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I think the one thing everyone (even the crazies and the hitlers) agrees on is that the "Great" pyramid is really interesting. Like, it's a man-made* structure that's been around for long enough that it was ancient even in ancient times, and we still don't know everything there is to know about it. *) Here the crazies and the hitlers may disagree
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Hammy posted:building a pyramid is gonna draw resources and skills from across the entire social hierarchy so trying to figure out what class of egyptians were the true builders doesn't make a lot of sense. like the farmers that fed the builders and made the beer weren't getting paid poo poo. The dudes making mud bricks for the support structures probably don't get paid much either. the quarriers and stone movers probably got a bit more and on up the chain until you get to the architect who is top nobility. If the architect was top nobility there’d have been a high chance he was some horrible failson so you’d expect some disastrous pyramid projects.
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Orange Devil posted:If the architect was top nobility there’d have been a high chance he was some horrible failson so you’d expect some disastrous pyramid projects. Theyr meant to be cubes
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Until Linda Moulton Howe rises again from the dead, we will never truly know how the pyramids were built. At some point last year I definitely saw news of her death. Then the new season of Ancient Aliens premiered and she's still somehow alive. Could've sworn covid got her last summer.
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PostNouveau posted:Just get a bunch of people to push the stones up ramps, I dunno what's so mysterious there this is really neat but there’s no evidence of paved roads or platforms at Stonehenge afaik. I’d like to see if you could replicate it with wooden platforms
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Orange Devil posted:If the architect was top nobility there’d have been a high chance he was some horrible failson so you’d expect some disastrous pyramid projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid
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indigi posted:this is really neat but there’s no evidence of paved roads or platforms at Stonehenge afaik. I’d like to see if you could replicate it with wooden platforms also stonehenge has those stones across the tops of two other stones which wouldn't be easy with that jack system
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Stonehenge is a work of sasquatch. 
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indigi posted:this is really neat but there’s no evidence of paved roads or platforms at Stonehenge afaik. I’d like to see if you could replicate it with wooden platforms There is evidence of a multiple henge system of monuments. Woodhenge was discovered in 1929. Other circles and other kinds of roads and paths between them and the river and burial mounds have been found as well. They did some experiments and were able to use teams of people to manipulate blocks like that with logs in various ways, seems pretty doable.
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How come no one who was an English lord or Egyptian nobility in a past life is able to come forward and just tell us how it was done, huh??
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I learned everything I need to know about the pyramids by playing Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition. They didn't pay government workers with money, they used bread. Bread! Breaditalism.
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you need deracinated peeps wanderin around without records to need to spend the vast amounts of gold and poo poo to need a monetary system denominated in coins and poo poo. nah, the god king takes care of everyone they took the gold saved from that and put it on poo poo
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please knock Mom! posted:i lost it 
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Not really Davies' style, but I am getting tired of waiting for series 12 to start. Your time starts.... Now.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I think the one thing everyone (even the crazies and the hitlers) agrees on is that the "Great" pyramid is really interesting. Like, it's a man-made* structure that's been around for long enough that it was ancient even in ancient times, and we still don't know everything there is to know about it. Absolutely, it's so impressive and mysterious. It's very inspiring I actually think people do human beings a disservice when they just give the credit to aliens. Humans can do loving amazing poo poo!
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All the monuments ever are just furniture made by that generations B. S. Johnson.
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According to legend, stonehenge was built in Ireland, but Merlin told the British to steal it from them.
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Funny thing: the smaller bluestone were originally from a henge in Wales, and were moved to Salisbury and re-erected in pretty much the exact same orientation. Then like 500 years later the big sandstone blocks were made and the whole henge was rearranged to focus on them.
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Re-erected? I barely know Ed!
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Weatherman posted:How come no one who was an English lord or Egyptian nobility in a past life is able to come forward and just tell us how it was done, huh?? they have, havent you watched "ancient aliens"?
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I hope Red Lobster found out about it somehow because I'm sure they love their seafood restaurant being advertised in front of videos on how seafood can kill you if you don't act quickly.
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FFT posted:it's really old wow do u want me to delete my post
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500 good dogs posted:wow do u want me to delete my post Yes
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Monthly Vancouver real estate update. Just some student selling his house for $40 million, nothing to see here https://twitter.com/mortimer_1/status/1427359371218997255?s=19
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Monthly Vancouver real estate update. Just some student selling his house for $40 million, nothing to see here At least that's a proper rich fucker house and not like, a 2 bedroom on a quarter acre or whatever.
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500 good dogs posted:wow do u want me to delete my post ur account too plz tia
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The Bloop posted:Absolutely, it's so impressive and mysterious. It's very inspiring Sounds like you're giving the aliens a disservice.
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The Bloop posted:Absolutely, it's so impressive and mysterious. It's very inspiring That's exactly why they do it. Saying that aliens did everything impressive assuages their feelings of inadequacy from knowing they haven't done and can't do poo poo.
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https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1427375128757821440 3 grand to look wet lol
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Shame Boy posted:At least that's a proper rich fucker house and not like, a 2 bedroom on a quarter acre or whatever. Yeah it's arguably the nicest area. My dad bought his first house in Point Grey for $25,000 in the 70s. Good to see students can still afford to live there on their uber eats salary or whatever.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Yeah it's arguably the nicest area. My dad bought his first house in Point Grey for $25,000 in the 70s. Right, that Chen guy just has a lot of hustle! Does Uber Eats on nights, picks up handyman jobs on the weekends, mows lawns over the summers.
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Fame Douglas posted:We still don't know how the pyramids were built, that's the origin of "ancient aliens" theories and why they're less popular about other antique societies, not just Rome. No need to jump to racism as the universal explanation for everything. Internal ramp 10 feet within the outer walls. Failed Imagineer posted:It was slaves OP Nah, we have the attendance logs. It was a massive public works project to keep the citizenry employed during the non-farming seasons.
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HootTheOwl posted:Internal ramp 10 feet within the outer walls. On the one hand sure they were paid and all, on the other hand you can't exactly say no when the god-emperor orders you to construct his death castle.
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HootTheOwl posted:Nah, we have the attendance logs. It was a massive public works project to keep the citizenry employed during the non-farming seasons. Glad to see my policy of "if there's too many idlers add another few layers of walls" works IRL as well as dwarf fortress
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SniperWoreConverse posted:There is evidence of a multiple henge system of monuments. Woodhenge was discovered in 1929. Other circles and other kinds of roads and paths between them and the river and burial mounds have been found as well. Last year, or this year, there was some research that Stonehenge was actually looted from somewhere in Ireland. Like, taken and moved. Putting rocks on top of other rocks seems easy enough in comparison. Although the research also acknowledged that there was previous research concluding that, and also that folk tales said that forever so none of it was news to the researchers, or to Irish people I guess. Edit: Oops, beaten on the legend part. But yeah there was also actual research concluding that based on some sort of analysis of the rocks. I believe they found exactly matching rocks in a site; bits the English didn't bother to take. Zeppelin Insanity has issued a correction as of 16:18 on Aug 17, 2021 |
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Yeah, it's actually a clever ploy to keep everyone busy while the country is flooded. Who knows what crazy things the workers/farmers would get up to otherwise? They might even think about the system of governance and conclude that they did the work while the self proclaimed god king did the public masturbation. And that could threaten stability. Also the concept of freedom and slavery was a lot less clear in that time. It's not like being an Egyptian "citizen" gave you freedoms and human rights.
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