To start a conspiracy theory thread about the pyramids?

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Built by the G’ouald to land their spaceships on

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I know …. that was the point.

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Aha! (quoth the husband): Egyptian ancients worshipped cats, and THEY generally lack opposable thumbs too!
Therefore those weird-hand aliens could easily have been living among the higher castes, imparting advanced engineering knowledge in exchange for accommodation (after landing their multi-dimensional spacecraft near Thebes, they found they were stuck there, because they couldn't operate their phasers to get back in and leave, since their lack of useful thumbs the buttons refused to co-operate).

Even the Egyptians’ achievements were preceded by peoples with advanced methods with which to calculate and predict the position of planets to an exquisite degree of accuracy.
The Neolithic farming people in ancient Ireland, circa 4500 BCE, built vast tombs and other monuments (with beautiful abstract stone carving whose distinctive designs are still employed all over the globe) wherein sacred chambers would be pierced by the rising solstice sun.
That depended on incredibly close calculations, and without even a toy telescope!
(This expertise wasn’t known only to Ireland of course. Other kindred tribes in northern Europe were working on a similar path. It’s merely that Ireland’s great Neolithic sites have survived particularly splendidly. No flag waving here!)

This feat of engineering, before the erection of the Great Pyramids, must be the ancient equivalent of Von Braun’s precise and visionary calculations landing men on the Moon.

The Egyptians were very advanced mathematicians (see the Rhind Mathematical papyrus); same with medicine. Mummification taught them about human anatomy and there is even evidence of prosthetic toes as well as trepanation as a pp pointed out. This was a civilisation that lasted 3000 years-longer than ours has done. But all civilisations rise and fall and that knowledge is then absorbed and appropriated by the incoming forces (Greeks then Romans).

Not sure what your point is?

We have ancient Egyptian mathematical texts and architectural plans. They had a standardised measurement system. They had schools and apprentices.

I saw something a few months back stating that the Egyptians just found the pyramids ready built and used them for what they wanted

He needs to spend less time online and more time in the real world, ideally developing some critical thinking skills.

There is currently an entire exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum dedicated to the skills of ancient Egyptian craftspeople. It includes explanations and artefacts demonstrating their expertise and how they achieved precision.

Maybe your husband could attend to try and break the conspiracy spell. If he can't get there in person, the exhibition catalogue is excellent. Both are produced by genuine experts who have dedicated their careers to studying this.

https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/made-in-ancient-egypt

https://curatingcambridge.co.uk/products/made-in-ancient-egypt-exhibition-catalogue

Those Old Testament ‘Bible folk’ lived according to countless beliefs which must have appeared wacko to outsiders by, say, Caesar’s day.
That they apparently hadn't got the hang of this here water cycle* doesn’t mean that nobody else around in the first millennium BCE had much of a clue about anything as well.

*Maybe the prophet just hadn’t been paying attention in his school days, of course, nor on the outward bound course where everyone ran riot while ostensibly looking at evidence of glaciation in the landscape (bit of autobiography there, folks!)

True but the architects still needed to do the maths.

I don't think they are even real, just stacks of cardboard boxes.

Don't subscribe to any Alien theory, but believe in a civilisation pre pharaonic. The geology of sub saharan Africa does support the lush lands to the west and this would support a climate crisis and displacement of people. Much of the early dynasties borrowed and recycled buildings and learning. We've maybe only skimmed the surface. Look up the Osireion and fall down the rabbit hole of how much we just don't understand or can explain today.

No way. They have stood for millennia.

Having read about new builds, I wouldn't put money on them lasting the decade.

War, and rising water levels.

It does rather.

Yeah because that’s what undermines the alien theory. Not the fact that not all aliens have opposable thumbs.

Agree, and as evidence I suggest Hyperloop.

When they done the first competition, they had a team, from a Berlin Uni I think. who entered a vehicle that carried tanks of compressed gas, in order to create the " hockey table air cushion", as described by Musk in his "white paper".

How none of the Engineers figured out that an air cushion in a near vacuum tube was not a good idea just blows my mind.

Beware of vapourware I say. It sucks in many who should know far better.

Certainly in terms of how much brain-wasting codswallop has been latched on to in order to fill the vacancy.
GK Chesterton too warned about this mad pressure now to embrace all kinds of everything, giving free rein to credulousness.
Even super-smart scientists have managed to believe ten impossible things before breakfast while spending the day designing the most far out and epoch-making possibilities in aeronautics, for example.
It’s not all just dim bulbs proclaiming that they are Wiccan witches and waffling on about their magic ‘practice’.

You ever heard of Godwin's Law? It's the one that says in any online discussion regardless of topic, eventually someone will reference Hitler.

This is the equivalent - in any Mumsnet thread regardless of topic, someone will eventually reference trans people. Maybe we should call it Justine's Law.

Humans who lived 4,000 years ago weren't grunting idiots covered in shit. They were just as clever and inventive as modern humans. Their knowledge of architecture and maths was extremely advanced. If it hadn't been for those distructive Romans who burnt down the Egyptian libraries at Alexandria, we would still have all the blueprints and plans showing how they were built.

The Romans were absolute bastards at propaganda and smear campaigns against foreign civilisations, they wanted to erase the Egyptian empire, and all the progess and advances they'd made with it. What's really dissapointing is that it seems to have worked, everyone is still going on about aliens, despite the fact that we do now know how the pyramids were built. It's pathetic, but shows how the lazy human mind would rather believe a fantastical lie than understand that some people that lived 4,000 years ago were just way smarter than you.

Doesn't hold water anyway, because it’s rare that we witness experts spouting attitudes and theories which the dogs in the street sneer at.

To quote you : "It really interests me that our knowledge now is stored digitally, electricity dependent. What would survive a cataclysm now?"

A massive amount would survive.

As a thought experiment, lets randomly pick a few tens of thousands of people, and beam them to a new empty planet, a copy of earth. They go naked, take nothing.

The knowledge we have accumulated goes with them in their heads. The farmers would find animals and plants for hair and fibers, the spinners and weavers would get to work, the builders would build, the paper makers would get making, the geologists searching. and so on.

And they write stuff down to record their combined knowledge, and because they know about the scientific method, gaps would soon be filled.

Of course, such an experiment in real life would need space aliens to do the beaming :-)