• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Ok he’s finally triggered me. As an engineer, no. We absolutely can build pyramids. At least technologically. Financing it isn’t happening. But we can build pyramids on the size of the great pyramid without modern technology even. It’s impressive sure, but it’s not like people of the past were idiots, they just had less tools at their disposal, and better tools are great for inventing even better tools.

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      9 months ago

      As you said financing it isn’t happening, but it would be hilarious to quietly build a 1:1 replica on The Moon. Conspiracy Theorists would have aneurisms trying to sort everything out.

      You’d need a huge tarp painted to look exactly like your building site, so that it just appears fully built one day.

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      Yeah I’m so tired of hearing that “We can’t build the pyramids even with the technology of today” because that’s just a bullshit statement with nothing supporting it. It is just to try to dismiss actual reality in order to prop up “It was aliens obviously” that has zero evidence.

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        9 months ago

        I saw a documentary where they built a scaled down pyramid with a smaller workforce in a few months with ancient technology. The numbers scaled with the numbers that are the consensus of archaeologists for the size of the workforce and amount of time needed to built the Great Pyramid.

        So not only could we do it with modern technology, we could do it with ancient technology. We just don’t want to spend the money on that because it makes more sense to build other things.

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        9 months ago

        Right wingers have nothing but bullshit statements with nothing supporting them. They operate on the principle that they can produce bullshit faster than reasonable people can debunk it.

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        9 months ago

        There’s actually a belief that the pyramids weren’t built by slaves, but rather paid workers during the seasons when fields couldn’t be worked.

        In the modern era we’d call it a job program.
        Government needs something done, unemployed workers need to be kept busy for social order, and fed so they’re ready when the fields are workable again.

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          There is evidence of a levy based job program, with wages paid in food, not coin, for some pyramids.

          So, you know, forced labor.

          Also, they would still have used regular slaves, because that’s literally what slaves are for, and the fuckin things were built over a period of a thousand years.

          Do you honestly think your “job program” looked the same that entire period?

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            9 months ago

            No? Why so hostile? I’m literally referring to other people who know more than I do on the topic.

            Do you have some particular attachment to it being slave labor? I just thought it was an interesting thing that the common conception of how they were built is believed to be incorrect by experts.