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Is it at all possible they were built with advanced physics we know nothing about? What about spiritual technology? Buddhists and Hindus talk about “miracles”

Is it at all possible they were built with advanced physics we know nothing about? What about spiritual technology? Buddhists and Hindus talk about “miracles” often, so why couldn’t the Pyramids be one of those miracles? It really renders the discussion meaningless when you are trying to justify the impossible with wild theories and whatnot. No machine today can do what they did all that time ago and yet we still talk about it like there is a practical and logical answer to it.

Suppafly 2y ago
you forgot the /s unless you really are a wackjob.
- skilled 2y ago
  So there is a logical explanation as to how the pyramids were built?
  - buildbot 2y ago
    Slave labor and ramps. Just kidding, you and I both know that they are landing pads for Goa'uld starships so they probably used their tech. (Plus slaves).
    - msla 2y ago
      > Slave labor and ramps. Except not slaves. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-egyptian-pyramids-not-slaves https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-... > The best evidence suggests that pyramid workers were locals who were paid for their services and ate extremely well. We know this because archaeologists have found their tombs and other signs of the lives they lived.
  - 7thaccount 2y ago
    Just because we don't know whatever low tech methods were used doesn't make it magic. There's a video of a guy moving multiple ton bricks in his backyard easily using some rods to act as a conveyor built. It's not something we tend to think about anymore as we have much better options now. Given a little time though and people will figure out low tech solutions. Look up "wallywallington" on YouTube and see how trivial moving incredibly heavy things can be with simple leverage.
  - OfficeChad 2y ago
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  - Suppafly 2y ago
    We don't know all the details of their process, but there are a ton of viable ways to do it using their level of technology, I'm sure they used one of them.
pests 2y ago
> No machine today can do what they did all that time ago They definitely can, just no one wants to pay for it. We can build massive buildings, huge bridges, bore through mountains, dam hundreds of millions of liters of water. We can stack some heavy rocks on top of each other.
- skilled 2y ago
  I can’t recall the exact article right now, but I was under the impression that we can’t. Maybe it was an old one. On top of that, it’s my understanding that Giza pyramids were built with special cosmic alignment also. Again, I am only throwing “outlandish” ideas in the bucket. It’s a worthwhile discussion to have in my opinion. There are plenty of stories out there about certain places in the world being “consecrated”, so why not the pyramids?
  - lesuorac 2y ago
    Pyramids aren't even unique; plenty of civilizations [2] figured it out. The Giza Pyramids are aligned to the cardinal directions [1] which is something that is done(ish) fairly often nowendays. Muslims often have their houses point towards Mecca [3] which requires you to build a house at a specific cardinal direction after determining it. You're going to have to provide the special cosmic alignment, Wikipedia mentions Orion [4] as a theory and certainly we can build buildings today 3 in a diagonal line. We can definitely measure the location of the stars in Orion's constellation now better than before. But also keep in mind there are a gazillion stars in the galaxy, any 3 buildings are going to match up with some subset of them. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex#Astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex#Astronomy [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_pyramids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_pyramids [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_architecture#Qibla_orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_architecture#Qibla_ori... [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory
  - masklinn 2y ago
    > I was under the impression that we can’t. Pyramids are a pile of big rocks. They're pretty well fitted big rocks, but engineering and construction wise they've got nothing on a Burj Khalifa, or a Millau Viaduct (below which the Great Pyramid would fit handily), or a Three Gorges Dam. The Palace of the Parliament of Romania has a larger outer volume than the Great Pyramid, and is ~40% lighter, and is an actual building (so large it's mostly unused), and was built in just 13 years, by Romania, in the 80s. Hell, while the Memphis Pyramid and the Luxor Las Vegas are smaller than the Great Pyramid, they're mostly usable volume, not mostly rock. It's not that we can't build a pyramid, it's that if you have a few hundred mils lying around there are more useful and / or cooler things to build.
DoItToMe81 2y ago
You can make any part of the Pyramids with primitive hand tools. In fact, material scientists have, to prove a point. Quartz is harder than the stone used for them, and diorite can be used to to smooth quartz.

Suppafly 2y ago

you forgot the /s unless you really are a wackjob.

skilled 2y ago
So there is a logical explanation as to how the pyramids were built?
- buildbot 2y ago
  Slave labor and ramps. Just kidding, you and I both know that they are landing pads for Goa'uld starships so they probably used their tech. (Plus slaves).
  - msla 2y ago
    > Slave labor and ramps. Except not slaves. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-egyptian-pyramids-not-slaves https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-... > The best evidence suggests that pyramid workers were locals who were paid for their services and ate extremely well. We know this because archaeologists have found their tombs and other signs of the lives they lived.
- 7thaccount 2y ago
  Just because we don't know whatever low tech methods were used doesn't make it magic. There's a video of a guy moving multiple ton bricks in his backyard easily using some rods to act as a conveyor built. It's not something we tend to think about anymore as we have much better options now. Given a little time though and people will figure out low tech solutions. Look up "wallywallington" on YouTube and see how trivial moving incredibly heavy things can be with simple leverage.
- OfficeChad 2y ago
  [dead]
- Suppafly 2y ago
  We don't know all the details of their process, but there are a ton of viable ways to do it using their level of technology, I'm sure they used one of them.

pests 2y ago

> No machine today can do what they did all that time ago They definitely can, just no one wants to pay for it. We can build massive buildings, huge bridges, bore through mountains, dam hundreds of millions of liters of water. We can stack some heavy rocks on top of each other.

skilled 2y ago
I can’t recall the exact article right now, but I was under the impression that we can’t. Maybe it was an old one. On top of that, it’s my understanding that Giza pyramids were built with special cosmic alignment also. Again, I am only throwing “outlandish” ideas in the bucket. It’s a worthwhile discussion to have in my opinion. There are plenty of stories out there about certain places in the world being “consecrated”, so why not the pyramids?
- lesuorac 2y ago
  Pyramids aren't even unique; plenty of civilizations [2] figured it out. The Giza Pyramids are aligned to the cardinal directions [1] which is something that is done(ish) fairly often nowendays. Muslims often have their houses point towards Mecca [3] which requires you to build a house at a specific cardinal direction after determining it. You're going to have to provide the special cosmic alignment, Wikipedia mentions Orion [4] as a theory and certainly we can build buildings today 3 in a diagonal line. We can definitely measure the location of the stars in Orion's constellation now better than before. But also keep in mind there are a gazillion stars in the galaxy, any 3 buildings are going to match up with some subset of them. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex#Astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex#Astronomy [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_pyramids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_pyramids [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_architecture#Qibla_orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_architecture#Qibla_ori... [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory
- masklinn 2y ago
  > I was under the impression that we can’t. Pyramids are a pile of big rocks. They're pretty well fitted big rocks, but engineering and construction wise they've got nothing on a Burj Khalifa, or a Millau Viaduct (below which the Great Pyramid would fit handily), or a Three Gorges Dam. The Palace of the Parliament of Romania has a larger outer volume than the Great Pyramid, and is ~40% lighter, and is an actual building (so large it's mostly unused), and was built in just 13 years, by Romania, in the 80s. Hell, while the Memphis Pyramid and the Luxor Las Vegas are smaller than the Great Pyramid, they're mostly usable volume, not mostly rock. It's not that we can't build a pyramid, it's that if you have a few hundred mils lying around there are more useful and / or cooler things to build.

DoItToMe81 2y ago

You can make any part of the Pyramids with primitive hand tools. In fact, material scientists have, to prove a point. Quartz is harder than the stone used for them, and diorite can be used to to smooth quartz.