To start a conspiracy theory thread about the pyramids?

Ancient civilizations were pretty advanced though weren't they? We didn't think they were for a long time because of Christianity - both the AD/BC nonsense but also because we lost a lot of knowledge due to Christians - but they understood geometry, astronomy, physics etc.

I expect Stonehenge slabs are pretty weighty.. Aliens too then, obviously.

Ah, but is he though? An “HR Manager”? See, Doctor Who and Rose thought that the cabinet were people but they were lizards.

Whoooo ….

With enough ropes and pulleys you can lift pretty much anything.

The trick is to get the top-most block in place first then you can use that to lift everything else up to meet it. That's why pyramids are pointy - you start with one block at the top and work downwards from there. It's obvious when you think about it.

TBH I could buy into this theory, why not - millions of people believe in various gods and religions without any proof!

So I think it could be believable that ancient humans (aliens) came and built the Pyramids as a way to mark Earth whilst also leaving some knowledge to be found.

Maybe we are one of their experiments

There’s a view that there might have been an advanced, ancient civilisation & some kind of cataclysmic event that wiped out all evidence.

But for some utterly incomprehensible reason, that advanced, ancient civilisation was not Ancient Egyptian? -Yep, more gullible drivel...

A lot of this conspiracy theory stuff is based on a concept that only white Europeans had any culture or technology

Egyptian society predates many societies so it’s not inconceivable their technology did

so no, I don’t believe conspiracy theories that are based on the idea that before’white men’ existed no ideas did.

I have an archaeology degree. I wouldn't come and tell your husband how to do HR (but I probably could after five minutes on the ACAS website, or I could get ChatGPT to do it). He's a tit.

I just wondered how common this way of thinking is, that’s all,

Well, among people who can actually think logically and rationally it is not common.
With gullible idiots, it is quite common.

It is hurting people. It's denying reality, it's denying history,.it's refusing to acknowledge the incredible achievements of earlier civilisations in favour of stupid "aliens did it" theories and it's the slippery slope to the kind of deranged conspiracy theory brain rot that leads us to the present state of politics all over the world.

There’s a view that there might have been an advanced, ancient civilisation & some kind of cataclysmic event that wiped out all evidence.

Does your husband understand how wheels and rolling work? Or the sheer magnitude of slaves the Egyptians had?

But believing in ascientific shite because it's on YouTube is kinda scary. Aliens built the pyramids, vaccines are trying to kill us all, cancer can be cured by intravenous broccoli, whatever.

I don't know about the pyramids - I'll leave that to Bradely Walsh - but didn't all those US air force lieutenants suddenly start talking to Congress about aliens a couple of years ago? What happened with that?

Is a bit. It's obviously a light hearted Friday night chat and you've decided to react as if she reversed her car into your car in the car park when you could have kept swiping down the topics.

I disagree.

Blimey. Bit of an overreaction there.

So your husband doesn't believe it's possible thst some humans on our planet were capable of building the pyramids but that Aliens from out of space did it and that's more plausible?

I get it is light-hearted but it still makes no sense, there is no proof it is aliens but he beleives there is somewhere out there with creatures with enough brains to arrive on earth and decide to buid pyramids and we dont know where they are now?

People believe the earth is flat doesn't make it flat

Is this the documentary narrated by Brian cox?

FFS.

I have lost faith in humanity - who the fuck can believe such utter shite?

But why aliens? None of that means it is aliens

Re: 1 - wouldn’t that depend on how long it took?