aLiEnS!!1

For some reason people seem to think they’re fundamentally smarter than people were back then.

Yeah, you may have technically had a better education, but you’re not inherently more intelligent than the average person back then, and a genius from that time is still miles ahead of you.

Yeah they had less lead in their environment. They probably were actually smarter, just had less access to foundational knowledge
- Less lead, but probably more malnutrition and disease.
Yeah, it's been linked to systemic racist thought patterns (which are often unintentional but should be acknowledged). I explain it to people like this: take a handful of sand and turn your fist so that your palm faces perpendicular to the ground. Now release the sand slowly... What shape does it form? It isn't rocket science.
- Ancient aliens literally has Nazi origins. They didn't just have race-science, but race-history. I guess you could call their thinking ancient-Aryans because they believed that impressive structures built by brown people must have been led by a Northern European diaspora who eventually vanished because of race-mixing.
  You can watch the History channel all you want, but nobody is going to question the Parthenon or the Colosseum. Stonehenge is the only one I can think of where Aliens had to help white people.
- So you're saying the pyramids are just giant rocks piled on top of each other?
  If so, then what was dropping them and how could the intricacies inside the pyramids be possible if they were just dropped on top of each other?
- Mind blown
- I was thinking "three ridges" first 😅 (I imagined the sand running between the four fingers of my semi-closed fist)
I probably didn't have as good an education as the highest educated classes in most ancient Egyptian dynasties.

Egyptians didn't just decide "hey, let's build a pyramid". Mastabas were first, the shape of a Pyramid evolved later.
Not to mention that there's a few faulty pyramids (e.g. Bent Pyramid which were finished quickly or all together abandoned before completion.
Merer forgot to mention aliens in his diary too.
But hey, aliens did it. They couldn't just land on Earth. Their ships were designed to land on a Pyramid because that's how intelligent race would build their spaceships. Don't question it, just trust the specialists (who wrote books!).
Anyway, for anyone interested in Ancient Egypt, the best thing out there (I think) are Bob Briers lectures also available on Audible.
- The bent pyramid may not have been faulty, but instead had a different internal layout because of it's use in cult worship rather than only burial.
  Great video from History for Granite archeologist on the subject.
- Lowe's definitely made lots of USD getting the pharaohs to think the pyramids were a good idea
But imagine the size of the lever. And how would they haul it on top of the pyramid? Wouldn't we have found traces of a 500m long lever ?
- you mean like they lifted the rock from the ground , all the way up in one trip?
  sounds good enough for me. I bet they didn't, they had the aliens lower it with antigravity technology

Pretty sure the Egyptians were smart enough. But the European cathedrals cannot be explained w/o aliens

Great Wall of China? Come-on, no body can do that. And its not aliens, its GOD, who show favors protecting his favorite people, the Chinese.
Not to mention the Chrysler tower. Def aliens

The constant barrage of Joe Rogan clips of idiots claming it was impossible to move these huge stones over those distances with the tech at the time was what drove me to disable YouTube shorts.

You can disable shorts??
I need to do that. I get stuck in a loop of watching them, and 90% of them just piss me off anyway.
- Honestly, the first and arguably most important step is recognizing how much of online content is specifically designed to get a reaction out of you, primarily in the form pissing you off.
- i turned off watch history. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725.
  now i dont get any recommendations from youtube and only watch what i am interested in.
- There's probably a way to do it in browser with ublock origin or another extension.
  On android, ReVanced.
- I use ReVanced on my phone and it has an option to hide shorts permanently. In the browser I use an extension for that, there are multiple ones.
The creation of the feature is what made me disable shorts. If I wanted vine then I'd go back to 2013.
- Hey take that back. Vine and 2013 were marvellous times

Lifting it is like 1/100th of the challenge. Moving it across hundreds of miles, cutting it, getting it to the top of the pyramid, and setting it in place are all bigger problems than simply lifting the stone.

I think they started at the top and then built down
- they were just trying to find the upper block limit after hitting bedrock
Slavery: It get shits done.
Moving material gets done via cart, or rolling on top of logs. I had heard various theories for how they got the big bricks up, from rolling up a dirt pile (put into place by, you guessed it.) to building a waterproof chute with the bricks in it on a raft, and just filling the chute with water to make the raft go up.
- The pyramids were not built by slaves.
  https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt
- The masonry had to have been done by professionals. The blocks fit together with such precision. Even today it would be an architectural feat to be able to cut and place 15+ ton blocks with millimeters-thick tolerances.
Lifting is the hard part, you can move blocks short distances on rollers, long distances on barges, really short distances by a dozen men pushing
If you take the heaviest stone and divide it by a reasonable weight to walk long distances- say 20lbs, you find you need a few thousand people to carry one stone. You need several thousand ropes for each worker, but again each rope only needs to lift 20 lbs of the whole.
Modern estimates put the number of workers at 10,000. So they just had to carry them.
It's no wonder they didn't document it. Lift stone and walk. What's the big deal?
He who cast the first stone built the pyramid
Nobody has so far given you a serious answer, so:
Cutting - They only had IIRC bronze, which is not enough on its own to cut through the granite. However using sand to add friction makes it cut significant faster/easier.
Moving miles - Boats are incredibly capable of carrying heavy loads with minimal energy expenditure to move said boat. Using logs and levers also goes far.
Getting to the too of the pyramid, that's a little more of a mystery. But there is evidence they included ramps within the structure as they built the bigger ones as they went. And IIRC the smaller ones had pulley systems going through the center.
It doesn't require fancy tech, just of patience and application of basic physics.
Here is a guy using some of the basic movement techniques in his backyard with multi ton stones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewtm1s02Ih8

But we all know the lever was invented by Jayzus Christ in America when Washington and Lincoln were reading the Bible and praying together!

Also, ramps.

Also, boats!
- Were block and tackles a thing in that time too?

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world,"

A couple years ago my chemistry teacher told my class that the Egyptians had really advanced technology (technology even more advanced than our own) thousands of years ago but it all got lost because they started a nuclear war

Edit: she told us that the evidence was that there were smartphone paintings

Sounds like he was sneaking sniffs in the flammable cabinet a little too often.
Pfff I'm sorry but no, it was the cats.
You see cats have powers similar to Telekinesis. Why do you think they choose rivers surrounded by deserts to start the first civilizations. Sandboxes everywhere they please.
But one dark day the Faraó Ramses forgot to refil the food pile because and I quote "but it still had food from yesterday".
This one mistake doomed humanity to the eternal silence treatment.
(and that's why his tomb sucked, his was the first that humans actually had to build)
I do really enjoy the theory that the great pyramids are actually industrial reactant chambers.
She must go to some good parties.

“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ”

Archimedes

Actually I was listening to a podcast that explains this. They didn't have levers yet. They did have other devices but no lever.

But others have levers

Ancient alien theory is extremely racist and I am shocked people don't reject it on those grounds alone.

Top text, they built it
Bottom text, aliens built it
Maybe everyone dislikes humans as much as the aliens

Friendly reminder the Mayans had a highway

The great pyramid of Giza weighs around 6 million tons https://weightofstuff.com/how-much-does-the-pyramid-of-giza-weigh/

An average human can apparently develop about 200N https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/push1.html

Meaning that an average human would need a lever about 3×10^8 m long (considering a 1 metre load arm) to move the pyramid.

Do you find this credible?

ETA: some people think I'm serious. This is quite the flabbergast.

Don't worry I got what you were putting down. People can be very reactionary with their downvotes here, if your joke is too subtle it can fly over their heads.
It made me smirk! For my reference, how many zeros is that (I'm shit at maths but want to try and imagine such a long lever protruding into deep space)?
- 8 zeros, so 300 000 kms (but I've probably messed up somewhere)
  WhERe woUlD yUo fINd a TReE tHaT BIg????
I'm going to go out on a limb and say i don't think they found the pyramid whole and moved the entire thing. I think they took small pieces, possibly block shaped and moved those one at a time
- I would never have thought of that! But I still don't understand how these satanic Duplo work, so who am I to judge
The ancient Egyptians utilized neither wheels nor work animals for the majority of the pyramid-building era, so the giant blocks, weighing 2.5 tons on average, had to be moved through human muscle power alone. But until recently, nobody really knew how. The answer, it seems, is simply water. Evidence suggests that the blocks were first levered onto wooden sleds and then hauled up ramps made of sand. However, dry sand piles up in front of a moving sled, increasing friction until the sled is nearly impossible to pull. Wet sand reduces friction dramatically beneath the sled runners, eliminating the sand piles and making it possible for a team of people to move massive objects.
https://daily.jstor.org/scientists-have-an-answer-to-how-the-egyptian-pyramids-were-built/
You're gonna need a bigger load arm. The pyramid is way more than a meter across.
- How much more? One metre, tops?

I know how they're built because I watch Witual. Internal ramp theory babeeee!

Nah, we all know the Great Pyramids were part of the “Giza Mass Autism Array” fired during the Finno-Korean Hyperwar. RIP Finnish social skills

were part of the “Giza Mass Autism Array”
*will be part of
remember that the Finno-Korean Hyperwar is going to have been the war where we first learn how to manipulate chronodirectionality.

You've cracked vertical lifting, now onto moving blocks a thousand miles from the quarry!

Fig. 1
- I stand corrected. It all seems so obvious, why do people still disagree?

Now find sticks or stick assembly strong enough to lift a few tones of stone without breaking at the rotation center

Stick assembly is the key thing.
You're not going to find a thread strong enough to pull a few tonnes of stone, but you can easily pull it with a large number of ropes pulled by a few hundred people.
Similarly, a single 8x8 beam as a lever arm would just snap, but a dozen 8x8 beams as lever arms for a dozen levers probably wouldn't.
Here you go.
I'm not saying those are the exact techniques that were used to build the pyramids, but they demonstrate that massive stones can be easily lifted and accurately placed using only "primitive" resources and leverage.
There is no guarantee that the lever would break in any position as particular as the pivot point.