can't figure it out from there, it's time to book an appointment at the neurologist's.
I was under the impression that they put the blocks on boats and floated them down the Nile to the correct location. If that's not what they did, that's what they should have done. Would be way easier than manually pulling the blocks
Yeah actually just last year some researchers found an ancient branch of the Nile running through the giza plateau which explains the location of a lot of monuments:
This reminds me of an episode of Unsolved Mysteries about pets. A woman was rescued from drowning by her dog, and they went on to interview a bunch of fakers like psychics and such and spent a bunch of time theorizing that maybe the dog was some reincarnated family member or that it had some amazing magical mental connection to her.
Then they had a biologist on for like 20 seconds who was like, there's no magic here, the dog (a Neufoundland) did exactly what it was bred to do - pull people out of the water. Which IMO is just as fucking interesting as Fluffy being psychic but that's just me.
Of course they quickly made sure to have Bob jump in and cast doubt on all that sciency BS before signing off on that segment. And while typing this it occurred to me that this sort of preying on superstition and ignorance explains a lot about why we are in the mess we're in right now.
Neat! My mom's golden retriever used to try to "save" people from swimming in a pool by jumping directly on top of them, we had to train her to stop.
Divisible by pi in what units? Surely not meters, they weren't in use back then.
Any unit since pi is a ratio of radius to circumference(π=C/𝒅). That's the point of the image - if you measured using circles, EVERYTHING would be a ratio of pi in some way you could discern.
The post refers to d = C/π turning out to be an integer. Therefore, what unit did they measure C in?
Why are you bringing the speed of light into this? Also, d is 6 inches.
🤓🤫errmmm akshuallly speed of light is almost always lowercase c
Gave me a chuckle.
No, it does not say integer. It says "all the sides being divisible by pi" aka "a ratio of pi"
That is not what divisibility commonly refers to. In the normal context, one number is divisible by another if the division yields an integer. 4 is said to be divisible by 2 but not by 3.
With your definition:
It would not make sense to say something is "perfectly" divisible. Duh, everything is divisible by everything except zero.
It would not be surprising that the length of the piramid is divisible by pi. Duh, everything is divisible by everything except zero.
The response to that statement would not need to mention circles at all. Duh, everything is divisible by everything except zero.
Look, if you don't understand math just say so.
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probably that one of the sides was a * n * pi long and the other was b * n * pi where a and b are integers and n is whatever unit they were using
It is a pyramid. The sides are supposed to be of the same length.
And then you can always define an arbitrary unit of measurement that will get you an integer number when multiplied by pi.
Historical measurement units were all over the place, so it is really easy to find a plausible value that gives you whole numbers.
That could still be any number n: 1.4337 or 128.382 or 0.001848. It does not make sense.
It does not make sense.
Uh... are you expecting them to?
Pi is just kinda like that. It pops up everywhere if you look hard enough for it.
If ancient aliens types had paid attention to math past middle school, they’d shit themselves with how much e shows up.
How hard I gotta look? Kinda hungy rn.
tiered looking palaeontologist
Suspicious at best. Pyramids are in on the conspiracy.
Anything is divisible by pi if you approximate hard enough
But everyone knows the pyramid was invented before the wheel, duh.
/s
Why /s?
The Dynastic egyptians didn't know about the wheel...
Native americans built pyramids yet never invented the wheel!
/s?
But just in case: Indigenous Americans had wheels pre-1490s, just not wheels on vehicles... Toys had wheels, and probably some measuring devices.
everyone forgot about circles.
Holy crop! Ancient egyptians would never have had the tools to produce something like this.
The show was a good entertainment with some amount of exposition to historic artifacts and construction and cultural remains still present..
Also the host's hair was nice.
Is the flat earth round or a triangle?
Not with that attitude
So that it matches the circumference of the earth almost exactly?
Lucky guess.
That Occam guy may have been on to something...
He only was selling shaving supplies.