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I can sympathise and understand why people don't believe this is within human capabilities. Look at how fractured the government and political systems of the w
by sscaryterry 4mo ago
I can sympathise and understand why people don't believe this is within human capabilities.
Look at how fractured the government and political systems of the west have become. Humans forget. We've forgotten how to build pyramids, we've forgotten the second world war and the lessons learned.
- qsort 4mo ago"The government sucks therefore aliens built the pyramids" has to be the line of thinking I sympathize the least with in the entire span of human opinions.
- empath75 4mo ago> We've forgotten how to build pyramids. Luxor in Vegas is way more complicated than the egyptian pyramids were.
- Hikikomori 4mo agoThe bass pro pyramid store was built by aliens.
- boringg 4mo agoAre you for real?
- marshray 4mo agoThese are common false narratives pushed by "documentaries" on Netflix and cable television in the US.
- sscaryterry 4mo agoChrist, tongue-in-cheek?
- boringg 4mo agoTough to tell these days. I got seriously asked by someone from Egypt if I though the pyramids were built by humans or aliens. I stared at them in disbelief.
- jrmg 4mo agoModern construction firms would have no problem^ planning and building you a pyramid if you were willing to pay for it. ^ well, maybe some problems like any project, but they would overcome them.
- FLHerne 4mo agoSure, but no-one on Earth today is willing to pay for a pyramid - or anything like it - even with the convenience of modern construction. I have a similar feeling looking at the great cathedrals. These structures took up a huge proportion of the community's money, labour and talent, for decades on end. They're orders of magnitude bigger than any 'normal' building of the time or for centuries later. All with no prospect of any tangible return. If we set out now to build the largest structure that the limits of our technology allow, designed almost purely as a work of art with little regard to any function, what would that look like? I don't know, no-one's done it for centuries. The closest thing is the Eiffel Tower. It's a national icon, the wrought-iron equivalent of a pyramid - but it took two years to build, not twenty. What would an Eiffel Tower with 10x the resources look like? And that's more than a century ago. It's not hard to believe that humans could build these things, but it's occasionally hard to believe that they chose to.
- card_zero 4mo agoEiffel tower: 10,000 tons Great pyramid: 5 or 6 million tons So only around 500 times as much moving material around, feasible I guess. You might need a dedicated rail line built direct to the quarry. Funny to mention cathedrals considering that they finished one in Spain just recently. There's also Guédelon Castle in France, still being slowly built.
- marshray 4mo agoFor anyone interested in modern humans' ability to move material around when it is economically advantageous to do so, try a web image search for "largest open pit mines".
- crazygringo 4mo ago> We've forgotten how to build pyramids What exactly has led you to believe this...?
- sscaryterry 4mo agoTaking what I said literally :D
- crazygringo 4mo agoI see no indication in your comment that it was meant any other way :D
- iamflimflam1 4mo agoMany medieval Britons believed that Roman ruins were built by giants.
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- crooked-v 4mo agoThe Luxor Las Vegas was built in 1993. It even had a replica tomb for a while.
- gnoll_of_gozag 4mo agotheres a huge pyramid right now in memphis tenessee??