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Hancock has been publishing since 1990s. If someone was publishing made-up theories in my professional field for thirty years (and becoming a globally known ce
by yongjik 4y ago
Hancock has been publishing since 1990s. If someone was publishing made-up theories in my professional field for thirty years (and becoming a globally known celebrity, sort of), then I'd also be pretty cranky about that.
- nradov 4y agoAll hypotheses are initially made up to an extent. Can you point out specific ways that Hancock's main hypotheses fail to match the available evidence? His claims are falsifiable, so people who care can go ahead and do the science to falsify them. Whether Hancock is a celebrity is neither here nor there. Proper science is supposed to be above personal attacks.
- Hikikomori 4y agoYou usually start with an observation, Hancock starts with the conclusion and works backwards.
- nradov 4y agoThat seems like a deflection. What specifically in Hancock's interpretation does not align with the known facts? I don't particularly care about him one way or another, but if you want to criticize him then please present some actual evidence.
- kodyo 4y agoThat's a lie that sounds smart.
- spaceman_2020 4y agoI’ve watched enough of Hancock to know that he starts with an observation: xyz physical structure doesn’t align with our accepted view of history, and then tries to find a conclusion.
- sintaxi 4y agoYou should be more angry if people within your professional field still claim the pyramids were built as tombs by people wearing sandals and loincloths with bronze and copper tools.
- Hikikomori 4y agoWhat were they built with then?
- zozbot234 4y agoSome people think they were built by slaves, and were intended for storing grain.
- whatshisface 4y agoIf they were intended for storing grain they did a pretty bad job making space for it...
- sintaxi 4y agoWe don't know.
- jhbadger 4y agoWe absolutely know they were tombs. We can read Ancient Egyptian you know. There are texts on the walls dealing with how the person entombed there will deal with being judged in the afterlife. The idea that that the pyramids were mysterious in purpose only made sense prior to the mid 19th century before we could read the hieroglyphs.
- moloch-hai 4y agoThere are, in fact, no such inscriptions in any of the Giza pyramids, and no remnant of funerary apparatus was found in any of them, never mind a mummy. (Other looted Egyptian crypts were found full of trash; looters don't clean up after themselves.) The only writing found inside was not funerary. There are funerary temples lousy with inscriptions outside, but anybody can build those anytime. Crypts elsewhere are scribbled throughout. We still know very little about the pyramids, so cannot contradict speculation. The official story / timeline is just one such.