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From what i have learned the technology to build the pyramids was actuall extremely low tech, and i dont mean slaves and chisles, i mean strings, honey, and tuning forks for the cutting of stone. For transportation they used vibrations to move the stone along magnetic lines in the earth.
Its not ancient high tech, its simply forgotten or suppressed low tech.
Huh. I though they used basic stone-working tools and the simple machines we learn about in elementary school -- just at a larger scale.
Weird.
How Roegan is so fucking stupid it blows my mind that people listen to a word that comes out of his stupid fucking mouth
There is no limit to the amazing shit you can do if you have power and ignore human suffering
While this is true, and there were definitely some people who suffered making the pyramids, many were just the most skilled artisans of their day. Egypt brain-drained the rest of the world for thousands of years by being the best of the best of the best.
It's amazing what you can do when you spend all that time attracting and cultivating that much ingenuity. In the course of human history, it's really only happened a handful of times. I read somewhere once that when you have that many intelligent people in a room you either build the pyramids or go to the Moon.
Yeah that's another way of looking at it. Excessive productivity creates a class that can live in leisure and luxury and experiment with new ideas, and that can lead to useful advances. Just like it's sometimes argued that war leads to technological advances.
And then God came and ruined it all just because of a little slavery!
I'm convinced the whole "they couldn't do this today" is subtle anti-modernity propaganda whether they are saying it about movies, or ancient megastructures. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of human progress, wrapped up in weird conservative anger about how it will never be 40(00) years ago again.
I think people have a misunderstanding in their heads that's distorted to the point of absurdity. My guess is he grew up like many Americans did hearing that "we don't know how the Pyramids were built" and took that at its face, like it was magic or scifi.
The truth is we didn't/don't how they built them 7000 years ago with their shitty technology and shitty math and no wheel. I'm oversimplifying of course, but I think that's appropriate.
I had a classmate that would tell me over and over how precisely the pyramids aligned with a set of stars at the time they were built, how we needed lasers to measure the imprecision, how we couldn't do the same thing today.
Eventually I found out that the imprecision was... a little over a foot, roughly 35 centimeters. That's the insane precision, the refined craftsmanship we can't produce today, getting the walls of a place within a foot of where we meant to put them.
Everyone that says this is either blindly repeating a thing they heard once, or has never seen a skyscraper, or a shopping mall, or the average parking lot outside a Walmart with that one area where all the rain water stays a few extra days, because it's 6 inches lower than the rest. THAT PARKING LOT IS STILL MORE PRECISE THAN THE PYRAMIDS, BRIAN.
He assumes everything is built only a foot high? I've built a few homes in my life and multiple barns and garages....you square the building to usually less than a 1/4"...not over a foot. Like the damn thing would fall down being that off.
No it's something about spatial alignment to heavenly bodies being a foot off, not a foot off level.