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submitted 1 year ago by Schnitzel_bub@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

They landed, said "let's build some huge triangles for shits and giggles" and then they fucked off.

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[-] bastian_5@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago

3000 years ago they were already 1000 years old.

[-] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 51 points 1 year ago

This is a repost from a 1000 years ago.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago

This was around the time the Memeluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, yeah?

[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Now they only visit occasionally for surprise proctology exams.

[-] Schnitzel_bub@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're only checking if our civilization is still at the talking-out-of-our-asses stage.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"it's a little warm for October" - aliens probably

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The "great wonders" of this world typically derive from some form of slavery/exploitation.

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Skilled paid stonemasons were required to build the tight fitting surface stones of this one, so some of the laborers were definitely not slaves, howeveri believe you're correct I doubt the sled drag team was salary.

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why can't you have skilled slaves?

[-] RaineV1@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

By all accounts the builders of the pyramids actually had nice places to live, and a higher quality of life than most Egyptians. In truth there is literally no evidence they were slaves outside of the story of Moses.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

In truth there is literally no evidence they were slaves outside of the story of Moses.

Of course there's no evidence. It happened more than 4000 years ago and there aren't many writings left. No evidence doesn't mean it didn't happen.

[-] RaineV1@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, going the George Bush route that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. So, let me tell you about the unicorns on Mars. What, you can't prove they're not there.

Seriously though, we do have quite a few records from then since the Egyptian kings really wanted people to know about them. We also have archeological finds of where the workers lived. Also in them being given lavish tombs that regular Egyptians at the time didn't. This stuff is really not hard to look up.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No evidence doesn't mean it didn't happen.

that's what I tell about my homies about me having had sex.

[-] unnecessarygoat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

maybe it wasn't worth teaching slaves how to properly build the pyramids and it was easier to get already educated citizens to build them

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago
[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago
[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

+1 for Star Gate reference!

[-] Schnitzel_bub@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] KMohZaid@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Oh so our ancestors real name was alien?

[-] mustGo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aliens hate white people. Everyone else got incredible temples, statues and monuments from them. The whites only got anal probes.

florida-cracker posadist-nuke

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago
[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

michael-laugh one of my all time favorites right here. 99% of pseudo-archeology/ancient aliens stuff is just this

[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 3 points 1 year ago

Nice try.

Everyone knows they were built using ancient trading cards.

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Life is fair somehow. I'm sure that future Alien archeologists will imply our extinction to some unclear natural phenomenon, because

" No civilization would be so stupid to do all of that to themselves"

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

aaah - she's taking a photo. I was wondering what she was shoving in her face. The bottom part is already an ancient pic in itself.

[-] spark947@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] HowMany@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Fifty years later "Fred who?"

[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Sooo ... How did they do it? Not with ramps. Not with triangular cranes. Not with aliens, so much is for sure, but how? Tell me.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Why couldn't it have been ramps?

[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They actually don't really know how they did it, there are the voices that say ramps would've been so enormous that they wouldn't have been practical in a realistic sense: https://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-pyramid/pyramid-theories.html There are supporters of the lever theory, even several different methods depending on the progress of the construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques?wprov=sfla1 But as I understand it as a complete layman ( my only qualification would be that my ex girlfriend was an egyptoligist) that the more they examine it, the more voices raise against a solely ramp method. The old egyptian were highly pragmatic & efficient, so I've heard, and the stones were gigantic, sand ramps are at least partly unpredictable & sand is not the stiffest construction material - sooo, I don't really know & as far as I know, science doesn't either, at least no exhaustive answer. So far

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] jandar_fett@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wet sand, along with pulleys and lots and lots of man power, and using the Nile to float stones from upstream to the building site. More complicated than that, but yeah.

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