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> The term is used largely by cryptozoologists, proponents of ancient astronaut theories, young Earth creationists, and paranormal enthusiasts.
by arbitrage 7y ago
> The term is used largely by cryptozoologists, proponents of ancient astronaut theories, young Earth creationists, and paranormal enthusiasts.
- JadeNB 7y agoWhat's the significance of this line?
- sfkdjf9j3j 7y agoIt's not a scientific concept, it's a term used by the aliens-built-the-pyramids crowd.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoSure, but that's the third sentence of the linked article. It was hardly necessary to call attention to it specifically.
- crooked-v 7y agoI don't see how the most common usage of the term isn't relevant to a page about it.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIt's redundant. Anyone who read enough of the page to understand what it is has read that sentence already. Starting a discussion about the silliness of the concept might have been interesting. Quoting the third sentence with no further comment is pointless.
- legohead 7y agoI think he's calling it out suggesting this shouldn't be posted on HN.
- optimalsolver 7y agoThe aliens didn't build the pyramids, they merely advised the human architects by, e.g., imparting knowledge of geometry and metallurgy.
- JJMcJ 7y agoWe see evidence of increasing ability to build larger and larger pyramids over time in Egypt. The construction method is pretty well known by now, big ramps of gravel to roll/push stones up. Gravel spread around, contruction times vs. number of people on site, well known. Another example a group of university students hauled a Stonehenge sized rock from a likely quarry to Stonehenge site in a couple of weeks. We forget what human labor can do.
- irrational 7y ago>We see evidence of increasing ability to build larger and larger pyramids over time in Egypt. That's not totally true, is it? The first pyramid was Djoser's pyramid in saqqara in about 2650BC. The first true pyramid was build around 2590BC (around 60 years later). The largest and greatest of the pyramids was built around 2570BC (only about 80 years after the first pyramid). Things really went downhill from there, but the Egyptian civilization lasted for another 3000 years.
- xenadu02 7y agoThe point is they clearly perfected their techniques over time. We have evidence of failures and mistakes too. There is nothing about the ancient pyramids that lies beyond human capability. There are plenty of videos on youtube of 1-4 people moving 15-ton stone blocks around. Occam's razor: the simplest explanation is humans built the pyramids and no aliens were involved.
- ianai 7y agoOT, but more and more I wonder how prevalent fossil fuels are. We wonder at just how frequent life occurs. But fossil fuels have basically catapulted us in energy production over a very short time.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoAnthropology is hardly driven by scientific proofs. While weird locations of objects work really as shoddy proof at best, there are some locations of some items that lend themselves to solid proof of real and drastic changes. Proof of human habitations around Antarctica and deep underwater come to mind.