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> As long as it’s not damaging anything And who decides that? The people receiving ad money for producing entertaining content that people want to watch? The a

• Alex3917 8y ago
  The Egyptian antiquities authority would obviously need to do the excavations themselves or oversee them, I’m just saying the process could be democratized a little. There are hundreds of square miles of sites, letting armchair archeologists vote on what should be looked at isn’t going to break anything.
  • njharman 8y ago
    > isn’t going to break anything Boaty McBoatface would disagree.
  • beaconstudios 8y ago
    why would you want to democratise a process that benefits highly from expert knowledge? The last thing the world needs is Jake Paul directing archaeologists to dig in the middle of a desert that was never inhabited.
    • Alex3917 8y ago
      > why would you want to democratise a process that benefits highly from expert knowledge? To get more tourist dollars. Think of it as a loss leader. You allocate 0.1% of your archeology budget to humor the amateur Egyptologist YouTubers with the most subscribers, and then engages a whole new generation who then want to visit for themselves. If the guy who runs the Ancient Architects YouTube channel thinks there might be a secret entrance to the pyramid behind a specific stone, fly him out and let him go up there and check it out. It's not like the whole thing is going to fall over if he runs some tests on it or tries to see if one of the stones is movable, people have been climbing it for thousands of years.